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[bubosquared]

Okay, List Of Things To Knit, in no particular order:

• Cigar gloves for myself. I have the yarn, I just need to sit my arse down and start them. I may end up adjusting the pattern a bit, making the cuff longer and knitting in some elastic into it, and then I have to figure out the best way to line it with the alpalca/silk blend a coworker gave me. Hm, perhaps I should ask for advice on that on knitting ...
• A pair of these for myself.
• Cabled hat in Gryffindor colours for ruby_fruit.
• Additional HP scarves for various people.
• New wristwarmers to wear at work, because these ones are falling apart. I wonder if I can use the rainbow yarn for that ...
• A Weasley jumper for myself.
• A shawl or something for my brother's girlfriend for Christmas. Need to find nice (purple or black) yarn for it, and a pattern that'll knit up fairly quickly. (Something like this could work nicely, if I adapt it for a triangular shawl. Or maybe something more like this?)
• Possibly this as part of a present for one of the parental units?
• Possibly this for my brother the tea fanatic?
• Possibly one of these for my youngest brother?

Yeah, I'm so overreaching. Sigh. Okay, after Amy's scarf, I start on the gloves, and then the shawl for Yana, working on the hat and wristwarmers (and the slippers?) when I feel like taking a break. If and only if I have enough time and yarn left over once that's done, I can try and do some of those small present type things.

Oh, and note that I have a whole list of patterns I want to try after all that--this is jut the list of concrete things I need or want now and/or have the yarn for.

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[anatsuno.livejournal.com]

I SO want the same slippers, my issue is that so far in France it has proven impossible (I am not syaing this lightly) to buy 100
5 pure wool WOT FELTS. All the wools I find, even pure wool, have been treated some way or other to be at least *slightly* superwash or something. When I talked of felting things - and not the needle-felting stuff that has started to appear to make little animals from pure roving or whatnot - the ladies in various shops were all "..." "never heard of that" "even in the professional salons and fairs and things we never saw anything about it" and so on. VERY DEPRESSING.

I also want to knit a tie-one-on someday, though I don' want it quite this lace-y / light... Need to figure out which yarn I'd want it in.

*goes back to knitted doll making for now*

(my ravenclaw book scarf is still sorta on your list yes? maybe?)

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

I SO want the same slippers, my issue is that so far in France it has proven impossible (I am not syaing this lightly) to buy 100
5 pure wool WOT FELTS.

You know, that's a good point. I'd been planning on doing this with the recycled yarn from a wool jumper I got, but that may very well not felt, either. Fucksticks. Shall have to shop around a bit, then.

(my ravenclaw book scarf is still sorta on your list yes? maybe?)

'Tis, yes! That is, if I can ever find proper yarn for it over on this side of the Atlantic. All the UK yarn stores I find online only seem to have novelty-ish yarns. Must consult hp_knitting on this.

[anatsuno.livejournal.com]

oops. obviously i meant 100%, but you got that. :D

and i hope hp_knitting can help w/ locating good yarn.. (also w/ the felting yarn mebbe? hopefully?)

i am very close to going through a friend who knits in the US and make an order from Knitpicks.com, who have real proper feltable yarn.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

and i hope hp_knitting can help w/ locating good yarn.. (also w/ the felting yarn mebbe? hopefully?)

I shall definitely ask, both there and in knitting.

i am very close to going through a friend who knits in the US and make an order from Knitpicks.com, who have real proper feltable yarn.

If you do, let me know? I can paypal you money and we can combine orders so I can get a bunch of HP-coloured yarn.

[kaitoujeanne.livejournal.com]

Knitpicks does free shipping if you buy over 35 dollars, but it takes longer.

I actually like Elann.com a lot better than Knitpicks; they do ship to Europe and have a lot of fantastic yarn. For wool wot felts (and HP colors!), check out the Highland Wool.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

knitpicks doesn't ship to Europe, sadly. :(

Oooh, linky! Thanks!