Term Begins June 1st… Please don’t post here until then!
Welcome to the Quidditch World Cup!
~ June 1 - August 31, 2025 ~
WELCOME TO THE HARRY POTTER CRAFTALONG - SUMMER QUIDDITCH EDITION!
The Harry Potter Craftalong (HPC) is a way to share your crafts, cheer on friends, celebrate your love of Harry Potter, and most of all to be inspired.
If you have been curious about us in the past, but worried about joining such a long-running Craftalong, NOW is the perfect time to join in. The Craftalong has been reimagined, and is going in new direction. Each session we will have prompts inspired by the Wizarding World, Molly’s Housecraft Challenges to motivate you on mundane tasks, & the occasional Minister of Magic Mission. Complete crafts inspired by these prompts, and you earn Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans for your Team. While the prompts themselves are HP themed, your crafts do not have to be. You may craft anything you wish. You may join anytime during a term, and participate as much as you like.
Each regular project is worth 10 Bertie Bott’s Beans for your Team. LC Challenge entries, items for LC Swaps, or charity creations, will all earn you 10 Bonus Beans! And Minister for Magic Missions earn a whopping 30 Beans! At the end of each term, we will take an average of each Team’s total, and declare a winning Team!
This shorter SUMMER TERM is inspired by the the most popular game in the Wizarding World, QUIDDITCH!
To participate, first choose a team. Then read through the prompts below, create a craft to fit the challenge, and post it here. If your project doesn’t fit any prompts, or if you’ve already fulfilled a prompt it fits, simply label it as Crafter’s Choice #1, #2, etc. (You may submit Crafter’s Choice as many times up to 10 times.) That’s all there is to it!
~ HOW TO POST ~
To submit a project, cut & paste the following header into your post, and fill in the required info. You can add more than one project to your post.
Prompt/Challenge Title:
Project Name & Page Link: Add a link to your project posted here on Lettuce Craft, or to a recipe, pattern, etc.
LC Contest/LC Swap/Charity Item: If your item is for an LC contest or swap, or is for a charity, enter that here; if not please delete this line.
Team:
Brief Description: How it fits the requirements, pattern/techniques used, any fun tips, etc.
~ ABOUT ELIGIBLE HPC PROJECTS ~
-Projects should take a minimum of 30 minutes to make.
-For a project to be counted, it must have a picture or a link to a picture included at the time of posting.
~ HPC FAQs ~
-Which Team am I on? Your choice! But whichever team you choose, you must keep for the rest of the term. After that, you may switch if you wish.
-I have a problem or question; who can I ask? You can send a Personal Message (PM) to @MistressJennie . You can also ask questions in the thread.
-Do I have to craft all the prompts & challenges? Nope!
-Does my craft project have to be Harry Potter themed? Nope!
-This is a lot of info. How do I keep myself organized? Feel free to use Hermione’s Homework Planner , a Google Doc created & updated by MistressJennie. Claim a sheet of the Homework Planner at the bottom of the page, and rename it with your username. Please DO NOT alter the Master Sheet at the far left.
Preseason Training - Get ready for an excellent Quidditch season by getting in plenty of practice with something you’re not great at. If sewing zippers confounds you, make a zippered pouch; if you can never get your quiche to come out right, take time to perfect your recipe!
Keeper - Sometimes we guard our stash too closely. Take this chance to use up a ton of stash in some way. Cut up a bunch of scraps into Charm Squares and make a quilt top, or stash busting all your small balls of leftover yarn into a giant scrappy basket. Using a bit of a new supply is fine, as long as it allows you to use up stash. (Example: Buying a spool or black thread, so you can sew all your dark fabric scraps together.)
Beater - Beaters work as a pair, to keep the rest of the team safe. Craft something that will keep someone or something safe. A bucket hat to protect your kiddo from the sun, potholders to protect you from hot pans, or a fabric cover to protect your Kindle, etc.
Teamwork - All great Quidditch players know that they are only as good as their team. Please celebrate the magic of groups, by crafting something for a party of at least 5+ people. This could be cupcakes to share with your coworkers, a lawn game to be played by several children, or a large afghan your whole family can snuggle under for family movie night.
Seeker - Seek out something fascinating! An intriguing pattern to try, a new craft you’d never heard of before, an amazing supply you saw and just had to buy, etc.
Seven - Seven has long been seen as a magical number in mythology, science and mathematics, so it is no surprise that each Quiddich team consists of 7 members. Share with us a project that uses this magical number in some way, such as using 7 shades of the rainbow, or 7 different materials.
Beater Bats - Beater’s use wooden bats to hit Bludgers away from their team’s players. Craft something that uses a wooden tool in its construction, such as a wooden paintbrush for a watercolor, of a wood handled hammer to build a new set of shelves.
Quaffle - The Quaffle is a ball with indentations for the players to grip. Please get to grips with a WIP that has been lingering around your space. The quilt you cut out the pieces for, but never put together, the mending that has been piling up, etc. Alternately you may make a batch of waffles, or anything with a waffle-like texture.
Bludger - A bludger is a ball that flies at all players, attempting to knock them off their brooms. Please ‘knock something off’ your To Do list, that you’ve been meaning to get to for a while now.
Snitch - The Snitch is a curious magical object that has flesh memory, meaning it can recognize the first person to touch it. Makers wear gloves while creating them, so that the first person to touch it will be the Seeker who captures it. Please craft something that retains the memory of touch, or that you must wear gloves to create. This could be something like a garden stepping stone with your child’s hand print, beads created from air dry clay that retains your fingerprints, or using a material like Apoxie Sculpt, which you wear gloves to kneed before using.
Goal Hoops - Craft something that is round or hoop shaped, or comes in a set of three. Alternately, please craft something that is a large personal crafting goal, such as creating that epic fandom afghan or repainting your deck.
Quidditch Cup - A cup or trophy is a symbol of the winning team’s victory and a reward for their hard work. Reward yourself in some way, for all your hard work learning your craft(s) over the years. Now that you’re a great knitter, buy the fancy yarn you’ve had your eye on, and make yourself a sweater. Decide that you deserve a dedicated craft space, and set yourself up a desk or cart to create from.
Crafter’s Choice - If you have a project that doesn’t fit any of the prompts, or you have already fulfilled the prompt it fits, you may still post it as “Crafter’s Choice” for 10 Beans. You may submit as many projects as you wish under this option. When using this option, please number your Crafter’s Choice posts to help keep it clear when tracking points. (Ie: Crafter’s Choice 
Molly’s Housecraft Challenges 
WIP Challenge: The work of a mum of 7 never seems to end. Please complete a Work In Progress.
Reparo: Channel your inner Arthur and repair something, alter something, or organize something.
Karasjok Kites (Norway) 
Moose Jaw Meteorites (Canada) 
Moutohora Macaws (New Zealand) 
