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Class or Challenge Title: Flying
House: Slytherin
Project Name & Page Link: German Chocolate cake
Brief Description: I am absolutely flying after finally christening my new stand mixer by making a cake and frosting from scratch for the first time ever! (Well, I’ve made Bundt cake from scratch, but never a layer cake and never frosting). My cakeday was yesterday, so I made myself a gluten free German Chocolate cake. I subbed King Arthur measure for measure GF flour.
Modifications: Used a cup of coffee instead of the cup boiling water that the recipe called for. Doubled the coconut and added an extra half cup of pecans for the filling because it was too liquidy.
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Class or Challenge Title: Advanced Studies Update
House: Slytherin
I know it’s not Friday, but I have such a hard time finding time to post these days. I had the days off work on Friday, and I finally got the quilting done on my Autumn table topper! Going to try to get the binding sewn and attached today, since in using PTO time today.
Update: I cut, attached, and folded down the binding. She’s ready to be hand stitched on my next day off!



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Yay for AS progress/planning!

@Noodle - your proposal has been added to the log!

@CraftsUntold - that cake looks AMAZING! And awesome work on your table topper! Looking great!

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Happy belated Cake day!

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Your cake looks delicious, @CraftsUntold, and your table topper is beautiful! Happy belated birthday!

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Class or Challenge Title: Apparition
House: Slytherin
Project Name & Page Link: Quilt Mend
Brief Description: I patched a few little holes in my DH’s quilt. I cut circular patches, turned under the edges, and embroidered them to the quilt (stitching through all layers). I used an embroidery hoop to keep everything nice and snug.
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Class or Challenge Title: Headmistress - April Showers to Rainbow
House: Slytherin
Project Name & Page Link: Sunday Shawl
Brief Description: This mostly gray-skies shawl ends with a wide rainbow of lacy, textured stitches. I made this cotton shawl to wear on Easter Sunday, but it’s so soft and large, that I can see myself wearing it often.
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~ COMPLETED ADVANCED STUDIES ~
House: Slytherin
Project Name: Fifteen Stars Quilt
Project Page Link: Fifteen Stars Quilt
Brief Description: I used a pattern by Wilma Moss to make this twin-sized quilt for a friend of mine. The stars are paper pieced, a new technique for me. The rest of the top was pretty straightforward. I decided to do a pieced back, as well, since I found a beautiful and patriotic fabric panel that begged to be used.
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Beautiful topper, @CraftsUntold!

Challenge: Hermiones book club chapter 17
House: Hufflepuff
Project: several small bits
Each of these little jobs took like 10 mins a piece today, feels good to have got them crossed off the list! They are…

  • spray paint some charity shop photo frames ready to go up
  • remove & cut down the cute dividers from my old note book to fit into my new notebook, and remove the existing (ugly) ones. One of them now functions as the cover too
  • sew together the ends of the dog coat for my sister’s dog as its too small and so the velcro fastening doesn’t work
  • sew up a hole in the same sister’s top where the stitching had come away at the seam
  • trim down the plastic divider cut offs to go into the bookmark pot in my classroom

Class: potions
House: Hufflepuff
Project: colouring in :smile:
I brought my godchild the Heartstopper colouring book for their birthday, and this weekend when I was visiting they let me sit and colour while we chilled out watching TV. Highly recommend this graphic novel series for any YA fans - the show comes out on netflicks soon too

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Amazing work on your AS project! You earned 100 points for your house! :tada: :tada:

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Class or Challenge Title: Detention - WIP
House: Slytherin
Project Name & Page Link: Milky Way Landscape Embroidery
Brief Description: This piece has been in my WIP pile since the first Winter book swap. I started it to turn into an embroidered bookmark, and quickly realized I had made it too big. So, Geekgirl got another scene, and this one languished in a drawer. I picked it back up a few days ago and finished it up. It’ll go on my wall, next to the landscape embroidery piece that Geekgirl made me in that swap.
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Ooo…I love that! I have been wanting to try that style of embroidery.

