Crocheted Eyeballs--Amaze Your Friends!

[lwood]

I just realised this morning that I moofed up what was supposed to be an image tag as an anchor (link) tag.

Here is what I wanted to post:



AND! And and and!

I FOUND THE PATTERN!

All right, all you crazy Raven, Odin, and related dogs and cats cats and corvids...let's talk eyeballs.

The pattern makers recommend size 8 perl cotton, with these guys' colorways for the iris. Let me slide some (extremely biased) samples by you:


Degas Blue


Indigo


True Blues

mmmmm eyeballs. with nerves and veins! Yaaaaay!

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In Other News...

While taking the Muni 14 down Mission Street en route to the Mad Scientists' Home, I saw a longhaired cat.

On a leash.

At the other end of the leash was the cat's human.

They were going for a walk. The cat was at a heel. The pair were completely blasé about this.

And the bus rolled on...

-- Lorrie (bogleg boggle!)

Comments

[petranef.livejournal.com]

YAY!

And thank you. :)

Of course, looking at the pattern, I realized that it makes no sense whatsoever to me. I'm a gonna have to find a teacher! ;)

[lwood.livejournal.com]

YAY!

Indeed! YAY eyeballs!

And thank you. :)

You're quite welcome!

Of course, looking at the pattern, I realized that it makes no sense whatsoever to me. I'm a gonna have to find a teacher! ;)

Well, I rather liked this book (http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Idiots-Knitting-Crocheting-Illustrated/dp/1592574912)--best introductory knitting book I've yet seen, and it got me warmed up on crochet, too.

Oh, and if you go to worsted weight yarn instead of the relatively fat perl cotton that's advertised, you get something about bowling-ball sized.

-- Lorrie

[wodandis.livejournal.com]

I was gonna say, the irises definitely need to be blue (in my completely unbiased opinion ;P).

Was it a Maine Coon cat?

[lwood.livejournal.com]

I was gonna say, the irises definitely need to be blue (in my completely unbiased opinion ;P).

So I specifically found three good ones; the dilemma would be in deciding which to get...

Was it a Maine Coon cat?

You have your cats, I have mine; big and black, sexy bedroom eyes, and insistent on Helping in any woowoo in my living room.

I love my George.

-- Lorrie

[wodandis.livejournal.com]

If they're supposed to mimic His eye color, I'm torn between the Degas and True Blues. I think I'd go for Degas if I were making them...but I'm not, since I am very far from that skill level as yet. ;)

And hey, I have a whole tribe of cats, three of whom are black; we've actually come to the conclusion that Zerk and Val are more likely part Persian than part Maine Coon, because of the plush, thick fur of even the short-haired cats in that family (actually, medium-haired is more accurate) in that family, plus the color variety). I was only wondering if the cat on a leash was a Maine Coon, since you said he was long-haired.

Not that I've ever, you know, succeeded in getting ANY of my cats to walk on a leash, to date.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

I'm not, since I am very far from that skill level as yet. ;)

*grin* And that's crocheting, not knitting, anyhow. ;)

I was only wondering if the cat on a leash was a Maine Coon, since you said he was long-haired.

*facesmack* D'oh! I forgot about that already. It was not a Maine Coon, I don't think. Dark, big but not HUGE, and fluffy. Not Persian, but rather short of snout.

Not that I've ever, you know, succeeded in getting ANY of my cats to walk on a leash, to date.

Nor mine. However, they do all know their names, and George reliably comes when called.

-- Lorrie

[lwood.livejournal.com]

I lie.

I can decide.

Indigo all the way.

-- Lorrie

[lysana.livejournal.com]

In my part of the world, color makes no nevermind. They all taste good.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Oh, well, you know, for eating, iris color is like the colorful candy coating on M&M's.

For dumpster well-diving purposes, though, there're other rules. That's all.

;)

-- Lorrie

[wodandis.livejournal.com]

Eww. ;P

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Hey, they're easily accessible, you don't need to call in the lupine infantry to deal with that pesky skin, and they're full of juicy goodness.

Mmmm, eyeballs.

-- Lorrie

[dasubergeek.livejournal.com]

You do know that you're a total nutcase and should probably be shut up in an institution, right?

They're YARN. Yarn is not JUICY. Well... not yet, anyway. Someday, maybe they will come out with juicy yarn.

After all they figured out how to get soup in dumplings...

[lwood.livejournal.com]

You do know that you're a total nutcase and should probably be shut up in an institution, right?

Yes, but you still love me.

;)

After all they figured out how to get soup in dumplings...

And they said the Shanghainese were mad! MAD I TELL YOOOOU!

-- Lorrie

[dasubergeek.livejournal.com]

Do you know how frightening it is to be the "normal" one in a group of people? I mean, nobody in his right mind would ever call me "normal".

The Shanghainese may be mad but the Hong Kongers are simply barking... I mean, honey walnut shrimp? And instead of corndogs, you can get corn-battered fish balls in Hong Kong, which are really tasty but cause mental implosion. ("But it's a corn dog!" "But it's an OCTOPUS TENTACLE." "But it's a CORN DOG!" "But it's an OCTOPUS TENTACLE.")

...

O_o

"You got your octopus tentacle in my corn dog batter!" "No, you got your corn dog batter on my octopus tentacle!" "Mmmmmmm!"

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm...

-- Lorrie

[lysana.livejournal.com]

Woot! Pattern!

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Yes!

-- L

[arc-stormcrow.livejournal.com]

Those are disturbing. ::laughs:: Neat!

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

-- Lorrie

[estaratshirai.livejournal.com]

Wheeheeheeheehee!

Thanks for the pattern link.

I'll have to tell Talsorin about the cat - every now and then he claims it would be amusing to try to walk our cats on leashes. I wonder what he'll think when he knows it can actually be done.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the pattern link.

You're welcome!

I wonder what he'll think when he knows it can actually be done.

Well, at this point, it's just hearsay from his PoV...

-- Lorrie

[lwood.livejournal.com]

The eyeballs are....really....weird.

Well, sure!

Coulda been worse, I coulda posted pics of the severed, oogy-looking, fingers that said lady also does...

I miss him lots, even decades later. He lived to the grand old age of 20.

Hail the beloved dead!

-- Lorrie