Woolgathering Dot Net

Three days to go and two more knitters into the fray! Siobhan is hoping to finish her Hufflepuff scarf by the NYC IMAX showing this Saturday (yes, I am going too!). She says that, despite just recently picking up the needles, she found the knitting pretty easy and is enjoying it. Linda T emailed me a question about weaving-in ends for her PoA scarf. I invited her to join the knitalong, so she's in!

All those still hestitating should just do it!

Tonight, I went to hear David Sedaris speak at the Union Square Barnes & Noble. He was funny (as one would expect), but he didn't look like I pictured him. Then again, I always pictured him as a cartoon character (a la Lisa Simpson substituting what Yeardly Smith looks like in real life) because of his voice.

Afterwards, I dragged Mike to a quick sandwich and then down to the New York Stitch'N Bitch to drop off the front of the Flame Sweater. I also picked up this:

More yarn! Deb asked and I volunteered to knit the sleeves. She didn't have the pattern, but I should expect it over the next few days. Some intarsia and duplicate stitching. Fun fun fun!

I didn't do much knitting today, since I spent the bulk of the day at work training. It looks like I'm going to start doing some IA-type work, which is what I'd like to do a bit of, for variety. This evening was the Harry Potter NYC Line Party. I forgot to take pictures, but it was a lot of fun! Harry Potter Fangirls and Fanboys are very pretty and the energy of the crowd at the screening was electric.

I did manage to work on some Salt Peanuts sleeves in the morning. I'm about mid-forearm. I can't help stopping every few rows to wrap the sleeves around my arms and admire my work. I'm so proud of myself: my first sweater is coming soon!

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban opens today!

Can you believe Siobhan is already finished with her Hufflepuff scarf? She just started! It was her first knitting project. She says she plans on finishing one for each house.

Jaime of Daydreaming Reality is making the film version of the Ravenclaw scarf. She finished a Gryffindor in the older design last year.

Eliza B just got her hands on a copy of the magazine and "an insane amount of yarn to play with". Once she finishes her two big projects, she'll be free to start Salt Peanuts. Lucy of Hey Lucy just ordered her Muench Bergamo in Hyacinth. Emmdy of blog-o-rama is knitting hers in Hemp Muench Bergamo. She's swatching this weekend! Paige now has a website called Starfish Knits.

gerbera's air blue Muench Bergamo arrived from Elann and (I think) she's on to the front! Woo hoo! Carrie's yarn just arrived too and is swatching! Jill is finishing up the waist increases. I finished the front and have worked a bit up the arms (knitting both at the same time), but it's on hiatus again while I work on the sleeves for the Flame Sweater (I lied. Not done yet.).

My intarsia is terrible. Actually, that's not true. My intarsia is fine; it's my stranding that is terrible. I make it way too tight when the bridge is more than four stitches and it leads to quite a bit of puckering. I've done the left sleeve (sans the yellow duplicate stitching) and the intarsia for the right. Last night, I decided to do a small section of black with intarsia (instead of stranding) to see how it would come along. In general, such a small section of black would have the yarn carried over, but I was desperate to try to improve the work. It turned out pretty good! So, my intarsia good, my stranding bad. I hope that with my future experiments in fair isle will improve it.

This afternoon, I went into the city early to show Deb my progress so far with the intarsia for the flame sweater. The BUST offices were very nice and I got to see a group of very cool and interesting women. It looks like a place I'd like to work at someday. She looked at my work and said that it didn't look too bad, especially when steamed flat. She showed me the original and its bell-shaped sleeves and maroon-instead-of-red flame. I think the new sleeve shape and color improve the sweater. I can picture a beefcake of a guy wearing it.

I told Deb that I should be done by Thursday and I hope we'll make plans to meet so I can give her the completed sleeves. Then it's back to Salt Peanuts to finish those sleeves! Just call me the sleeve-lady.