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@tendstowardschaos beautiful colours on your shawl! I love the visible mending on your quilt too - did you manage to tension the thicknesses of a quilt in an ordinary embroidery ring, or is there a special type?

Challenge: Head’s Challenge April
House: Hufflepuff
Project: colour vocabulary banks

So, a trainee that I had before christmas brought in some colour vocabulary banks and I hate them (they are… just a list of things that colour, not proper colour words. No crimson or cyan, all ‘gerkin-green’ and ‘mocha-coloured.’ Ugh.). But my class love them. So I’ve made a replacement! I designed these on my tablet so they are digital files, I’ll print the two sides (1 side colour words, 1 side broader descriptions about colour such as vivid, dappled and harmonious) back to back so the kids can just grab a sheet if they want one while we are writing

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Hey all, I am sorry for being MIA, March and this month have really been busy for me but I have been able to get some crafting done.

Challenge: Potions
House: Slytherin
Title: Postpartum Sitz Bath

I created a postpartum sitz bath for one of my clients,
Herbs included:
Lavender
Calendula
Chammomile
Comfrey
Yarrow
Sea Salt
I boiled some water in my electric teapot, while it was boiling, I stuffed some natural tea bags with the ingredients, I used two tea bags for all of the herbs. I placed it into a mason jar and poured the boiled distilled water over the tea bags and closed the lid. I allowed the herbs to brew overnight.
After brewing, I transferred the brew into a sitz bottle and placed 3 drops of rosemary essential oil in the brewed medicine before putting the lid on.

My client was very happy to receive this to assist with her healing after birth.


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Challenge: Flying
House: Slytherin
Title: Chunky Birthday Sweater
Pattern Easy Crochet Cropped Sweater - Free Pattern + Video | For The Frills

So I wanted to make a cute bday sweater for myself. It turned out to be a little too large but I still liked it. I used Bernat Softee Chunky Yarn colors Brass and Black. It took me about 3 weeks to work on it and I finished it right before I went out to dinner on my birthday.

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That sweater looks awesome! I can’t believe you stitched it up so quickly!

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I have been horribly delinquent in posting my projects this term. Playing a little bit of catch up!

Class: Alchemy
House: Gryffindor
Project Name & Page Link: Abstract Flower Journal Page
Brief Description: Using basic shapes of squares and triangles, I painted up this spread in my art journal based on one of Alisa Burke’s classes.
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Class: Divination
LC Challenge: Inspired-along Challenge Entry
House: Gryffindor
Project Name & Page Link: Knitted Fingerless Gloves
Brief Description: My hands had been feeling a bit cold with this back and forth spring weather, so I stitched up a pair of fingerless gloves to help keep the chill out!
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Challenge: Headmistress Challenge: April
House: Gryffindor
Project Name & Page Link: Tie Dye Onesies
Brief Description: Made for a friend, these colorful onesies contain all the colors of the rainbow!
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Class: Herbology
House: Gryffindor
Project Name & Page Link: Wild Hippie Stitch
Brief Description: This little stitch certainly makes my heart happy!
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Class: Transfiguration
House: Gryffindor
Project Name & Page Link: “Key” Lime Pie
Brief Description: I made this pie for my MIL’s birthday. Key lime pie is one of her favorite desserts. It’s magical how a little time in the oven makes this pie set beautifully!
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~ ADVANCED STUDIES PROPOSAL ~
Project Name: Everyday Raglan
House: Gryffindor
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I will attempt to knit my first sweater! I’m going to use the Sheep and Stitch Everyday Raglan pattern/tutorial. I will use Cascade Yarns Ecological Wool in natural gray (2 skeins). I have the circular needles, but need to acquire the size US 8 and 10 DPNs. I expect this will take me several months. I’ll be lucky if it’s ready for this coming winter!

