Making Stilton Style Cheese - part 1

It's a big day for me today, because I am making Stilton like cheese for the first time.
Going through my own and online recipes I decided to follow youtube instructions by Gavin Webber, at "Little Green Cheese". I like his video tutorials.

I bought a pot big enough to hold 2 gallons of milk, sterilized all my tools and am on my way.
The milk and cream have to be heated to the required 86F. Then I added the Pinicillum Roqueforti and sprinkled the mesophilic direct set culture on top. After mixing it in with the milk/cream liquid it needed to rest for 30 minutes.

After that I added the rennet and let the mixture sit for 90 minutes.

While the cheese was resting I was out on the road trying to find a sushi mat. It seems that my town is a sushi free mat zone. Now I either need to travel the longer distance to an Asian supermarket in the area or just add it to the mail order of other cheese supplies I may need.
I am also somewhat worried that the mold I bought not too long ago is not large enough for the amount of curds being produced by 2 gallons of milk.

Back to cheese making: after verifying that the mass could be cut cleanly I gently spooned the curds from the pot into a colander lined with butter muslin (finding out that my big colander is not nearly big enough!!!). Luckily I found another colander and split up the curds for now. Now I am waiting for another 90 minutes to let the curds set.

I reunited the curds in one large piece of butter muslin tying knots into the fabric to make a ball. Now the ball is hanging for 30 minutes (or however long it takes for the curds to stop dripping) from a tall faucet over the sink.

Then the curds need to get pressed for 8 hours or overnight. Considering that I started this whole process in the morning it will be an overnight pressing for me. Time just flies when I am making cheese.

One of my other craft projects is this one here. I found the Silky Wool in a local yarn shop and bought a few skeins, not yet knowing what exactly I would be making it into. So, I searched Ravelry for wrap patterns and found the Etched Rio Wrap. So, this is how it began:

Air travel is just so conducive to knitting. Nothing much else to be done on an aircraft and after my recent business trip this is how it looks as of yesterday:

Nearly halfway done. 62" is the goal.