So I am almost done Cass G-P’s knitting item or items   I’ve taken a break from the secret knitting  to finish some other projects.  Here’s a look at two of the projects I’ve finished.

Thermis

I knit this cozy neckwarmer out of Knitpicks Comfy in Pomegrante.  Thermis is warm and comfy, but I need to purchase the right buttons for it.  I’m off to the best button store in the Lower Mainland, it’s called Button Button to pick out the perfect buttons for this project.  I really should make on in Arrows colours because it would be the perfect thing to keep me warm during Quidditch practice.

Another FO to fly off my needles is a present for my mom.  Her birthday is on Monday.  I knit it from some left overs of DIC Classy in the Nightwatch colourway (the colour is much darker than the picture shows).  This was a quick but a little itchy knit for me.  My hands were find, but I did end up with some hives on my chin!  Funny thing I don’t know why I get hives on my face when I knit with animal fibers and not my hands.  Might be because I use a heavy handcream (Burt’s Bees Hand Salve) especially when I knit with animal fibers that I’m allergic to.  It turned out really pretty the pattern is Calorimetry This is the first time I’ve knit this pattern and I want to knit one for myself, so I have to find a good non-animal fiber for this.  I might use some Rowan Calmer, yum!

My answer for this weeks WWW is short and sweet, she is in England and was seen in Queerditch Marsh and Appleby Village.  Arise Arrows!

So Winnie is still travelling and forgetting where she is.  The Headmistress really needs this break!  Her first stop is Castle Larnach, New Zealand then she is going to visit the Rosebank Farm in Otago Peninsula.  Sounds like a lovely place to visit for a knitter and castle lover.

Her next stop is hard to figure out she leaves clues such as C-L-S, it was once three town on the Quebec border.  It has a quaint maple syrup factory and on a lake.  Oh boy is this one difficult!  Hold on, I think she is visiting Lac Brome, Quebec.  It was in the news recently since the Cabane à sucre (Sugar Shack) was hit by some sticky thieves! However she could be hiding around the Stanstand area, since I know that it was once three villages plus it is right on the border.  Hmmm, Lac Brome isn’t too far from Stanstand…  Not sure if this fits though since it doesn’t bring any light on the letter clues!  Oh well that’s my guess.

So Headmistress Winnie is taking some time off to wonder the world.  She was in London at the Ministry and was accused of falling to teach her students to apparate properly!  She mentioned the wizard accusing her had horrendous bedside manners, I wonder if she was in St. Mungos visiting someone.  Well I have a feeling Winnie is off to Italy somewhere since she has never used “Ciao!” before.  If I were her I’d wonder around Florence or Venice, it is beautiful.

I tried out for Shuntbumping and got my butt handed to me by Ambyr.  I failed to awake early enough, sigh.  Good thing is I have an awesome Ravenclaw hat and won’t have to speed knit anything more than holiday gifts.

I also got my number for the Arrows.  I’m number 42!  Do you know where your towel is?  Lol, snort.  Well I’m off to practice to make sure my fellow team mates don’t hurt themselves releasing those Quidditch balls without me.  Arise Arrows!

1. Someone with the same craft as you (either those listed above or another one). Olive Bumblebirch
2. Someone who was born in the same month. Bridget the Bloodthirsty (yay June!!, her birthday is just a few days after mine!)
3. Someone from a different country.Emma Gorodok (lives in Germany)
4. A new HSKS Quidditch player.Albratross Harbinger
5. A player who has been in 3 or more HSKS swaps.Lizzie Wychwood
6. A player who has a bigger stash than you! (And if your stash is the biggest, proudly say so!) I guess that’s me, but I believe that many witches and wizards are hiding their stash from public eyes
7. A player who both knits and crochets. Hermione Bagnold
8. Someone who has the same favorite color as you. Minerva Wood (blue and green!)

I was searching around Hogwart’s trying to find something that would inspire me and that would bring back the smile on my face, since I’m feeling down with a horrible muggle cold.  I peeked into Hermione’s room and was stunned by her beautiful blanket inspired by Van Gogh’s Starry Night.

Then I decided to make my way to the Herbology Shed to see if I can find to see if I could find the remaining ingredients I needed to make myself some Pepperup Potion.  I saw a mandrake on top of Bridget the Bloodthirsty’s head and told her not to move because there is a baby mandrake hiding on her head.  Before I could run for earmuffs and a pot, Bridget laughed and told me it is just a wonderful mandrake hat she knit.  Wow I can’t believe how realistic it was, or it could just be my horrible cold.