After leaving BUST, I went down to Seaport Yarn to acquire the appropriate materials for my newest project: Ron's Animal Cracker Hat from Prisoner of Azkaban.

This is a still from the last trailer of Ron roaring like a lion.

Posted without permission from Warner Brothers

If you look closely, you can see his really fabulous knit hat:

Ditto

At Seaport, I wandered around for at least half an hour, checking out all the solid colored yarn. In the end, I opted for some Debbie Bliss Merino Aran. I think in regards to texture, it is appropriate in size. Plus, the colors were as close as I could get them. I think the two greens are spot-on. I believe the bottom color is a very dark eggplant, topped with a fuscha. I could only find an appropriate dark eggplant in some Zara yarn, so I decided to go with black and fuscha. Debbie Bliss' white is a bit off-white, which is good, but not off-white enough compared to the ecru in the hat. I think that's forgivable. I'll probably utilize the pattern from Stitch'n Bitch, the Hot Head Hat, for the basic structure and decreases for the ribbing. I think I've kind of figured out the pattern.

I will need to swatch it, to see if it looks correct. Hopefully. Hehe. I'll work on it after I finish Salt Peanuts. I expect to be done with the sleeves by this weekend and then I can jump all over this one. I am tickling with anticipation!

Note added June 11th, 2004: Ron's knit hat in the Hogsmeade scenes looks like a chullo, in either a very dark brown or black. I'm leaning towards the dark brown, but I'll need to watch the movie again to make sure.

No new Salt Peanut knitters, but a few updates.

I fixed Emmdy's link (whoops!), so now one can check out her cool website. She's currently have swatching issues (US10? US9?). Hopefully, that will get resolved soon (she thinks it might be due to yarn stretchiness) and she'll be diving into Salt Peanuts! I adjusted the links so that one can see gerbera's updates from her website; she is at the waist decreases of the back. Carrie is also working up the back and loves the drape of the fabric.

Jen updated Clarifications, Adaptations, Corrections and Advice for Knitting Salt Peanuts with my notes regarding the front lace pattern. It's only the first 20 rows, but I think it's illustrative of the lace pattern and how that works in relation to the decreases.

I am back working on the sleeves and I hope to be finished by this weekend (isn't this the third upcoming weekend where I hoped to finish it?).

One new knitter to the HP knitalong: Cindy (from Bartlesville, Oklahoma). She's a relatively new knitter (4 months), but is already a third of the way into a Ravenclaw scarf. She also plans on making a house sweater! Woo hoo!

Some updates from the knitters:
Julia discovers that the PoA scarf is good for mindless midnight knitting. I, too, am generally sorted into Ravenclaw despite my love for Gryffindor colors. I do note that, according to the Hogwarts Sorting Hat Quiz, I am a Gryffindor.
Amysue has worked on it; I wonder if Noah was able to wear it over the weekend.
Siobhan posted a great account of the IMAX showing on Saturday, along with notes about us meeting. She rocks! Check out her scarf.

I finished the duplicate stitching for the flame sweater today.

Woo hoo!

My duplicate stitching isn't too bad and it went really fast; it felt just like cross stitching. There were some bits where the yarn was loose, which causes the duplicate stitching to look loose. I tried to tighten them as best as I could to make it look as even as I could. From about five feet away, I think it looks pretty good.

Now, back to my regularly scheduled Salt Peanuts!

My Salt Peanuts is progressing nicely and I expect to be done with it by this weekend. So far, it looks like I've got a nice pair of long armwarmers.

I think the blend from one ball of yarn to another is pretty good, doing two arms at once, although I think next time, I won't do them on a single circular. I find pushing the yarn from off the cord to the needle takes time and I'm much slower than I want to be. "I'd be done by now if it wasn't for all the pushin' around I have to do!"

I bought myself a click-clack row counter at Seaport Yarns and have been use it to keep track of my sleeve progress. I like it very much; it is easier to use than the turning row counters, although those are more convenient since you can attach them to your needles. Plus, I find the sound it makes quite pleasant.

