Rats + knitting picture spam

[oyceter]

I am a mean rat mom. I put my rats in a paper bag and carried them around. In my defense, it was a paper bag filled with the leftover paper wrapping that my sub came in, and my rats are extremely fond of paper bags and old sandwich wrappings. I think they would be ecstatic if I ever let them dig through the trash can.








And now, for my two ongoing knitting projects:

This is my very ugly hooded sweater that is now in progress. Look! I seamed the shoulders! I have made actual seams! I feel very proud of myself ;).

The bit on the needle is the larger portion of the first sleeve.


And this is my pretty scarf made from the pattern at Knitty:


I love the yarn, even though it's impossible to work with. It's ok to work with, actually, until you make a mistake (of which I have made many). Then all the long fuzzy bits get all tangled together, making it very difficult to unknit. Gr. Of course, if I paid attention to what I was doing instead of watch TV, I might not make so many mistakes, but let's not go there.

The little flower is the first thing I ever crocheted! It's so round! Sorry. I am still amazed how fast you can change direction in crochet.

Comments

[oyceter]

It was actually not that bad! I've never done lace before, or pretty much anything except knitting and purling, and if you just follow the pattern really carefully, it works fine. My biggest problem was that I'd keep getting distracted and dropping stitches. I'm using Paton's Divine in Chantilly Rose (just got it at Michael's) because it was fuzzy and pink!