Hogwarts Show & Tell

This is my first sock for my Ravenclaw pal, it's almost completed, I only have to knit the blue toe. I hope these colours are OK. I watched one of the films again and these colours are as close as I could get. They don't look as bright and interesting as some of the other socks that have been knitted. I'm also slightly worried that I may run out of yarn before they are finished. Horrors! I hope not, it would be quite complicated for me to get more as they are knit in KnitPicks Essential which I bought via my friend in Atlanta. The sock feels lovely and soft and is quite fine, knitting up at 10 stitches per inch, so nice and easy to do the calculations.


There's been a blue sparkly maraca in our dining room for months, I don't know whose it is or, where it came from but it's perfect for stretching the sock to show the lacy rib pattern I've used.

I'm also in the process of making a wizardy sack to keep everything together, I can't show anymore right now because my batteries are flat. Watch this space to see the stitch markers, bag and maybe even my failed attempts at Ravenclaw colours with natural dyes.

If this has whetted your appetite for magical, wizardy knitting why not sign up for the second sock swap? You can sign up here from 14 July.