I Love U Mom Dishcloth

I made this dishcloth for my mom for Mother's Day. An easy knit but it felt good to be able to send it to her.



Pattern: I Love U Mom

Hat for Bella

Made this little hat for Bella (my niece) and added a pink ribbon through the eyelet holes for a little extra decoration. (Made for Christmas)

Blanket for Sofia

I found this pattern online and loved it, so I knew that it was the one for Emily’s baby. Emily is allergic to wool, so I decided to go with a cotton yarn. The yarn isn’t quite as soft as I wanted it to be, but I’m hoping that washing it will take care of that.

After something like 75+ hours of work, I finally finished this blanket on March 16 - the baby is only something like 3 months old now, so I didn't do too badly with the timing (okay, so I started it in the summer and so it did take a rather long time to finish).

Owl Hat

Another hat going into the silent auction. This time I used size 8 needles, rather than the listed size 7 (since the last hat I knit with 7s turned into a child-size hat). And the hat turned out quite nicely and fits perfectly with the size 8s. It's supposed to be an owl hat - the cable pattern forms little owls, which I think are actually visible (though I'm not sure if people would pick out the owls without knowing to look for them).

Used Cascade 200 superwash - I had some left over in the Ravenclaw blue color, so that's what it is.

Green Irish Hiking Scarf

I had made an Irish Hiking Scarf for myself (I love it!) and so I decided to make one for the Comitatus silent auction. While gaming, I've been knitting on the scarf (the pattern is easy to follow so I don't have to concentrate very much on it). Well, one of the gamers has been commenting on the scarf and how much she loves it and that she'll definitely be bidding on it in the auction. I know I should probably leave it for the auction, but she really seems to love it. And handknitted pieces are things that I'd really like to go to an appreciative home - I probably spent well over 30 hours on this scarf. And her birthday is tomorrow. I finished the scarf today - perfect timing. So tomorrow at game night, she'll find the scarf all for her without having to worry about losing it to someone in the auction. (I'll just have to make some other projects to make up for this one.) Oh, and this one is made out of Malabrigo as well!

Green Cable Hat

This hat didn't quite turn out as planned. Oh it looks quite lovely and I'm happy with the way it turned out except for one bit - the size. It's a wee bit smaller than I had planned. That's what I get for not doing a test swatch to check my gauge. It should fit a young child quite nicely, though, so I'll be putting it in the Comitatus silent auction. (And the yarn is - you guessed it - Malabrigo!)

Dice Bag

On Thursday nights this semester, I've been playing D&D - a first for me, but I wish I had discovered it earlier because I love playing! I got a set of beautiful dice for my birthday and needed a bag to carry them in. So here it is - made out of a lovely purple Malabrigo, the oh-so-soft wonderful yarn that I love most.

Ravenclaw Scarf

A friend on a forum I frequent showed some pictures of the Harry Potter Festival she went to in honor of the release of the 7th book. She was dressed as a Ravenclaw and had entered a contest for a free wand (nice hand carved wood) and won! She said that her costume was complete except for a scarf. So I decided that I wanted to help her complete her costume (she'll be wearing it for future events) and got to work on a Ravenclaw scarf.

From the tie she was wearing, it looked like the POA-style scarf was the way to go. The Charmed Knits book said to knit it flat in a 1x1 rib. I did start out that way but I just didn't like the way it looked. So I adjusted it to the tube stockinette scarf like the Gryffindor one that I made. Much better! I wasn't too keen on the thin stripes - changing the yarn colors (even wrapping the yarn instead of cutting it) that frequently was just not a lot of fun. But I watched several TV shows and listened to a couple of audiobooks and the scarf is finished! I'll be mailing it off tomorrow (it's a surprise!), and hope that it works with her costume. (ETA: The scarf arrived and she is very happy to have it!)



Details:
Yarn used: Cascade 220 Superwash in Blue (#813) and Grey (#816)
Needles: Size 8 circular (16")
Pattern: from Charmed Knits

Gryffindor Hat

Although I'm still working on the Quidditch sweater, I felt the need to work on a smaller project for a while. Since I had some yarn left over from my Gryffindor scarf, I decided to try a Gryffindor hat to go with it. It was a pretty quick knit and I'm quite pleased with how it turned out:



And since you can't really get a good idea of what it looks like just sitting on a flat surface, here I am wearing it:

Gryffindor Scarf

I'm so excited to have finished this project. I had seen this pattern online, but I had not gotten around to doing it. Then a couple of weeks ago, a new knitting book came out full of Harry Potter patterns (Charmed Knits) and I decided to work on a bunch of Harry Potter projects, starting with a Gryffindor scarf.



The scarf itself was pretty easy to make - it was knit in the round so to get the stockinette look, I just had to knit and knit and knit (no purling or other stitches). That did make it a bit boring to work on at times, but by remembering what I would have at the end, I was able to keep up with it.



The fringing was a new technique for me but it wasn't that difficult. Of course I did run into my usual problem with binding off too tightly so that one end was not as wide as the other, which affected the fringe. If you count, you can see that one side has two more pieces of fringe than the other because one side just held more. Oops! I really do need to start binding off using a large needle to see if that will work for me.



So here's the scarf on me. It's the height of summer right now so I won't be needing it any time soon (nor do I want the weather to get colder - I can wait to wear it). Sorry about the photo being dark - I used a mirror so couldn't use a flash.



Next up for a scarf is a Slytherin one for Jarrett. I also plan to make house socks, Quidditch socks, a Quidditch sweater, and smaller scarves to be used as bookmarks. And that's just what I have yarn for - there's plenty more patterns to be found in the book!

Edited August 16, 2010 to add what yarn was used.

Yarn: Cascade 220 Wool in Burgundy (#2413) and Gold (#7827)
Note: The Charmed Knits book has a list of recommended colors for all houses in this yarn, Cascade 220 Superwash, Plymouth Encore, Lang Jawoll Sport, Knit Picks Essential, Jaeger Matchmaker DK, Brown Sheep Nature Spun Worsed, and Jamieson's Double Knitting. So it's well worthwhile to buy the book just to get the color selections already done for you.