Woolgathering Dot Net

Three more knitters for the PoA Scarf Knitalong!

Laurie E. is doing her scarf in book Ravenclaw colors. As she describes it, they are "navy and cognac". Kate is starting her daughter's Gryffindor scarf. Beth, in Texas, is knitting up a Gryffindor with some thrift store yarn.

So far, here is my progress on Salt Peanuts:

It's the right hand side, which is knitting up faster than the left hand side. I'm still writing out the pattern line by line, and I'm at the armhole shaping. I received a really nice email from Veronik Avery (squee! The author of the pattern!) that gave some great advice regarding measuring. She suggests that I mathematically calculate at which row I begin the armhole, collar, and short row shapings and simply write down the row. Then, as long as I use the row counter, it should be easy to know what to do when. Fantastic advice! Why am I not using it for the right hand side? Because I've written out the left and made some variations as I went along and need to make the same adjustments to the right if I want them to be the same. Drat! Oh well. At least I'm not fanatically measuring like I was with the left.

Anyway, I have to put Salt Peanuts on a short hiatus. Deb (of Stitch'N Bitch fame) put a call out for production knitters for her new book and I volunteered. I'm meeting her at the NY SNB group that meets at Space Untitled tomorrow. It should only be a fairly short hiatus: I am knitting a tea cozy.