Prompt/Challenge Title: Hut on the Rock Project Name & Page Link:Imagination Whimsy Box Team: Which Broomstick Brief Description: Pretty sure this is in the top 3 of most over the top things I’ve ever made!
Prompt/Challenge Title: Molly’s Housecraft - WIP Project Name & Page Link: Rooster Embroidery Team: Which Broomstick Brief Description: This was my travel craft for quite a while, but getting stuck an extra day on my trip finished it up pretty quick!
Prompt/Challenge Title: Hospital Wing Project Name & Page Link:Happypotamus III Team: The Quibbler Brief Description: Crochet is one of my best crafts, so I crocheted a hippo! I used yarn from my stash and this pattern: Happypotamus The Happy Hippo (ravelry link)
Prompt/Challenge Title: Paddington Station Project Name & Page Link: Valentine Cards Team: The Quibbler Brief Description: For valentine’s day, I made some cards to be mailed to people!
Challenge: cupboard under the stairs
Team: Witch Weekly
Description: I made more than 8 of these little dino heart broaches and card holders for my daughter’s dance class friends:
Challenge: Molly’s Household: Scrap Busting
Team: Witch Weekly
Description: working from the scrap fabric bag I made a valentine boa/bunting out of old pajamas:
Challenge: Hogsmeade Station
Team: Witch Weekly
Description: This tiny sweater is made of very colorful yarn, it could have been a souvenir from Honeydukes!
Challenge: Paddington Station
Team: Witch Weekly
Description: This tiara is meant for a friend. It’ll be mailed as soon as I have the letter written to accompany it:
I managed to make a “thing” !! Prompt/Challenge Title: Hut-on-the-Shore Project Name & Page Link: Window Wanderland - Lord of the Rings Team: Witch Weekly
**Brief Description:**We have a community thing in our part of the city, the so called “Window Wanderland” - people who sign up decorate their windows for a weekend and keep their lights on so people can see the creativity. You walk around the houses who have signed up (or drive by car - they are usually very spread out).
We did our first one in 2022 - Ghost Busters themed, and this year it was Lord of The Rings.
There was no Wanderland in 2023. And I think my area of the city started this during Lockdown (2021 maybe?), at least we didn’t hear about it until 2021.
I made the 3 panels for our kitchen window all by myself, and then helped Doug and the twins to do the two Velux Windows (middle and top floor). They are quite rugged at the edges, due to the use of tracing paper (never able to cut that one neatly!!) and the worst ever: sugar paper!
Prompt/Challenge Title: Flourish & Blots Project Name & Page Link: February Book Binding Adventure Team: Daily Prophet Brief Description: My one goal for this month was to make a book. It took me forever to do the typeset, and I found a glaring mistake when I flipped through the pages this morning, but Oh Well! There’s a lot wrong with this but the only way to get better is practice. ~190 page quarter legal size, so about the same size as a trade paperback.
I realized I haven’t updated in a couple weeks! Here’s what I’ve been up to… There are 2 more quilts nearing completion, and a few kids quilt tops for charity in the works. As soon as I finish those off, it’s time to start crafting for Ada’s birthday, so hopefully there will be more to share soon.
Prompt/Challenge Title: Hut on the Rock Project Name & Page Link:Black + Rainbow BOM Quilt Team: Witch Weekly Brief Description:
This lap quilt should have been easy. But I definitely kept adding to it, until it was officially over the top! Instead of 12 Blocks of the Month, I ended up adding to get to 16, then put in sashing and cornerstones. After that I decided to use up some of my stash of Leaders & Enders making a pieced border, and soon this ‘little lap quilt’ was 70" square! It now lives on the queen bed in The Abbeeroad Room (aka the Guest Room).
Prompt/Challenge Title: Leaky Cauldron Project Name & Page Link:Apple Butter Muffins Team: Witch Weekly Brief Description:
I had a couple of small apples that had some dents and needed to be used up. While I was trying to decide what to make with them, I remembered that my MIL & FIL brought us some Apple Butter from an orchard near their house. So Apple Butter Muffins! I added some chopped pecans too, because I wanted to use them up. These came out HUGE. The pic doesn’t show it because of the angle, but they are super tall, fluffy muffins (especially surprising because I subbed in half whole wheat flour, which is usually a bit heavy. Highly recommend trying them!
Prompt/Challenge Title: Flourish & Blott’s Project Name & Page Link:Mermaid Tote Bag Team: Witch Weekly Brief Description:
I whipped this up for the little girl who lives across the street, for her birthday. She’s just a few weeks older than Ada, and loves purple, so I used a purple mermaid Fat Quarter from my stash, and pulled scraps in matching colors to go with it. The back is entirely scrappy patchwork 2.5" squares in all shades of purple, pink, and turquoise.
Two months into our reimagined Craftalong! So far we have 12 people participating this round, up from 9 last time. That’s wonderful! Let’s take a look at where we stand in terms of project submissions…
Witch Weekly
4 readers, 140 beans, for an average of 35 beans per reader.
Daily Prophet
3 readers, 110 beans, for an average of 36.66 beans per reader.
The Quibbler
3 readers, 250 beans, for an average of 83.33 beans per reader.
Which Broomstick
2 readers, 50 beans, for an average of 25 beans per reader.
How is everyone’s winter going? Is it beginning to look like spring where you are? Or are the cold temperatures and snow still going strong? Anyone working on anything fun for spring?
Winter here has a lot less snow than usual - I can even see some grass right now! I’m looking forward to spring and warmer weather, and I’m even looking forward to spring cleaning the house and yard (though cleaning up all of the flower beds is going to take a lot longer than just spring).
I don’t really have any ‘spring’ projects planned - I’ll just continue working on finishing WIPs and making things out of stash supplies.
After so many years living in the South, and absolutely hating summer, I find I’m actually looking forward to warm weather. Taking walks, even on hotter days, isn’t as miserable as it was in TN, and Ada’s big enough to play on the playground equipment at the nearby park that our neighborhood walking trails connect to. It was in the 70’s for a few days this week, and she loved going over and climbing on everything. And I’ll be honest, I can’t wait to be back in the pool!
Spring is teasing us, with these crazy temperature swings. Can’t wait for the new season! Want to get out in the sunshine. After my current swaps are over, I’ll have lots of things to post. Next up, I have a long list of personal craft commitments.