Ok I'm about to climb the stairs to the Owlrey and throw myself off. I search and I search but I can not find any DK weight yarn in Gryffindor colors hell I can't even find any sock weight in Gryffindor colors! My monsters need little hats and scarves and so do I and we are all gryffs. Well it may be too early to be sure but the littlest one could be a Slytherin he's so sneaky. But that isn't the point! I also want to make the really cool gryffindor pride socks for myself that Spinningmaid is designing and no nothing not one set of matching colors! A brick red but no gold or yellow a perfect gold and no red but more reds than golds to pick from. Blast you! Blast you all! All you yarn people! I may have to dye my own. It will take some work with the color wheel but I could probably work it out. Bah!
Aha! I found it! I just bought more than I will need for one pair of lorna's laces shepherd sock in red and butterscotch from the loopyewe. Yay! I'm so excited! Now to find something to make hats and scarves and what not. My lys has every shade of cascade 220 they make it seams like perhaps I'll have to break down and make worsted weight scarves. ;)
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
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The Loopy Ewe has some Louet sport weight in colors that could work.
I'm glad we both made it through our first house quizzes without needing a trip to the hospital wing!
I needed fingering weight, they did have louet gems fingering in a couple of colors that would have been wonderful but the color red I wanted they only had one skein left... Oh well I did find something I think will work and I've always wanted to try out Lorna's Laces.
Knitpicks has a decent burgundy in their superwash merino sock yarn. That could possibly do for scarves...I used it as Charmed Knits did, with a now-discontinued color of Baby Ull that you might still be able to get. They were very very different in weight, but it worked all right...the one color may wear before the other, but if the colorwork were on the leg, rather than the foot, I doubt it would matter even a tiny bit...
Anyway, wanted you to know that I gave a very extensive answer to your query about quills on my blog just now. I hope you are not disappointed that my pens are steel, rather than feather - I don't have the skill to cut my own feather pens yet, although I do intend to work on it. I know I had feathers in one of my knitting bags, bought for this exact purpose...
Anyway, several resources, you'll be writing with your own quill in no time!
Belladonna Boomslang, thanking you for your compliment on her blog...
I am going to make some Gryffindor socks too and I thought Lorna's Laces was a great choice, Louet is fantastic and of course the Loopy Ewe is undeniably the best. See you in the common room.
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