I decided that I wasn’t going to find my ingredients and that I should just go and find the infirmary staff.  On my way through the halls to the infirmary, I saw Emma hugging the most adorable little monster ever!   I continued walking down the hall and say Minerva Wood’s beautiful snowflake socks floating gentle through the air, I guess someone decided to play a cute little prank on her.  I must remember to tell her where I last saw her socks.

I finally made it to the infirmary, where I saw Olive knitting on her shiny Nancy Bush mystery socks. She dyed the yarn herself and I felt the sunshine radiate from it.  I wonder if she bottle some sunshine into her dye?  I found a bottle of Pepperup hiding in one of Lizzie’s Luna’s Twilight Socks.  What an interesting place to leave it!  I’ll have to talk to one of the infirmary staff about having someone tidy up very soon.  Good thing that Lizzie’s gorgeous sock was clean!

I took a good swig of the Pepperup potion and felt the steam flying from my ears.  Darn I can’t go to practice with my ears steaming!  I decided to head back to the Arrows dorm tents to lay down till the steam stops.  Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a wonderful blanket that reminded me of the eye of Jupiter.  I realized it was Albratross Harbinger’s blanket that she just finished after our last game.  I didn’t think she mind if I curled up in it’s warmth to take a nap.

Just a quick post to say I made it into the Appleby Arrows!!  Also we’ve been asked by our Team Captain: Fleur Sweeting to post a wishlist and favourites for our Quidditch swap pal, so you can find mine in the Wishlist and Favourites tab here on my blog.

Also I hit the 52 book mark in the read 52 books in 2009 Challenge!!  Yay to see what books I read so far this year check out my reading tab here or my good-reads button.

Well summer camp is sadly over and I spent most of it by the lake trying to catch some rays since my ankle was badly injured.  I have been working with a quidditch training coach to get my ankle and now coach potato body back into playing form.  Yay I won’t be on the injured list, watching on the sidelines like I thought I might.  Not that being a quidditch fan is bad, it’s just so much fun participating that I would end up watching from the sidelines in envy.

I’m tried out for the Arrows and Pride of Portree, if I had a third choice I would have tried out for the Magpies too!  I can’t help it the fact that I am attached to the Appleby Arrows, even since I was a little witch watching the fans fiery arrows soar through the air during a match.  It is so smashing that I get a chance to tryout.  I secretly hope that the Ministry will allow fire arrows again, it didn’t harm anyone….badly…

I’m also knitting the Percy shawl with some of my fellow Hogwarts Students.  I was making it with a pretty red bamboo laceweight, but I had to frog it.  The real lace, tiny chart and tiny yarn was just too much for me and my craptastic vision.  Sadly muggles don’t train guide dogs to read knitting charts for you.  I’m very happy that I will be fitted for a magic eye (just like Madeye Moody!) for Quidditch since it’s too dangerous for Faye. Well gotta run and get that fitting done.

Percy Shawl WIP pinned to blocking board

I’m sorry Emma Scamander, I’m late on my owl post.  I received my package from Emma last week!  I love everything thank you.  I also apologize for the crappy pictures.  It is a Herbology kit (yay lace)  I love the pattern, Multnomah.  Sadly the yummy soy sock yarn doesn’t have enough yardage to make this, but I have this delicious Handmaiden Sea Silk, in rainforest that I have put aside to make this shawlette.  Thank you Emma and I hope you and your wee ones are better now.

Good news is my ankle is finally healing!  I’m happy to say no more air cast for me, but I still have to wear the ace bandage because it isn’t that strong yet.  My physiotherapist (muggle person who tortures muggles who have injured their body and need to strengthen their injured appendage and such again)  told me it can take up to a year for the tendons to get back to full strength!  Eep, gotta be careful for a while not to re-injury my ankle again.

I’ve been doing more frogging then knitting again, but I did finish some cool things for Intarsia’s package.  I can’t wait to show them off.  I couldn’t help adding some handmade goodies to her class kit

Well off to the cabin again and I won’t be in touch for over a week.  I’ll try to make sure I post something next week since I’ve been horrible at posting on my blog here.  Summer is just to pretty to be sitting in front of a hot muggle computer.

So we are off the cabin to get away from this horrible heat wave that has hit us here in the Greater Vancouver area.  I’m taking a little project for your kit Intarsia, I hope to finish that soon.  I hope you like everything.  My ankle is slowly healing, I don’t ever want to sprain my ankle this badly ever again.  I’m happy to say I’m now down to one day a week for physio, yay!  I’ll be back soon with a better post, seriously I will.

Hugs,

Meggie and Faye