Blogathon, Potterthon, and a Horcrux
Have you heard about Blogathon? It’s a way for bloggers to band together and raise money for charities. This year I’m part of a group blog called Potterthon — you guessed it, all about Harry Potter. Don’t worry, though: we have a strict spoiler-free policy for Deathly Hallows!
We’re going to take shifts during Blogathon to entertain the masses while we raise money for First Book. Here’s the mission of First Book, straight from their website:
First Book is a nonprofit organization with a single mission: to give children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their first new books. We provide an ongoing supply of new books to children participating in community-based mentoring, tutoring, and family literacy programs.
You can still support Potterthon by going here and registering to sponsor us.
I’ll start adding my posts in later today, and I have a feeling that I’ll be focusing on knitting patterns. I do love knitting patterns, you know.
Speaking of knitting patterns, I did NOT get my Horcrux socks finished in time for the big ol’ Harry-fest in the middle of this month. I have one sock finished and the other sock started, but there just wasn’t enough time to get the second one finished. Maybe I’ll work on that today as part of my Potterthon …
I’m also tempted to whip up some sort of knit wizard hat and slap it on Clive, just to see what the poor cat would do!
Horcrux Socks: Crazy shot
I am amazed by one thing right now: how something as seemingly simple as Ravelry can make me want to update my knitting progress records, keep knitting, and find pictures from three years ago to upload back to Flickr. Yes, I have been hunting down old knitting pictures, posting them to Flickr, and then entering a project with those pictures. All because I just want to remind myself that my knitting HAS accomplished something! It kind of gives a girl hope, if you know what I mean.
Some of that hope spilled over into the Horcrux socks. I’ve been picking this up and knitting a while longer while I’m reading for school or watching television. I’ve almost finished the first one (yay!) and now just have to keep going so I get the pair done for July 21st. (SQUEE!)
[Aside: Stupid school. I’m glad that I should finish in December so I can concentrate on important things like knitting more.]
As for these socks, I think I like how they’re turning out. I probably should have gone down another needle size, to a at least a 1. i’m using a US 1.5, and I think this might have a little too much stretch. We shall see, though …
Horcrux Socks!
Originally uploaded by dormousie.
I’m late joining the party on Six Sox Knitalong for the Horcrux Socks, but of course I had to make them. I saw these one someone else’s blog and decided that this is what I needed for the end of the Harry Potter book series in July. I was going to knit my version in some Socks that Rock, and THEN Adelle surprised me with the gift of some Ravenclaw Sock Yarn from Scarlet Knits. Add in a plane ride to and from Norfolk, Virginia, and we suddenly have sock progress for the first time in forever.
I have more progress that I’ll show later, but I’m so excited about actually knitting again. I had a two week break from school and managed to finish the hem on Eris, start Something Red, and then pick up these socks. I need to remember that I can actually knit while I watch television instead of just sitting and doing whatever on the computer.
Anyway, these socks are on US 1.5 needles, and here’s hoping it’s a gauge that’ll be tight enough for my foot since this is supposed to be a stretchy pattern. We shall see!