So many new knitters for the Prisoner of Azkaban knitalong!

Emily of faces the fanfare.only the fool is working on a Ravenclaw scarf. Wow, lots of Ravenclaws!

Luvtocraft of Luvtocraft's creations is currently working on a knitted Gryffindor scarf and will also tackle a Ravenclaw one. She also crochet, so check out her crochet pattern for the scarf.

Nikki from Woodinville, WA (near Seattle), has two sons that are Harry Potter nuts. She's going to knit one for each: one Ravenclaw and one Gryffindor. She's also a new knitter (welcome to the new knitter club!) and says she'll send pictures when she's done.

Kari of turn to page 394... finished a Slytherin scarf using the first two films' design. Now, she's working on a Gryffindor scarf in PoA colors, influenced by seeing Hermione in the Hogsmeade scenes. She might make a Slytherin one later.

MA of Tales of a Nutty Single Mom was someone I noticed had linked to me and joined the knitalong, but I never received an email from her. I emailed her if she wanted to join and she said yes! It turns out that she was at the NYC IMAX showing too. She's making a Hufflepuff scarf outof Cotton Ease and is making it half the width, since she wants it skinny.

I updated Cindy's link to her journal. She let me know that she works in a library and teaches a weekly knitting/crochet class. Half the girls are knitting HP scarves and they will be displayed at the library in a few months! Woo hoo! I can't wait for pictures!

I spotted a tip sheet for knitting jogless stripes in the round. I need to test it, to see how effective it is, but it looks like a good technique to marry with Lauren's PoA pattern.

Two knitters done! Gloriana and I completed our Salt Peanuts (well, hers more than mine since I still need to find a ribbon and sew down the collar) today.

Check out our buttons!

Gerbera is finished with the back, not yet started on the front (I lied earlier). Jill is almost to the back armholes. Emmdy has gauge! She got her advice from the Knitty message boards: use US10.5 on the knit side and US9 on the purl side. Lucy's Bergamo arrived and she's on-gauge, working on a sleeve.

The Salt Peanuts Saga is Ovah!

Well, not 100% over. I still need to find a ribbon and sew down the edges of the collar, but for all practical purposes, I'm done! I weaved in the ends this afternoon.

(Don't I look way too overheated in the picture? It's hot and humid at the moment. I tried to put in a game face for the camera, but I'm sweltering. I look wilted. My blue-grey shirt and blue shorts don't match the sweater too well.)

I thought I'd be done over the weekend, but I had a hard time with the sleeves due to my wonky gauge issues. Since I varied the pattern for the front, I had to redo the sleeve caps three times to get them right. The first time I followed the pattern. When I discovered they were too long, I undid a section of it, but that still wasn't good enough: the caps were the wrong shape for my needs. So I undid them all the way to the beginnin of the caps and improvised.

My yarn was too varied from the original, so it wasn't an appropriate substitute, now that I've knit with it. I'm considering doing another, this time with the Muench Bergamo; I'd love to see how it drapes. The Cherry Tree Hill yarn is a little stiff, but very warm and I think it will be nice and snuggly in the winter over a long-sleeved shirt. I've still got a whole skein (280 yards) worth of yarn, which I'll probably donate to my sister.

I like it. I don't love it, alas, but I do like it. Plus, it's got that little space in my heart since it is my first sweater. I dare say it looks rather "Weasley"-ish. Hehe. I've got Potter on the brain. I think I'm going to go back to Fiona for the next week, perhaps cast on for my first sock (yes, I am almost a half a month overdue to starting my first pair of socks). I feel satisfied now that I'm done... and I hope not to do another sweater until the fall!

Four years or so ago, I took an introduction to Flash course. I did very well in it, although I never got to really use what I knew, especially at my last job (working with financial institutions doesn't inspire much dynamism in one's websites). For the company I work for now, it would be very useful! So, my boss is paying my tuition for the course and I've been getting back up to speed with my Flash.

