When life gets crazy, I do what I know how to do — pray and craft.  There’s been a whole lot of good and a whole lot of crazy mixed in so I have a few things to show you.  😀

Today frustrations drove me to this — starting a cover for my hot water bottle using this pattern:

source: wooly ewe on Ravelry

I’m using some 100% pure Peruvian wool for it in a lime green shade.  That should make it good and toasty!!!  I’ll be done with this in a few days so you should see my version by sometime next week.

But even before the crazy today, my hands have been busy.   You’ve heard me go on about the Harry Potter forum on Ravelry so I’ll spare you some more Potterhead yammering, 😀  and I’ll just say that all the following projects were based of HP prompts and submitted for class consideration in the game.  Lemme just go directly to post, directly to showing you what I’ve been up to.  😀

My Project Page: Be Inspired

Pattern Designer: NaturallyKnitty

Pattern Name: Quick & Easy Slouchy Hat

Mods: I took two inches off the body to decrease the slouchy factor so the hat can fit me perfectly as a beanie

I also finished two arm knitting infinity scarves.

My project Page: The Forgotten

Pattern Designer: Unknown.

Resource used: Michaels Store Arm Knitting Video

Mods: none

Status: Being frogged.  That’s ripped out for you non knitters!  😀

Some of the stitches got snagged when a friend sat on my couch and it’s hard to position them back so I’m ripping and doing it again.  It only took me 20 mins the last time so I don’t fee too bad about re-doing it.

I’ve also been a cabling fiend and did this for a friend.  I can’t say too much more about this project and I’m not adding any project details since my friend that it’s going to reads this blog and it’s a surprise gift for her. 😛

It was high praise indeed when Malabrigo Yarns (seller of the yarn I used) liked the picture on Instagram.  😀

I’ve also been fooling around with folk art weaving and the Museum of American Folk Art threw a like my way on Instagram after I posted this project.  I wanted to do something which represents all the HP teams on Ravelry and this is what I came up with.   The project definitely has piqued my interest in folk art weaving so expect to see some more of that here.  I’m really digging the free-form aspect of this type of weaving and am excited to create some more patterns of my own.  I did this on a lap loom designed for such ease of use, even children should be able to crank out his/her own creations in a flash.

This project is a lovely addition to the empty wall space that’s above my plant stand.  It looks like it’s been there all the time or at least as if it belongs there!

I have one other project to share but that comes with a bit more conversation so I’ll leave that for either later this week or on the weekend.

I know you all must be going nuts with Christmas crafting; now that the HPKCHC competition is over until January, I need to make a trip around blogland to see what you all have been up to!