[ponder]
A long, long time ago, I got some blue yarn and some bronze yarn (genuinely - it's brown with a sparkle) and made a Ravenclaw scarf. I was so chuffed by this that I bought red, green, yellow, pink, and grey, and also gold, silver, black-with-sparkle, and purple-with-sparkle, so that I could also make Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff, Sparklypoo, and generic Hogwarts scarves.
I'm a couple of feet into Gryffindor now, and I like what I'm doing differently here sufficiently well that I'm thinking of pulling out the Ravenclaw one and redoing it (I have enough yarn for another one, but I think I'd rather not use it all up with half of it on a thing I don't like as much [edit: Apparently I have enough bronze but not any more blue - but the blue is Ella Rae Classic, so that's no problem. The brown is Patons Brilliant, which has been discontinued.]). But now I'm wondering some things. Specifically:
1. I've got a provisional cast-on and am intending to knit until I'm one row from done and then graft the end to the beginning, making the thing a big loop. But do I graft it to make a big loop, or do I give it a half-twist and then graft it to make a big mobius loop? Do I do different things for different houses? If so, do I do three plain and one mobius (Ravenclaw, natch), or two and two (?!?), or what other things can be done with the other houses? Plain loop for Gryffindor, since I've got it going; plain straight scarf for Hufflepuff; mobius scarf for Ravenclaw; and what for Slytherin? Something with a built-in buttonhole? Advice welcome. Now I sort of wish I had some eyelash or something for Sparklypoo, but that would be too different.
2. If you were making a generic Hogwarts scarf, and you did it with grey yarn and subtly sparkly purple yarn, would you then also make fringe at either end in red-and-gold, green-and-silver, blue-and-bronze, and yellow-and-what-I'm-calling-iron-because-black-isn't-a-metal? Or would that be too (a) many colors, (b) on the nose, (c) much for some other reason?
I'm a couple of feet into Gryffindor now, and I like what I'm doing differently here sufficiently well that I'm thinking of pulling out the Ravenclaw one and redoing it (I have enough yarn for another one, but I think I'd rather not use it all up with half of it on a thing I don't like as much [edit: Apparently I have enough bronze but not any more blue - but the blue is Ella Rae Classic, so that's no problem. The brown is Patons Brilliant, which has been discontinued.]). But now I'm wondering some things. Specifically:
1. I've got a provisional cast-on and am intending to knit until I'm one row from done and then graft the end to the beginning, making the thing a big loop. But do I graft it to make a big loop, or do I give it a half-twist and then graft it to make a big mobius loop? Do I do different things for different houses? If so, do I do three plain and one mobius (Ravenclaw, natch), or two and two (?!?), or what other things can be done with the other houses? Plain loop for Gryffindor, since I've got it going; plain straight scarf for Hufflepuff; mobius scarf for Ravenclaw; and what for Slytherin? Something with a built-in buttonhole? Advice welcome. Now I sort of wish I had some eyelash or something for Sparklypoo, but that would be too different.
2. If you were making a generic Hogwarts scarf, and you did it with grey yarn and subtly sparkly purple yarn, would you then also make fringe at either end in red-and-gold, green-and-silver, blue-and-bronze, and yellow-and-what-I'm-calling-iron-because-black-isn't-a-metal? Or would that be too (a) many colors, (b) on the nose, (c) much for some other reason?