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I love you flowers! They are so nice! The bold colors and the square-ness of them!

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Thanks, I got most done during my Postpartum shifts

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@Abbeeroad I really like your Wild Hippie Stitch project. I wish my eyes would allow me to do cross-stitch and embroidery like my younger days

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Class or Challenge Title: Alchemy
House: Hufflepuff
Project Name & Page Link: Loom Book Bracelet
Brief Description: I made this bracelet for my friend gozer for the fill a flate rate box swap. She loves books, so I found this cute little book charm and added it to the bracelet.
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Class or Challenge Title: Apparition
House: Hufflepuff
Project Name & Page Link: Spring Loom Bracelet
Brief Description: I made this bracelet for the Easter swap. It features little round beads and a cute button. I added a little butterfly charm to it.
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Class or Challenge Title: Herbology
House: Hufflepuff
Project Name & Page Link: Potions of Greater Healing
Brief Description: Our D&D group came from out of town to visit last week. My husband thought it would be fun to make some healing potions as gifts for them, so I set out to just so. We purchased bottled and half filled them with red resin, that I mixed and colored with shimmering mica powder. Once cured, we added 4 d4 dice that we had purchased inside. So you can shake the bottle and dump the contents and add up the dice values, add 4 and that is how much healing you would take. I added some twine to the outside and little labels that I designed in photoshop, printed and laminated. I love how they turned out and I’m ready for some more resin adventures!
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Class or Challenge Title: Muggle Studies
House: Hufflepuff
Project Name & Page Link: Snoopy charm items
Brief Description: I made a Snoopy keychain and Snoopy bookmark for the Easter Swap. My printer decided to stop working, so I traced the design directly off my ipad and onto the shrink material. It was the silliest method that I’ve done to transfer something, but I had a “make it work” moment, and succeeded.
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Class or Challenge Title: Transfiguration
House: Hufflepuff
Project Name & Page Link: Lemon Bundt Cake
Brief Description: I made this lemon bundt cake for my sister for birthday. She wanted a lighter dessert, and this fit the bill. It was delicious!

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Class or Challenge Title: History of Magic (HoM)
House: Hufflepuff
Project Name & Page Link: Cat Cross Stitch
Brief Description: I picked out what I thought would be a quicker design for my swap partner, gozer. Nope! I’m a slow stitcher! Even though I was working on it for a month, the last week I had to do a big push to get it done in time. Phew!
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Class or Challenge Title: Divination
House: Hufflepuff
Project Name & Page Link: “I’m a King Prawn, Ok”
Brief Description: My youngest loves Pepe the King Prawn. I searched and searched for a design I could put on a sweatshirt for her, but I couldn’t find anything. So I printed off a picture, traced around it with a sharpie. I then scanned the design and cleaned it up in photoshop. I uploaded that into cricut and had it cut out the HTV and then applied it to the sweatshirt. Turned out pretty good! Lots of little lines, though!
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Class or Challenge Title: April - Showers to Rainbows
House: Hufflepuff
Project Name & Page Link: Faux Leather Bookmarks
Brief Description: I’m discovering all the things I can use my cut out of faux leather with my cricut! This time I did bookmarks! I found some cute faux leather and cut out some cheery designs for my kiddos and my swap partner, gozer!
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Class or Challenge Title: Study of Ancient Runes
House: Hufflepuff
Project Name & Page Link: Bob’s Burgers Sweatshirt
Brief Description: My friend gozer like’s Bob’s Burgers. I needed a little bulk for her package, so I decided to make her a sweatshirt! I found a cute on at Old Navy and bought the design off Etsy. I cut it out on HTV with my cricut and ironed it on. I love the little ripples of water at the bottom of the canoe, though they were super difficult to weed. lol! But it turned out super cute!
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Phew! I think that is all that I can fit into the prompts for now! :wink:

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Wow! Those are some beautiful projects!!!

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