CLOSED: Harry Potter Craftalong - Ostara 2021

I have such a backlog of projects to add, so planning on a little at a time!

Class or Challenge Title: Charms
House: Hufflepuff
Project Name & Page Link: Red tulips


Brief Description: Canon have the most amazing printable projects, which is where I found these red tulips. They are slightly fiddly to make up, but I wouldn’t say difficult. I have coated the petals with Mod Podge to give a shine and protect them
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Class or Challenge Title: Herbology
House: Hufflepuff
Project Name & Page Link: Altered thread spool
Brief Description: This altered thread spool was inspired by one of my favourite spring flowers, the daffodil
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Class or Challenge Title: Muggle Studies
House: Hufflepuff
Project Name & Page Link: Weaving sample
Brief Description: Made for the mini book swap, this sample of weaving was made on a hand made loom (old cardboard box) and was woven completely by hand
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Class or Challenge Title: Transfiguration
House: Hufflepuff
Project Name & Page Link: Lemon Curd and Mini Lemon Meringue Pies



Brief Description: Made for an afternoon tea, I made the lemon curd from scratch and then used the lemon curd in the mini lemon meringue pies. (I have also used the recipe with oranges as well, which tasted amazing, but was runnier!)
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It’s time for a nearly the end of term project dump! I finally have my crafty mojo back!!

Class or Challenge Title: Alchemy
House: Ravenclaw :eagle:
Project Name & Page Link: Aviatrix Medallion Quilt top
Brief Description: I chose to focus on the aspect of Iron for my assignment. The background of this colorful quilt is various shades of grey.
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Class or Challenge Title: Arithmancy
House: Ravenclaw :eagle:
Project Name & Page Link: Elemental Miniatures
Brief Description: Each of these miniatures started out as clear plastic. I used translucent paints and inks to give them a see through look.
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Class or Challenge Title: CoMC
House: Ravenclaw :eagle:
Project Name & Page Link: Dungeons and Dragons Sailing Ship
Brief Description: This ship had brought my D&D players so much joy! They were so surprised when I pulled it out and placed it on the table that they spent about 15 minutes just playing with it and all of its moving parts!
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Class or Challenge Title: DADA
House: Ravenclaw :eagle:
Project Name & Page Link: Pyewacket the Imp
Brief Description: I painted a metallic gold imp familiar for my warlock character. The gold paint really shines under lights!
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Class or Challenge Title: Detention - Repairo
House: Ravenclaw :eagle:
Project Name & Page Link: Kitchen Drawer Organizer
Brief Description: The large drawer in my kitchen island has been a giant mess, it was just a big open space and didn’t work. Everything was strewn about and getting stuck on each other. I sorted everything by type and size and drew “dividers” into the bottom of the drawer. I then cut pieces of wood and glued and nailed them together. Voila! and organized drawer.
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Class or Challenge Title: Detention - Stash
House: Ravenclaw :eagle:
Project Name & Page Link: Painting Minis from my stash
Brief Description: Sometimes when I’m bored I pull minis out of my stash and paint. And honestly there are more minis in my stash that need painting, than I have painted minis. Here is a grell (the brain guy), a tiefling character, and an earth elemental.
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Class or Challenge Title: Divination
House: Ravenclaw :eagle:
Project Name & Page Link: A Catio for Cordelia
Brief Description: My cat, Cordelia loves to go outside for walks. But isn’t safe for her to go out off leash so my husband and I decided she needed a catio. This project was interesting… my husband built an entire catio, assuring me he had it under control. Unfortunately when we went to attach it to the house it was so crooked and twisted, I decided to rebuild it. Thanks dad for making me take woodworking in 4-H.
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Class or Challenge Title: Herbology
House: Ravenclaw :eagle:
Project Name & Page Link: Ombré Lattice Quilt top
Brief Description: This colorful quilt feels like a garden full of wildflowers!
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Class or Challenge Title: Iron Chef Hogwarts - Orange/Yellow
House: Ravenclaw :eagle:
Project Name & Page Link: The Best Pad Thai
Brief Description: This recipe contains a few orange and yellow ingredients. The palm sugar cakes and egg yolks are yellow, and the preserved reddish is orange (and sriracha is sort of red-orange). If you like pad thai make this recipe, it’s my favorite!
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Class or Challenge Title: Potions
House: Ravenclaw :eagle:
Project Name & Page Link: Organizing the Pantry
Brief Description: Since we bought our house 6 years ago we had been using those plastic garage shelves in our laundry room to serve as our dry goods pantry. It was never a good solution; but it was what we had. This spring I decided to make built in shelving. I used Ana White’s pantry shelving tutorial and it was so easy! i love everything being organized now!
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Class or Challenge Title: SoAR
House: Ravenclaw :eagle:
Project Name & Page Link: My Illithid Army
Brief Description: For the finale of the last story arc of my D&D campaign my players were going to be facing off against a group of Mind Flayers. Here are the six that I painted for the battle.
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Class or Challenge Title: Transfiguration
House: Ravenclaw :eagle:
Project Name & Page Link: Cherry Cola Cake
Brief Description: This year for my birthday I made Christina Tosi’s (of Milk Bar fame) Cherry Cola Cake. It was a fair bit of work and tracking down the cola extract proved difficult; but it was well worth the effort and would be a lovely addition to any tea service.
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In my gigantic project drop, I forgot to include my charms homework. :woman_facepalming:t2:

