Which House Are You?
To start things off, let me say that I don’t expect this ‘blog’ to be anything great or even noteworthy. But a good friend of mine just began one as a way to relieve some of her stress by writing out her thoughts and feelings. Okay… so I’m not really the huggy, let’s talk about everything type, but I figured… hey a blog can be good for other ways of expression too! Right?
Thus, this is the first post for Spool’s Gold — which will probably be about a great many things. The first and foremost would be my new passion for loom knitting. I’m just not hand-eye coordinated enough to handle anything pointy, I believe. My looms are plastic and sturdy and fairly me-proof, which I’m in love with. I don’t break them, they don’t break me… We live a happy existence together.
For christmas, I believe, I got a set of the round Knifty Knitter looms from my ex-boyfriend’s mother. She was a great old gal. Raised goats and chickens, made her own soap, just got a pair of bulls to raise up for slaughter… And giver of the knifty knitter. If you’ve never heard of them before, you can go to provocraft.com (who makes them) and check them out!
I did a couple of projects at first, a lot of web browsing when one hat unravelled and the other was too short and too thin. Then I discovered a pattern for the loom I have for two variations of the hogwarts scarves. Yay! My good friend Joanna is HP crazed and I knew it would be the perfect gift for her! Little did I know what I was getting myself into…
I was worried it would be too thin, like the hat, so I doubled up on the yarn. It came out very thick, which wasn’t so bad, but it was also very wide (used the green loom, for the authenic movie look) When I wrapped it around my neck to test it, I almost felt like it was choking me. I suppose a little further north, that might be okay, but it was really just too warm for Texas weather. Not only that, but I messed up right at the very end and then ran out of yarn to fix it with. So I called it a lost cause, had a few very frustrated moments, and got right to work on another one for my older sister (who is scarf crazed and loves the HP movies).
I started three days ago, using the same type of yarn in red and gold as opposed to Jo’s blue and grey. I didn’t double wrap this time, so I didn’t run out of yarn. And I made the bars of accent color more narrow than my first (failed!) attempt. It came out beautifully!! I just finished putting the fringe on early this morning. The first side was a little wonky, as I’d never fringed anything before, but the second came out rather nice. I’m very proud of my first completed project — a Harry Potter Hogwarts house scarf, gryffindor to be exact.
At the moment, I’m off to Wally World (wal-mart) to get more yarn and some cat litter and then I’ll return home to begin making another one! Merry Christmas, family!
To find the pattern used, please visit: http://auntiesuzanne.blogspot.com/2005/12/how-not-to-make-hogwarts-scarf.html