The instructors for the course are the same as the first time I took it, so the first assignment was pretty dull. The second assignment required some motion and shape changing. So, I whipped this up!

Pretty cool, eh? Actually, it isn't. It's nothing really whiz-bang cool, but relearning Flash is just like riding a bike. I'm a bit wobbly, but it's coming back... and I love combining my computer and knitting hobbies!

After a few more hours of staring, I think the pattern I originally published was incorrect.

Does this look better?

Those white diamonds are clearly smaller than the white triangles. I think this is closer. It's still not right, though. Notice that the white diamonds are close to touching in the enlarged photograph. Perhaps the white diamonds are flatter (and thus, smaller) than the triangles.

Or, perhaps the hat is decreasing by that point, which would make it much more difficult to recreate the pattern. Right now, I am making the assumption that decreases begin after the design. Hrm. I think I'll be mulling it over and staring at it for a few more hours.

I'm trying not to think about Fiona. So, what better way to distract myself than become a production knitter!

Deb Stoller emailed me with images of the Flame Sweater on a model. She'd pieced it together and corrected an error in the cuffs (the pattern I had didn't indicate a switch from the CC to MC). It looks lovely! I'll not post pictures: I figure everyone can see the completed work when it comes out in the book. She also has about a week and a half to get all the projects together and has asked me for help. I agreed and today I went to the city to pick up what needed to be done:

*An extremely colorful striped poncho needs to be shortened. After much mulling it over with Deb, we decided that I would remove the orange-white-red rows at the bottom and about four rows of the pink above that. I would then reknit the white back in and do one row of red before binding off with the red.
* Two "honeycomb" hats need to have bees sewn on it.
* A knitted butterfly (with crochet edges) needs to be removed from a grey chenile scarf and knitted on a cream chenile one.
* The handles of a bag with an intarsia smoker needs to be knitted, sewn in, and the bag needs to be finished with a lining (never lined anything before... very exciting).
* Two amazing furry hats need to be frogged quite a way (24 rows) to remove an increase that isn't necessary. Then I'll knit it back up.

I walked over to KnitNY afterwards, to pick up some appropriate needles (a large US10 circular for the poncho and a large US6 circular for my Charlotte). When I walked in, a very cute knitter complimented me on my bag and we started talking. Her name is Melissa of Recycle This! and she makes bags out of plastic! She was very cool, down from Albany to see the Phish concert, and a fairly new knitter like myself. We talked for some time about knitting and our projects until her friend arrived and I needed to get motoring back to NJ.

When I was on the train home, I started working on the poncho and frogged up to the pink. By the end of the evening, I had this:

One down, four to go! I had to frog my work once: I only removed three rows instead of four for the pink, so I had to go back and redo it. The pattern is quite easy and I think Ella would love it, if I showed it to her.

I'll work on the projects tomorrow and I hope to do most of them so that I have a majority of the weekend to work on the furry hats. They will be the hardest, since it'll be like unravelling some hardcore fun fur. Plus, the yarn is double stranded, so I think picking through it will be difficult. We'll see. I remain optimistic.

Plus, I hope that this temporary avoidance will make me more eager to get back to my own projects. Crossing fingers!

After I finished the poncho, I was roaring to go today. I managed to:

Finish sewing in the bees to the two honeycomb hats.


I think I like the orange hat better, since I associate orange traditionally with beehives. Plus, the bees are really cute. I wish there was more bees on the hat; the design calls for only seven bees, but I think there should be atleast twice that number to get the full effect from all sides.

Sewed the blue butterfly onto the cream scarf.

Very pretty! I think I will make one for myself, but not in chenile. It will be a wonderful cotton/wool blend for a warm but versatile spring scarf.

Finished one handle of the bag and started on the second. I'm still awaiting instructions on how far from the bag edges I'll place the handles.

