Quidditch Crochet Wristwarmers

Warning-These patterns have not been test crocheted and my crochet skills are not that great, so I'm sure there are mistakes.

Option 1

Using worsted weight yarn
Chain 30 in blue
Join in the round
SC 2 rounds
Change to silver/bronze
SC 4 rounds
Change to blue
SC 3 rounds

Feel free to adjust to use a different weight yarn or to fit your wrist better.

Option 2
Using fingering weight yarn
Chain 50 in blue
Join in the round
SC 2 rounds
Round 3-18 SC 19 SC R chart in silver/bronze SC 19
SC 2 rounds in blue.
Feel free to adjust for different size yarn or to fit your wrist better.

Quidditch Wristwarmer

Warning--This pattern is completely untested and is being written while I am half asleep. The are mistakes somewhere.

Special thank you to Karen (Lykkefanten on Ravelry) for letting me use her R chart.

Yarn should be worsted weight. Gauge should be apx. 5 spi in stockinette

CO 40 sts with blue yarn
Rounds 1-5 [k2,p2] till end
Rounds 6-23 Knit
Rounds 24-29 [k2,p2] till end
BO in pattern

Using sliver/bronze yarn, duplicate stitch R chart onto the stockinette section.
Feel free to do chart in intarsia instead of duplicate stitch and to adjust pattern to fit your wrist better or change the size of yarn.

Quidditch Gloves

Warning-This pattern has not been tested and has been tweaked slightly since I knit it. This is the first pattern I have written. I started writing it yesterday around 11 PM. So, I guarantee it has mistakes somewhere. I knit mine out of fingering weight yarn on US size 0 needles, but I knit loosely, so that is about a 1 or 1 1/2 for "normal" knitters. Due to the ribbing, it should fit just about anyone if done in a fingering or sport weight yarn on a size 1 to 3 US.

Click on the charts to enlarge them.

If you are knitting this for the Ravenclaw Quidditch team you can either knit the entire pattern in a variegated yarn that contains both house colors or knit chart A in silver/bronze and all other charts in blue.

CO 62 sts
Join being careful not to twist
Knit Chart A

Knit Chart B 4 or 5 times depending on the length you want your gloves.
For Right hand glove, Knit Chart C
For Left hand glove, Knit Chart D


Note on Charts C and D, where the * appears, knit 9 sts onto waste yarn. Slip those 9 sts back onto the left needle. Knit those 9 sts normally.

Knit Chart A

BO in pattern

For thumb, unravel waste yarn putting live sts onto 2 dpns. Knit across 1st needle. Pick up 2 sts. Knit across 2nd needle. Pick up 2 sts.
Knit 5 rounds.
BO loosely.

Happy New Year

Normally, I don't really do the whole New Year's resolution thing, but I have a couple things for this year. I joined a group of people on Ravelry who are all trying to read/listen to at least 52 books this year. I used to read far more than that, but now knit and read blogs. So, I'm giving it a shot. I'm going to try to finish 52 books this year. I'm partway into 1 book and 3 audio books and I want those to count.

I'm also going to try to blog more and let my long distance friends know that I have a blog, so they will quit wondering if I fell off the face of the earth.

I'm going to keep track of how much yarn I knit this year. This isn't a goal, it just sound like something fun to do.

We will be doing another no spend period of time and I will be getting back on the fly lady wagon soon, but Christmas isn't over until I visit my family next week and I can't try to put my house back together until after Christmas is over. There are still 3 presents left to finish, plus wrapping and packing.

My Wonderful Husband

See that beautiful yarn. It is my Christmas present from Darren. He is such a sweet husband. I saw this yarn last Saturday at Ancient Pathways, while we were there knitting and fell in love with it. It is 880 yards of lace weight wool, hand dyed by Meg (the owner of Ancient Pathways). The picture doesn't do the yarn justice. It is very dark purple and black and will make a beautiful shawl. Anyway, I told Darren I loved the yarn and I thought about buying it, but was good and put it back. That night, he sent Meg a PM to have her hold it for him, so he could pick it up on Tuesday. He gave it to me Tuesday night because he was afraid that someone would mention that he had been in the store without me. Isn't he the sweetest thing. This was after I thought we had agreed that my Christmas present was going to be the much more practical bamboo needle set on Ebay. He told me to go ahead and buy the needles for him for Christmas, even though he is getting a pair of socks (which will be knitted by spring.) Isn't he the best.

No More White Stockinettte

I'm knitting a sweater for Dad for Christmas/his birthday. The main portion of the sweater is white stockinette. This is my first adult sized sweater, so I had no clue how mind numbing it is to knit that much with no pattern and no color. To make it worse, gauge swatches lie, so even though I made a gauge swatch, my gauge was wrong. Being the stubborn person I am, I refused to accept that it was too big until I had knit almost the entire back, meaning that I have knit almost 2 backs (one was frogged) and 1 front. I am done. Happy dances were danced, along with some woohoos. No more white stockinette for me.

Bad Blogger, No Cookie

Ok, so I really am not the kind of person who blogs regularly. I knew this when I started. I will start blogging regularly soon, because I am doing a swap that requires blogging. It is the Hogwarts Little bit of Everything Swap. So far, I'm fairly clueless, because I have never been involved in a swap that required more than just posting a list of stuff you like and picking out/making stuff your partner likes. Being clueless is quite interesting, because I'm suppose to be leading the dueling. I'm learning a lot as I go and am quite excited.

Well, it is now November, and I'm sure you are dying to know how the no spend month went. We ended up breaking the rules and going out to eat at the end of the month, but we learned so much about what is important to us financially that I think it was a success. We are currently just working off a budget and doing Dave Ramsey's Total Money Makeover, baby step one, but I think we might institure a short no buy for the next couple weeks. Having some no buy time helps us to stay focused.

The past 10 days, we have bought a lot more than we usually buy at one time, but only one yarn purchase was a frivilous purchase. We are keeping our house a lot colder this winter (I don't feel like paying for heat since I pay so much for AC) which meant that I needed some warmer clothes. The $50 spent on clothes and $30 spent on an electric blanket will be much cheaper than the heating bills. Then, our crockpot died. Crockpots are a neccessity for cheap, easy winter meals. So, we got a new one. Darren also got some new shirts, because his are starting to disinigrate. All of this was important, but we need to regroup from it.