Twisted Fibers

I knit this for The Everything Harry Potter Swap. My partner has received so I can post this now. It took me a while, especially since I have never done stranded colorwork like this. But, oh, it was so fun! The picture is totally awesome, and works so well with the colors (yay for cheap yarn!).
Yarn: Woolease
Needles: US 7 (I think, they may have been 8s)
Chart

I wasn’t sure it was going to turn out but after blocking - wow!
The bag is entirely lined, and I even added lining to the handle (which is crocheted for thickness).

The plan is to make myself one with the Ravenclaw crest. I found these, though, which are amazing.

Ah, earthquakes.  Living in California means that I am well acquainted with them.  Last night there was a 4.5, which isn’t that big, but it still gets pretty shaky.  This earthquake happened at about one o’clock in the morning, so I was asleep.  You would think that waking up to the earth moving is obvious that it is an earthquake.  But in my half-awake state I had no idea why my bookcases were shaking back and forth.  Only a few minutes later did I realize what had happened when my mom came to see if everything was fine.  Seriously, I would have just thought it was an awfully strange dream or new kind of vertigo.

On another note, I have gotten a drum carder!  It is a Louet standard sized, the mother of all drum carders.  I have already made perhaps 15 batts and there is wool all over the place.  The Louet has 1/2″ long teeth, so it looks like some kind of torture device.  Rocky and Oliver just adore the boxes of wool that I have around and tend to burrow underneath.

Here is a picture of Rocky enjoying himself:

It has happened again: I have decided to knit a pair of socks.  This is my first time, you see.  Well, I have knit another sock, but never got around to making it a mate.  So I’m going to pretend that this was my first sock.  I’m using the Toe Up Formula on Knitty, which is very helpful.  I’ve got big feet, and women’s size socks are a little too small.  This was a way to get the perfect sized pair.

I’m using Lion Brand Magic Stripes in the Jellybean colorway.  So far so good, though it took a few tries to start out.  Kept messing up by not reading the pattern correctly, or reading it right and thinking I hadn’t (after frogging the whole toe again, I just about screamed in frustration that I had just pulled it out for no reason).

I’m at the point where I’m gonna work the short-row heel.

The sorting hat says that I belong in Ravenclaw! Take the most scientific Harry Potter
Quiz ever created.Get Sorted Now!

Well, actually it said I was closest to Hufflepuff. But only by 1% greater than Ravenclaw. And I know that I am a Ravenclaw at heart. This was a long test (over 100 questions!) and it wasn’t the usual What is your favorite color? then listing the house colors. It was actually about your personality.