Frogged one of the fluffy hats (the white, thus easier, one) most of the way and picked up the stitches. Now I'm untinking, hopefully to the point where there are only 48 or 50 stitches and knitting the 24ish rows back up. This yarn is fabulous to touch and knit with and the hats are adoribly cute. I think I might make one for myself!

So, lots of excitement and my frogged yarn has taken over the living room. I need to make sure I fit in everything I have to do this weekend. Not just the knitting projects, but I've got an assignment due on Sunday for my Flash class. Whee!

New knitters!

Stacey of sheep in the city, a fellow Salt Peanuts knitter, is going with her LYS to the Brown Sheep factory/mill and will buy her Nature Spun for a Gryffindor scarf there! Woo hoo!

Kim of coolwalkingsmoothtalking was taught by her grandmother to knit many years ago and picked up her needles for the first time in years to knit a Gryffindor scarf for herself! Her niece is keen on a Ravenclaw one. This is her first foray into circular knitting. Woo hoo!

Rani from Boston, MA is knitting a her nephew a Gryffindor scarf. She wants to let everyone know "at Patch Palace you can get mini patches for each house or even the Hogwarts patch to put on the scarf. I am awaiting my patch so once I get it I will email again and let you know about the quality of the patch. Be aware though that you have to order 2 or more patches to qualify for free shipping and there is no way to add in shipping at checkout, so read carefully, also you have to scroll down a bit to see the patches, don't click on those links! The people I dealt with seemed very nice though when I only ordered one patch."

A few updates:
I added Kari's link to her website. Very cool! She's got a little more than a foot so far and has worked through two repetitions of the trapped bar pattern. She's using US8 for the new scarf design (she used US7s for her old design scarf).

Check out MA's 'hat'. That makes me want to break out the leftover yarn and make one for myself.

I've completed the two hats.

I have a love/hate relationship with this yarn, ggh's Lara. It's warm and fuzzy and extremely touchable... 100% wool! But, it's hard to undo, really difficult to actually see the stitches, and requires some serious brushing to look fuzzy and furry; the strands are so long that they get wrapped into the stitches and need to be combed out.

I managed to do what I needed to do and they are done!

I like the white hat. Even though I'm not sure if it matches anything in my wardrobe (although it could be a nice compliment to my fuzzy funky black dress coat), it's something that I would like to wear on those warm nights. I even like the pompom tie-ends.

The brown hat has bear ears! So cute!

I've finished sewing the bottom of the red bag together and the two handles, but I'm unclear on how I should sew in the handles... or sew the top edge down for that matter. I'm seeing Deb tomorrow and she'll show me what needs to be done.

Today was a pretty hectic day. My cousin, Kim B, is done with finals and I promised her that I'd get her knitting pretty hardcore once she has the time for it. I knew that I'd be going into the city to see Deb, so I took her along for a quick stop to Seaport Yarns.

Deb told me to unravel the top of the bag, purl a row, and knit three rows of stockinette. The purl row would provide a natural bend in the stitching, so it will be easy to sew it down. Plus, she also provided me with new yarn:

So soft! It's ggh Soft-Kid: 70% Super Kid Mohair, 25% Nylon, and 5% Wool. I'm making the front and sleeves of a sweater with a Union Jack on the cover. Woo hoo! I can't wait.

I brought Kim to Seaport Yarn and bought her six skeins of Debbie Bliss Merino Aran: three balls in two different colors for two kitty hats she's going to tackle. One for her, one for her sister. I told her to do her sister's hat first, so she can get all of her mistakes out of the way on the first hat so hers would be perfect. Hee hee. I got her some Addi Turbos and Britany DPNs in appropriate sizes for the hat as well. I wouldn't be surprised if she's done with it by next week; she's quite fast.

We caught a lot of traffic on the way home, so I wasn't able to show her how to cast off. But, we made plans to meet again tomorrow and I'd show her then.

I spent the evening working on the bag untit I had to do the sewing-up part. I tried, but I could see the pucking from the opposite side and it looked awful. I'll be seeing Deb again tomorrow and she indicated she should help me with it further.

