No More Swaps for Me

No, it isn't because I had a bad experience. It's because I just don't have the time or the money to properly invest in them.

I signed up for the second Hogwarts Sock Swap before school started. I figured that I'd have loads of extra time. I would be able to finish the socks and make some extra goodies for my partner.

Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.

I finished the socks, the socks that were due to my partner by Halloween, last week. Thankfully I had a wonderfully patient partner who understood my situation. I got my socks but kept them closed up tight. If she didn't have any socks, why should I?

Well now that they're mailed off to her I allowed myself to open up my package.
Aside from the wonderful socks, she also sent me Wendy Knits, two skeins of a beautiful celery colored merino, a hockey themed book mark, an issue of Seventeen from Singapore (the ads were so interesting!), a knitting kaleidescope and a package of blood-pops.

The socks, knit using the reptilian lace pattern from Knitty, fit perfectly! The beads she used were lovely. All in all, the socks are very Slytherin.

So a huge thanks to my eternally patient swap partner Chrissie. Your socks are on the way!

Hogwarts Sock Swap 2

Just barely made it in by the skin of my teeth!

1. What Hogwarts house have you been sorted into?

Slytherin 2nd Year

2. Shoe size? Foot length? Foot circumference?

US size 8, 9 inches long and 8.5 inche circumference.

3. List your three favorite sock yarns.
a. Koigu
b. WhiteOakStudio
c. Trekking XXL

4. Would you like to try a new brand of sock yarn? If so, which brand?

Socks That Rock. Never tried it before.

5. Do you prefer variegated or solid sock yarn?

Variegated. I love colors.

6. What colors would you like to add to your sock yarn stash?

Super crazy brite neon lime green. I adore this color. Especially when mixed with other brite colors. NO PINK!!!

7. What kind of sock patterns do you gravitate toward? Lace? Ribbed? Fair Isle?

I'm a chicken, I do mostly ribbed, but I'm SO up for a challenge.

8. Do you have any allergies? (smoke, animals, etc.)

Highly allergic to work.

9. Will your socks be exposed to cigarette smoke or animals as you knit them?

Nope. Just HIM.

10. Are you willing to have an international Hogwarts Sock Pal?

Sure!

WooHoo!!!

I got my Hogwarts sock swap package today!
I'm amazed I was able to maintain control enough to take pictures. I was sooo excited.
The socks fit perfectly. They're beautiful Jaywalkers and they're so soft. I told my friend who was over that I was going to wear them every day for the rest of my life.

Also in the package was some chocolate, Every Flavor Beans, a Slytherin keychain, adorable stitch markers, exploding bonbons, DPNs and some beautiful sock yarn in the Slayer colorway, as my swap buddy knows that I'm a huge Buffy fan.
The box that everything was wrapped in was so fantastically Slytherin.
Covered in pictures of those evil evil Slytherins that we all love to hate.

Thanks so much to my wonderful swap buddy Jennifer of Gryffindor.

The Mark Has Appeared!

So there I was, sitting at work, minding my own business. (And by that, I mean I was ignoring my work and perusing the net, bad Kelly!) When a strange box arrived in the mail. It had something of a threatening look to it. I opened it with hesitation and out burst The Dark Mark!Bag, that is. I got my Hogwarts Sock Kit Swap and I couldn’t possibly be happier. Hell, if she’d just sent the bag and left out everything else I’d still be happy. The bag rocks out loud. She included a zipper if I wanted to try and sew it in, she said in her note that she was afraid to try and end up ruining the bag. That’ll be tonight’s project.

Aside from the AMAZING bag I got 4!!! skeins of Knit Picks Essentials in Slytherin colors. Now, I’ve knit with this stuff before and they must have changed the type of yarn or something because this stuff is way softer than the older stuff I have in my stash. She also included 2 sets of DPNs in size 1 and 2, the cutest little stitch markers for knitting socks, they’re so tiny, Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans, which I opened and peeked inside the bag and boy do I have the vomit flavored ones! To finish it all off she included Charmed Knits, which I already have so we might be having a dorky Harry Potter contest in the near future.

Thanks Debbie! You rock!

Continuing with the Potter theme we’ve got going, I saw on my Potter KAL that someone had knit a cute little Crookshanks. I couldn’t resist making one of my own.

I used Sensations Angel Hair and ended up attacking it with my hairbrush to floof it up a bit. He’s adorable, I couldn’t be more pleased with how he turned out. He’s sitting on my desk right now, guarding against evil rat-men. And by that I mean the guy who keeps stealing my M&Ms.