Picture spam: rats and knitting

[oyceter]

The leaf lace scarf I made for vom_marlowe. The yarn is a hand-dyed silk from ArtYarns, and my camera in no way captures the depth of the color or the subtle variations in it.




I modified the design somewhat to make the columns between the leaves purl instead of garter, so the opposite side would have wavy knit columns.




Ed-rat and Al-rat lazing about.




Ed-rat timidly creeps to the door...




And steals food. I swear, by the way these guys eat, you'd think I was cruelly starving them.




Al-rat! Whiskers!




Ren gobbles down food.




Al-rat steals food.




Al-rat, lurking. He is much fatter now!




Ren pretends he is a blogging rat.




Rats bravely venturing out of the safe blanket. These two guys are so funny! They scamper back under cover at any scary noise (i.e. if I sneeze).




Ed-rat is a little braver than Al-rat, even though Al-rat can beat him up more easily.




Exploring the world of my bed.




Al-rat peeks out.




Rat brothers!




Ed-rat begging for food.








Two rats

Comments

[cynthia1960.livejournal.com]

Lovely scarf, and this Metal Rat says "Squeek!" to your rats...

[oyceter]

Thanks!

[redrose3125.livejournal.com]

Beautiful knitting, and adorable rats!

(Do you mind if I ask what pattern you used?)

[theodosia.livejournal.com]

Me too! That is exactly the kind of pattern I'd like to knit, truly, and I have some excellent silk yarn that's just begging for it....

[oyceter]

Here you go! I like the pattern a lot—easy enough to memorize, different enough to not be boring.

[oyceter]

Thanks!

Here you go! I like the pattern a lot... it's easy enough to memorize, but has enough stuff going on so that I wasn't too bored when I knit it.

[redrose3125.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I'm not queuing it at Ravelry, because I have about 70 other things to make, but I bookmarked it! (Aha! I found you and friended you!)

[larryhammer]

Rats love Love*Com?

---L.

[oyceter]

Yes! Well, I think they wanted to chew on it, but I suppose that is a very ratty form of love.

[chomiji]

Now I know I've been at the office too long ... I was certain that the post on my f-list said something about knitting giant rats! (Perhaps my current re-read of To Ride a Rathorn had something to do with it.)

And that is a truly gorgeous scarf!

[oyceter]

Hahahaha! I wish! And thank you!

[la-vie-noire.livejournal.com]

Eeeeh. I love your fat rats!

[oyceter]

Me too! they are so cute and squishy!

[hysteriachan.livejournal.com]

Rats! ^_^ And that's a gorgeous scarf.

Funny, I just read vol. 1 (and 2-4) of Love*Com today.

[oyceter]

Thank you!

Also, oooo. I want to get my hands on more of Love*Com.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

The scarf is beautiful, and your ratties are so cute! I want to cuddle them and let them scamper all over me.

[oyceter]

You should come visit again and meet them! They are so cute and sweet!

Also, hopefully this time I will know the area better and there will be less contact with urgent care ;)

[delux-vivens.livejournal.com]

beautiful scarf.

rats are... well normally i'm not a big rat person but they look cute.

[oyceter]

Thank you! Also, hee, high praise indeed coming from a non-rat person! ;)

[cychi.livejournal.com]

all of them are beautiful and cute! I think you should try to get a rat action shot too :P

[oyceter]

Hahaha, I know, but they are too fast for me! So twitchy!

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

Ratties! So cute!

[oyceter]

I love their whiskers!

[genarti]

Wow, what a gorgeous scarf!

And AWWWWWW to the rats! So adorable!

[oyceter]

Thank you!

[furikku.livejournal.com]

That scarf is awesome.

Your ratties are awesomedorable.

[oyceter]

Thank you!

Disappointed--

[bellatrys.livejournal.com]

I read that as "rats knitting" and thought "My, what talented ratties--"

...clearly I have not had enough caffeine yet today!

Re: Disappointed--

[oyceter]

Hahaha! I only wish they could knit! Although I wish they would cook for me more...

I know!

[bellatrys.livejournal.com]

For all this talk of "domestic" animals, they're not very good at housework! My cats never have dinner ready, or even the dishes done, when I come home.

(Now I want to do a picture of knitting rats. Maybe one rat knitting, and the other one chewing it up as they go...)