I suppose one could do worse.

( Harry Potter compatibility quizfoo! )

Finished my test piece!

Woo! Finished my first piece of 'keep going until you've got the stitches in your fingers' knitting. It's kind of lame looking and you can see the exact point where I Got A Clue - it's where I suddenly realized 'purling' does not equal 'inserting the needle into the back of the loop from right to left and pulling the yarn over the top of the needle' and started doing textbook garter stitch - but I'm still proud of it. I'm sending it to Warm Up America!, which is the Craft Yarn Council of America's social service branch. They distribute afghans to various social service groups and charities, and while they normally prefer to give out full afghans, they happily take 7" x 9" sections and join them together with others to make full afghans to be distributed. Mine is a 7" x 9" block of Skyscraper Grey. It's at this link, which is around 56k - fair warning. I'm just happy I managed to get it close to right, and even happier that it has a good home to go to. Now I can start on the Harry Potter scarf! And on telling my brain that it's not allowed to talk me into buying a tiny bit of metallic yarn to provide a copper-coloured stripe between the green and grey sections.