I’m very excited to join Another Weasley Along. I’m starting with a Weasley Sweater for the Boy. It’ll be my first sweater ever, and seems like the perfect place to start. If it goes well, Ihope to make one for myself. If that goes well, I can make one for the Rock Star, too. I decided not to buy yarn for all three at once, cuz that amounted to $247.00 and that’s a big investment. I’ll just see how they go. I’m very excited. The yarn is on its way!!!

Other HP projects I’m excited about are the Hermione Hat and Mittens. I’ll be ordering the pattern for these very soon. I’ll prolly do them in Ravenclaw colors, though. Unfortunately the Gryffindor house colors are very close to those of the University of Minnesota and everyone around here mistakes me for a rabid Gophers fan, when in fact, I’m a rabid Harry Potter fan. Silly, but it bugs me. Plus it’s an excuse to make another scarf. I loved that project and it’s perfect for mindless knitting times.

Since I don’t have any progress pics for my first Weasley, I’ll just post the pics from when I knitted my Gryffindor colored Scarf and Wizard Winter hat. My first knitting projects ever. I wear them every day and love them to bits!!

Well, it’s not really a saga yet. Last night I spent the evening working on the Pink Sock heel. I tried out the Garter Stitch Short Row heel found here. I’m not sure yet if I’ll like the garter stitchiness of it. But I definately don’t like the huge gap that happened after I started knitting around. I spent part of today unknitting back to the gap and am going to try to fix it. I think the problem came when the pattern says to “When you are back up to the original 50% of stitches devoted to the heel, knit two extra rows, wrapping the first and last stich of the instep. This will help avoid gaps when you begin working in rounds again.”. I’ll unknit those two rows and try it again and see how it goes. Even though I’m not sure I like the look of the garter stitch heel, it seems very cushy. Prolly very comfortable. No picture.