Way back a long time ago, oh, way before you were born, missey, I knitted up a little envelope for Thing 2’s teeth as they shuffled off the mortal coil known as his mouth and alit on a pillow. Those little buggers went missing easily under his pillow and the little knitted envelope seemed to help keep the teeth easy to find—plus he liked it. I thought it was such a durn useful thing that I would just hop on Excel and make up a little chart and send it out to the world. I figured one or two people would get it and it would make them smile and knit little pouches for their loved ones and lo’, the world would become a good and happy place.
Well, about 300 people have downloaded it so far and the world still seems like the same old world to me, so I thought maybe I should shine the pattern up a bit and re-release it to all y’all and see if we can’t get some goodness and joy to spread around a bit more.
You can download it now and it won’t cost you a cent. Knit it at a tight gauge so the teeth don’t squeeze through the stitches.
Please post pictures though that link back to the pattern on Ravelry. I’d love to see how you modify it and make it all YOU. That’s the fun part.
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Another time back in… oh… 2007/2008 maybe? I was part of a few Harry Potter Sock Swaps. I still have the socks I received (the Revenclaw stripy socks are particular favorites of mine). I was having a heckuvatime figuring out what to knit because the name I drew was for someone in Hufflepuff.
Hufflepuff.
Yellow and Black?!
[groan]
And a badger?!
And then I thought, WAIT! I know! I can knit the Huffl and epuff across the back of the socks and again across the front of the socks so when your feet are together they say HUFFLEPUFF… and maybe I can work a little badger in on the back of the heel.
Thus were the Hufflepuff socks forged.
I blogged about them quite a bit back then and afterward turned the posts into something like a running blog document. Later I cleaned it up a bit more and added my new toe-up-sock-with-a-gusset-and-flap instructions from my sock heel class (see left sidebar). Now you can download a reasonably polished piece of work also free for the taking. It’s not as detailed as the newer sock patterns I have, but it’s followable and I had a fun time knitting them. I hope you do too.
Tomorrow, two more patterns! And of course, there’s the sale going on in my Rav Store. Read about why I’m having it here.
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