Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Monday, May 25, 2015
60-ish%
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Monday, May 18, 2015
Progress
There are other things in the works, but it's been a long day and there will certainly be cause to write entire posts about them later (spoiler- I'm doing Tour de Fleece again- I just have to get this blanket done).
I better get knitting!
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Harry Potter House Cup
Once again, I have found another thing to take up my crafting time. Someday I will learn to be happy with one main project at a time...someday. Until then, I have joined the Harry Potter Knitting/Crochet House Cup group on Ravelry. It's a group that posts Harry Potter themed "classes" for each term (three months), sorts crafters into houses, and calculates points based on completed projects according to "class" theme to name a House Cup winner. Good fun for HP nerds and those who need project ideas and motivation to finish them.
So this term I am NQFY, or Not Quite First Year. It's a classification for those new to the group or who are starting after sorting so they can learn how everything works and not have quite as much pressure since they don't earn points for their house. They can still do everything, just no points, we'll see how it goes, but I may just stay here for a few terms.
Anyway, this term I am "taking" transfiguration. This month the theme, briefly, was unusual colors. Either a color you wouldn't normally use or a project that might not usually lend itself to THAT color. I tried to do both. Clearly I know what colors I do and don't normally use, but I also tried to pick a project that didn't inherently match the colors. So here's a shot of the mostly finished project drying/blocking after being washed.
It's the Oslo Cairo hat in a peachy pink and a graphite grey/silver color. These are yarns that other people picked out for me, and while I have always liked the silver, I just couldn't find the right project for it. Tiny picked out the pink when she was 3...yeah. But together I think they look pretty good.
The pattern itself is inspired by Egyptian hieroglyphics using a Norwegian style hat pattern. Very fun to knit -though it's originally in Spanish and the English version is basically a chart with notes on how many stitches to cast on, not too hard to figure out and totally do-able, but its good to go into the project knowing that- , and I didn't think silver and pink exactly matched the concept so that fit the "class".
Otherwise, the blanket is going well. I finally go caught up from being sick and having family visit in March. I'm even a few days ahead of schedule which is what gave me time to work on this. Though the new plan, as long as I stay ahead of the game, is to knit the blanket during the week and work on other projects over the weekend. Hopefully that will let me finish spinning that amazing red mohair and I won't get too bogged down by the blanket. I am about half way through it, and it is looking quite nice if I do say so. Some k/p transitions are still a bit loose, and it's coming out a bit smaller than I had hoped, but hopefully blocking it will help (?).
I guess that's about it for now. I should probably try to get a few more rows done on the blanket, especially when you consider that the hat was only 23 fewer stitches per row, and I finished that in 3 days, so here's hoping I can get 50+ rows done on the blanket this week at least...yeah right.
So this term I am NQFY, or Not Quite First Year. It's a classification for those new to the group or who are starting after sorting so they can learn how everything works and not have quite as much pressure since they don't earn points for their house. They can still do everything, just no points, we'll see how it goes, but I may just stay here for a few terms.
Anyway, this term I am "taking" transfiguration. This month the theme, briefly, was unusual colors. Either a color you wouldn't normally use or a project that might not usually lend itself to THAT color. I tried to do both. Clearly I know what colors I do and don't normally use, but I also tried to pick a project that didn't inherently match the colors. So here's a shot of the mostly finished project drying/blocking after being washed.
The pattern itself is inspired by Egyptian hieroglyphics using a Norwegian style hat pattern. Very fun to knit -though it's originally in Spanish and the English version is basically a chart with notes on how many stitches to cast on, not too hard to figure out and totally do-able, but its good to go into the project knowing that- , and I didn't think silver and pink exactly matched the concept so that fit the "class".
Otherwise, the blanket is going well. I finally go caught up from being sick and having family visit in March. I'm even a few days ahead of schedule which is what gave me time to work on this. Though the new plan, as long as I stay ahead of the game, is to knit the blanket during the week and work on other projects over the weekend. Hopefully that will let me finish spinning that amazing red mohair and I won't get too bogged down by the blanket. I am about half way through it, and it is looking quite nice if I do say so. Some k/p transitions are still a bit loose, and it's coming out a bit smaller than I had hoped, but hopefully blocking it will help (?).
I guess that's about it for now. I should probably try to get a few more rows done on the blanket, especially when you consider that the hat was only 23 fewer stitches per row, and I finished that in 3 days, so here's hoping I can get 50+ rows done on the blanket this week at least...yeah right.
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