Class or Challenge Title: Charms
House: Ravenclaw :eagle:
Project Name & Page Link: A red feathered mini
Brief Description: I chose to focus on the color red for my assignment. I painted this aarakocra miniature for my husband to use in a one-shot game. I tried to create an ombré effect on the feathers going from orange to red to dark red.
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Wow, you have been busy! But that first quilt is just mind-blowingly amazing!

I am so in love with both quilts!!! Be sure to show them off in the Quiltalong too! :purple_heart: :blue_heart: :green_heart: :yellow_heart: :orange_heart: :heart:

Yay for crafty mojo! What an awesome collection of projects!

Those quilts are absolutely stunning @FiberAlchemist

I love the rainbow weaving @MistressJennie, and the bookworm embroidery is so cute @Abbeeroad

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Challenge: Detention - advanced studies
House: Hufflepuff
Project: birthday cake cardigan beginnings

I’m house sitting for my SiL this week, and so ive spent the weekend taking full advantage of her big ok tv and Netflix subscription! Saturday morning, I cast on my OWL and basically haven’t moved from the sofa since. I’m so happy with how this is coming out - the lice stitch is so much cuter than the name, no??

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So cute and I so love this pink, even though I am not generally a pink person

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Adorable!

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[ secretly hopes you make it too big and i can volunteer to take it off your hands ]

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Class or Challenge Title: Hermione’s Book Club, Ch 17
House: Gryffindor!
Project Name & Page Link: No-Bake Chocolate Chip & Zucchini Breakfast Bars
Brief Description: Summer has officially hit me here in Nashville. I’m trying to walk my dog as soon as I get up, to avoid the worst of the heat and humidity, then go swim to get my workout in for the day right after. Since I need to work in a healthy breakfast somewhere in between all that, I decided to try these no-bake bars to take on the walk with me, rather than do my usual sit-down bowl of steel cut oats. They are utterly delicious, but a bit sticky, and not good for carrying with you. Oh well! Eat one quick, then head out for an adventure it is then. I actually doubled the recipe, and this is 2 layers, of half of the 20 bars. The rest are frozen.
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Class or Challenge Title: House Pride
House: Gryffindor!
Project Name & Page Link: Whomping Willow Wall Decor
Brief Description: Gryffindor house is justly proud of our alumni. Especially Harry Potter and his good friend Ron Weasley. This is my ode to the Whomping Willow, including the flying Ford Anglia, made for momiemae in the Owl Post Swap. The car charm is actually on a magnet, so it can be removed if momiemae wants to hide her geekitude for visitors.
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Wow I Love the car charm :heart_eyes:

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That’s gorgeous Jennie! So thoughtful to make the car removable

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@MistressJennie I love, love that hoopla

