Trivia Question #6

It is always surprising to see our favorite craft show up in books, which characters do we find knitting in the Harry Potter series?

Trivia Question #5

Will be edited to be posted here when I return from work sometime this evening! Don't forget to come back and check on it!

Okay, here I am (a little later than I wanted to be but...) and the trivia question is:

In the Victorian era what were knitting needles traditionally made of?

Trivia Question #4

Approximately, when did knitting turn from a "men's" craft into a "woman's" craft?

Almost Finished!

I have completed the fronts and back of the sweater. Love that it was done in one piece with divisions at the armholes. The less seaming, the better, as far as I'm concerned. I also have one sleeve finished and have just begun the second. I took apart a sweater I had started which I didn't like so I think I'm going to be short on the yarn. I considered shortening the sleeves but I like the look of the full length in this pattern. I'm not too concerned of the dye lot because the yarn has a bit of a pattern to it. I think I may still reach my goal of being totally finished by next Wednesday. We'll see!

Trivia Question Number 3

Even before the advent of community groups to spur us along, knitters have had an interesting language all their own. After all, who else would understand K, P, K2Tog, SSK. And we seem to come up with more and more abbreviations everyday.

This week's question is to tell me what the following mean:

SeX

Frog

DH, DD, DS (etc)

EZ

UFO

KIP

WIP

LYS

TINK

Update

I have no pictures to show you. In fact, I have no progress to show you as I can't seem to get into this top. Each of the yarns in my stash (acrylics) don't seem right for my top and I keep frogging. Alas, I have to get motivated to either continue with a yarn that I have or to find a new pattern.

How is everyone else doing?

It's been a bit quiet around here

I haven't had a chance to photograph it or blog about it, but on our start date I did begin a test/gauge swatch for the Stacy sweater from Big Girl Knits (it is the sweater on the cover of the book). First I knit a test of the honeycomb pattern and then the ribbing. Amazingly, I got gauge with the first set of needles I tried for both parts of the pattern. Yes!
I plan to cast on just as soon as I finish up some birthday socks for my dad.
What is everyone else planning to work on?