This afternoon, I went to see Kim B and showed her how to cast off while watching the theatrical version of Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. She picked it up pretty quickly. We even started her new hat. Seed stitch! In the round! Fun!

Another trek into the city. This time, I got to get more knitting fun!

* I got the brown and white hats back. My cast-off was way too tight (although I really tried to keep it loose); I need to redo them with a much larger needle.
* I got an uber-cute baby sweater that I need to get snaps and sew them in.
* I got a swatch of sweater that I need to buy a matching button. Hot pink. Whee!

I also got a really great sewing lesson and I think I've got all the knowledge I need to finish the bag.

On my way home, I stopped by Treasure Island, Michael's, and the Rag Shop in search for the proper notions. Other than snaps, I found nothing good. Rats.

I finished the red bag, except for the lining which I still need to purchase (tomorrow!). You can kind of tell which handle end I did first and which I did last: the quality difference is noticable. I also unravelled the brown hat and I casted off with US15s instead of US10.5s. I think it's nice and loose now. I've been instructed not to weave in the ends until the hats get the ok.

I haven't started with the Union Jack sweater yet. No instructions.

On the belief that my little New Jersey town has Everything, I looked up some sewing stores in my town. I decided that "I've Got a Notion" could be right up my alley. I was right. There, I picked up some black lining for the bag and pink buttons for the sweater.

I think they look about right. I was trying to get a match with the hot pink, but all the buttons that matched the bright hot pink were pearly or too fancy. I matched a lot of buttons to the light pink in the swatch, but Deb indicated that she wanted something darker. The buttons I picked are plain and in between the bright pink and the dark pink.

This evening, I hand-sewed the lining into the bag. It looks pretty good! I'm actually pretty proud of the work I did on it. It's something that I hadn't done before and I enjoyed it. I'm looking forward to getting a sewing machine (my birthday present from mama, hopefully) and doing more sewing.

I also sewed the snaps into the baby cardigan at Knit Wits (the local needlework group; most members knit but I've also seen some fabulous needlepoint and quilting and sewing from group members). I received the sleeves for the Soft-Kid sweater (titled "London Calling") today and cast them on. Whee!

I spent the better part of the afternoon and evening in New York City, finishing and knitting away in the BUST offices. What I did:

* Finished up the brown and white hats. My cast-off was good and I weaved in the ends and added the tassels. They are seriously fun hats and I'm really interested in making one for myself.
* Removed the duplicate stitching on the baby cardigan and stitched a new design into place. (For full disclosure purposes, the photograph below is pre-my stitching. The new design is smaller.)

* Deb worked out the "London Calling" sweater pattern and I'm ready to go! She worked it out on knitter's graph paper, which is just brilliant. It reminds me that I need to redo Ron's hat on knitter's graph paper; it will give me a more accurate look at the design so I can compare it with stills from the movie.

"London Calling" an intarsia sweater design. At its worst, I will have to deal with thirteen different yarn sections. Wheeeeeeeee! I'm rather excited about the prospect. I hope to finish the sleeves tomorrow, so I'll have the weekend to work on the sweater front.

My pink buttons were too small at 3/4". They'll need to be upgraded to 1" to fit well with the button holes in the sweater. Rats.

I'm now comin' up for air from working on "London Calling".

I finished the sleeves on Saturday. I didn't get as much knitting done as I wanted, since I had to accompany my relatives to the Montclair Municipal Works compound to dump out some bulky waste that has accumulated from all the construction work they are doing downstairs. Also, my father and cousin wired the house on Saturday, allowing the cable modem to exist downstairs and thus connect the entire house to the Internet. I did manage to buy ten intarsia bobbins in between dump trips. I calculated that working with ten bobbins and three balls of yarn would be appropriate for the project.