Class or Challenge Title: Detention - Stash Challenge #1
House: Hufflepuff
Project Name & Page Link: Grow hoopla
Brief Description: Made for the make a friend swap, this was all made from stash - the felt, the thread, the wires, the embroidery hoop and the sequins.
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Class or Challenge Title: Detention - Stash Challenge #2
House: Hufflepuff
Project Name & Page Link: Altered record cards
Brief Description: I have never taken part in a swap using record cards before, I have only ever used them for memory cards for exams!! I had some in my stash and all the elements used to alter them also came from my stash.
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Class or Challenge Title: Detention - Stash Challenge #3
House: Hufflepuff
Project Name & Page Link: Recycled beads
Brief Description: These beads were made whilst taking part in a recycle challenge with my Brownie group, meeting via Zoom. I used magazine pages (I have far too many magazines in my stash that need recycling :roll_eyes:) to create both the beads and the paperchain.
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Class or Challenge Title: Headmistress - May
House: Hufflepuff
Project Name & Page Link: Mini Rainbow Book
Brief Description: This mini book, including a rainbow of colours plus black and white, is mostly paper, with some added elements as decoration
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Class or Challenge Title: Hermione’s Book Club, Chapter 17
House: Hufflepuff
Project Name & Page Link: Mini watercolour book
Brief Description: Part of the mini book swap included an even mini-er book of watercolour paintings of flowers. Watercolour painting is something I am practicing and getting better at with each attempt. These are my 3 favourites from the book.
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Class or Challenge Title: House Pride
House: Hufflepuff
Project Name & Page Link: Meatballs - French Onion Chicken Meatballs | Girl Gone Gourmet
Brief Description: It would be easy to underestimate this dish, as it looks fairly “beige” but the taste of these meatballs is amazing! Just like it is easy to underestimate us Hufflepuffs :smiley:
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Class or Challenge Title: House Unity
House: Hufflepuff
Project Name & Page Link: Mini Book Charm
Brief Description: This mini book charm incorporates the red and gold of our Gryffindor friends.
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I love that “Grow” hoop, so pretty!

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All of your projects are wonderful and full of color and details! I love the mini book.

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The flower hoop is so cheerful! Beautifully done too. (And obvs the rainbow book caught my eye, love the colours!)

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Class or Challenge Title: Detention - Stash #1
House: Gryffindor!
Project Name & Page Link: Bento Box Blocks for roler
Brief Description: I created 5 Bento Box blocks, all from stash, for roler in the Quilt Block Swap.
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Class or Challenge Title: Detention - Stash #2
House: Gryffindor!
Project Name & Page Link: Log Cabin Blocks for Abbeeroad
Brief Description: I couldn’t decide between two of the blocks on Abbeeroad’s wishlist, so I made a few of each. These Log Cabins are made with scraps of many other quilts, in earth tones.
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Class or Challenge Title: Detention - Stash #3
House: Gryffindor!
Project Name & Page Link: Modern Mosaic Blocks for Abbeeroad
Brief Description: This is the other block design I was interested in making a Modern Mosaic. For this one I went with scraps in black, white, grey, and mustard.
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Class or Challenge Title: House Unity
House: Gryffindor!
Project Name & Page Link: Star Blocks for AIMR
Brief Description: My final set of blocks were for AIMR. She’s working on a quilt that will be auctioned for Wouned Warriors. She requested Friendship Stars. It was really easy to make 4 at once using the Easy 8 HST Method. Since they were so fast and simple, I decided to make one more complicated block to go with them; Annie’s Choice.
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Hi everyone!

I’ve just caught up on all of your AMAZING projects :smiley: wow!! :star_struck:

There are loads of favourites among them :heart_eyes:

I know I haven’t posted much this term, but I definitely hope to be posting a whole lot more in the next term - I’ve really missed spending time with you all x

…a little side update - I’m currently up to audio book #7 (I don’t know what I’m going to do when it’s finished?!) Probably rewatch all the movies and start the audio books again :stuck_out_tongue: Stephen Fry’s voice has definitely been a regular comfort during the crap that is 'rona. We are currently in our 4th lockdown in Melbourne, Australia :pleading_face: I’m going to use it as a snap-out-of-crafting-rut reset.

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