Comments: Drowned rats

We loves the scarf, Precious, but we likes the little Shetland ratses even more - raw and wriggling would be best :)

Don't you love it when the universe decides you're its punching bag?

Posted by Robbyn at March 2, 2004 12:07 PM

Recently discovered your blog. You have my sympathies. It's drizzling here in Maine and my hair is big as well.

Question about the wool rats.... Do you wash the rats individually? Do you card the wool or can you just spin the rats?

I love to spin but am not brave enough to actually plan a project. That's why I have lots of cute little skeins of wool (that I don't know what to do with).

The scarf is lovely.

Posted by Melissa at March 2, 2004 1:10 PM

Great scarf - great rats! and I think the universe doesn't hate you as much as you suspect. There are those of us whose hair goes completely flat and limp - a far worse fate than looking like Loretta Lynn!

Posted by ann at March 2, 2004 3:56 PM

we likes it and agrees it is mosssst precious- and if you finish it and write a pattern for it we would love to make one for a fair elvish maiden we know-

in texas 'big hair' is perpetually trendy- move south, way way south, and be stylish when it is humid!

Posted by barb in texas at March 2, 2004 5:06 PM

I love the scarf. Have always loved the shell like pattern you've used for the border. Was thinking of how to use it vertically in a summer vest last week.

Posted by Valerie at March 2, 2004 5:48 PM

Does no one else feel that the shell pattern in the border has an element of asymmetry? It looks pregnant on one side to me. Blocking performs miracles, it's true, but I suspect it's always going to look lopsided. What we loves is that you pulled tails out on all the ratsses for the lovely picture. Tricksy harlot!

Posted by Ken at March 2, 2004 6:25 PM

Is it just me and my computer, or are those "tails" kinda pink? What kinda sick wooly trick is going on here?! ;)

Nice ratses, nummy...

The scarf is nummy too.

Posted by Rana at March 2, 2004 6:51 PM

The fleece rats look especially... how to say this? carcass-like today. Carcass-like, but cleaned carcasses. Little dead rats, with all the innards removed. ;)

Ken - yes, it does look lopsided, but it also looks exactly like a specific shell, which has that thickened edge on the hingy bit. Makes me all nostalgic for my childhood, walking along the beach, picking up shells to take home for display (which undoubtedly drove my mother crazy, as they always drizzled sand everywhere for days).

Actually, the whole scarf reminds me of my childhood. Dunno why exactly - it's not like I was born in the real Olden Days (Ken - shut up!). It just triggers a whole whack of feelings. Maybe this is my madeleines? I can see why Proust wrote that book.

Posted by Lene at March 2, 2004 7:59 PM

This may be an odd question... but... is there a somewhat yellowish tinge to some of the scarf, or is it just the picture?

(Love the rats. They'd make great pets: cute, fluffy, pettable and you don't have to feed them or take them for walks.)

Posted by Julie at March 2, 2004 10:51 PM

Well shucks I looked for KnitLit Too at my Border's last night and they didn't have it! I have 3 more stores to check in town otherwise it will have to be mailorder!

Posted by Anne at March 3, 2004 12:35 PM

A flat iron works WOMDERS for country singer hair (snicker, snicker). I should know--I have suffered with this type of frizzy-can't do anything to it-kind of hair. Trust me! It's worth the $$. :)

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