Quietish

My whole weekend, yesterday, and today, have been full of completely random things to keep me occupied. I can detect no clear theme. I haven’t yet managed to complete the little project I was working on with Luna (heh, right) but got busy with a few other things.

First, I dug out Fortunate Traveler and pulled it out of the Q-Snaps it has been unwisely confined to for months and months. It is spending some time relaxing and I plan to make that my project for the evenings indefinitely. Here’s a pic, because it’s actually had some change since the last pic I posted.

Hopefully this means I’ll have some interesting content for my cross stitching friends, if any indeed have stuck around. I’ve been a neglectful and boring stitcher, it’s true. Well here, I’ll show you my little stitched Gryffindor crest to help make up for it.

I got the pattern from the Harry Potter Crafts yahoo group, where they are still currently holding a bit of a stitchalong.

By the way, have you noticed that it’s July? This means that we have LESS THAN 3 WEEKS ’til the release of Deathly Hallows, and even less time ’til the release of the Order of the Phoenix movie. As scary as that thought is, I’d like to point out that there is still time to do a little HP crafting. Please check out the above-mentioned yahoo group, as it is a great place for ideas, encouragement, and fun chat. Don’t forget the Leaky Crafts section for ideas, or the Crafts forum on the Leaky Lounge either. Eeeeeee, Harry!

In a spectacular show of just how short my useful but unstable ability to knit one thing at a time lasts, I managed to cast on 2 shawls. One is very simple and is out of my cone of Gourmet Yarn laceweight (no pic yet, it really is very plain and simple.) The other is for the Mystery Stole 3 knitalong.

I am still snickering every time I think about having cast on the Mystery Stole because up until Sunday I hadn’t once given it a thought. I wasn’t planning on starting anything new for awhile, you see. But then I came across someone’s progress picture on Ravelry, which led me to look at about 100 other progress pictures (side note: Mystery Stole 3 has surpassed Monkey has the top pattern there. Amazing), and before I knew what I was doing it was the wee hours of Monday morning and I was casting on the first “clue.” I’ve finished that part and now await Friday morning and the second clue. (Psst, you can sign up for that yahoo list until the 6th)

Ok, that’s enough for now. I’m off to find something to do with myself. I’m sure inspiration will randomly strike.