Once I finished both sleeves, I cast on for the front of "London Calling", using US15 needles and going down to my US11 circular needle for gauge. I quickly developed the appropriate technique for dealing with the feathery Soft-Kid yarn and thirteen strands:

I would lay out the yarn in a fan-like spread around me. I would always keep the bobbins/balls of yarn in the same position in the spread. When I needed to switch yarns, I would pick up the appropriate bobbin/ball and twist it either over or under the next piece of yarn, returning the bobbin to the same position. This way, I would only be dealing with two pieces of yarn at any one time and the yarn threads wouldn't get tangled. Also, when "turning" my work, I would move myself more than the work, again keeping the threads from tangling. This made the work go relatively quickly.

By this morning, I was already to bust-height (about 2/3 into the design). The pattern called for nine rows of solid red, but after knitting to that point, I realized that it looked too tall and I contacted Deb for clarification. After emailed pictures and phone calls, we reduced the rows to eight and I did a bit of frogging to fix it. I was done by this evening, around 9:30pm, so I'll be going into the city tomorrow to give it to her.

Absolutely fabulous intarsia!

Since the weave is quite open, I couldn't carry any of the yarns behind the work. Thirteen separate pieces of yarn. Fun fun fun!

Weaving in the ends will be a nightmare.

I'm not sure if I'm going to get any more work, but I'm so pleased and happy with what I managed to accomplish. It was challenging, but not too hard that I became frustrated. I would like to knit myself one of these sweaters, except without sleeves, so it would be a cool sleeveless shell that I could wear over a tank top. I bet it would be quite sexy.

Hmm, never thought I'd use the words "Azkaban" and "Goodness" in a row, but anyway, a lot of new knitters and two updates:

I met Kristin, of Lost Geographer, at the Harry Potter IMAX showing. She's best known as being the fabulous associate editor of The Leaky Cauldon, one of the best sources of Harry Potter news. I believe she has one of the few photographs of me in costume. Anyway, she informed me that she's unsure what kind of scarf she'll be working on (either Ravenclaw which is her assigned house or Gryffindor, where her heart belongs), but she's joining the knitalong.

Renata of The Wild Renacerous (who I also know personally as anarchistinde from LiveJournal) has been requested to knit a scarf for a friend. She is joining the knitalong and doing a Ravenclaw à la the book (blue and gold).

Lily of Caprice is a brand new knitter (woo hoo!) and is going to do a Gryffindor scarf. She's got the yarn already and is just waiting for the needles so she can cast on.

Karyn sends her stats...
from: Singapore (teeny tiny tropical island. which is why people always stare when i knit on the bus or train :P)
scarves made: 1 half-sized ravenclaw (with CC initialed), 1 half-sized gryffindor (sold! *grinz*), 1 full-sized gryffindor, 1 full-sized slytherin all in PS/CoS colours.
presently working on: final sleeve of gryffindor quidditch sweater and about to embark on a PoA gryffindor full-sized.

Jesslyn of is this thing on? bit the bullet and is knitting a Ravenclaw, her house colors. She watched the movie and opted to do a scarf in movie colors instead of book colors. (She does like the Slytherin colors though.)

Jenni of A Fuzzy Dream has been knitting off and on for the past year and knitting the PoA scarf will be her first attempt at circular knitting. She is starting out with a Slythern scarf for a friend, but is planning to knit all of the house colors. Woo hoo! (She's seen it atleast five times already. Woah.)

Anne of Yet Another Discalceate Hoyden is about to start Ravenclaw movie version scarf. She's in high school, has been knitting for six years, and is teacking others to knit at her school, so she's got a little knitting community going on!

Mary Jo of VWChick's Knitting Musings is going to do either a Gryffindor or a Ravenclaw scarf, depending on which yarn she picks up. She indicates that she'll probably do both eventually.

Mori is done with her old-style Gryffindor scarf and is starting a PoA thin-but-long tie-like scarf in Slytherin followed by Ravenclaw.

Heather had to frog her Gryffindor scarf and her mother's Ravenclaw scarf because she didn't like them as wide. They've been restarted on smaller needles.