That is some serious food prep!
Class or Challenge Title: Charms
House: Gryffindor!
Project Name & Page Link: Godzilla Baby Maternity Tee
Brief Description: This project is all for me! Back when my husband & I learned we were having a girl, he gave her the placeholder name of ‘Abigail Godzilla’, and we’ve been calling her Godzilla since then. I’ll be telling my parents about her on Thanksgiving. Since we can’t do it in person, I decided to send them some pictures of the ‘three’ of us. I made this tee with heat transfer vinyl, so little Godzilla could be visible in the picture. I found an image of Godzilla holding a plane, and edited it to be a baby bottle, then added the bow and hearts. After all, girls can grow up to be giant lizard sea creatures warped by nuclear bombs too! This is a quick selfie, but the project post does contain the posed family photo with my husband and I.
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I’m not dead! Just overwhelmed by baby. 
Class or Challenge Title: Headmistress Challenge - November
House: Slytherin
Project Name & Page Link: Gluten Free Pumpkin Pie
Brief Description: Made pumpkin pies to share with family. First time making pie crust from scratch, using my usual pumpkin pie recipe. makes 2 pies. I used the crust recipe from the King Arthur gluten free apple pie . Filling is as follows:
(1) 29oz can pumpkin puree
(2) cans Eagle sweetened condensed milk
4 eggs
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
Do not blind bake crust. Bake at 375 F for 15 min, lower temp to 325 for another 40 min or so.
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Congrats!
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Those quilts are gorgeous!
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~ COMPLETED ADVANCED STUDIES ~
House: Hufflepuff
Brief Description: I finished!! I love these “Clyde Pants”. The large pockets are wonderful and the linen feels great. It took a few different pattern alterations to get the perfect fit, but so worth it. https://elizabethsuzannstudio.com/collections/clothing-accessories/products/clyde-work-pant-in-cotton-canvas-clay
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Wow! That quilt is amazing 
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I love your shirt! How have you been feeling? Hopefully you haven’t had too much of the first trimester icky’s. Congratulations!!
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Thank you! Honestly, the worst part of the pregnancy was the huge injections my husband had to give me every night for the first 12 weeks, due to going the IVF route. Each one was 2ml of thick oil, with a huge needle. They took forever to inject. And the estrogen patches that went with them took layers of skin off my abdomen. LOL Other than that, as long as I eat something every 1.5-2 hours, I’ve been feeling pretty good. I was tired in the first trimester, but nothing terrible, and now that I’m in the second, I’m not as exhausted. I’m still swimming laps, albeit slower, and walking the neighborhood. 
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I’ve missed so many lovely projects.
@MistressJennie You are a canning machine, and they all look so tempting.
@tendstowardschaos that yarn looks great. I may be slowly tending towards spinning, but I will see how the dyeing of the yarn that is on the way to me goes first. And that quilt is just gorgeous
@plaidpineapple those pants are wonderful, the pockets!
@Noodle I am in awe of anyone who can do fairisle knitting, and for fun?!
Class Astro
House Ravenclaw
Project, The gentlemans wardrobe of the wayward bee. This was a big project to put some love into a very neglected little piece of furniture, it has it’s own thread here Gentleman's wardrobe of the wayward bee
but this is what it looks like now.
This is the before
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Pop Quiz: What do you guys think of a small version of the HP Holiday Swap?
I’ve been so distracted with the pregnancy this fall, that I didn’t set up our usual HP Holiday earlier. It normally includes 2 weeks of signups and 4 weeks of crafting, and up to 3 partners. TBH, that’s just too much for my brain to handle right now. But I know a lot of folks really love the swap, and love adding to their collection of ornaments. So… I’m thinking of signups today, through the 30th. Then Sendouts on December 14th. Hard deadline. No late sends! Because if anyone is late, their packages won’t arrive in time, with the holiday rush the postal service expects. So because of the shorter crafting time, I’m thinking just 1 partner per person.
If people are interested and want it, I’ll set it up today. If this feels too rushed and like not enough time, we’ll skip it for this year, no hard feelings.
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Class or Challenge Title: Transfiguration
House: Slytherin
Project Name & Page Link: Christmas Stollen
Brief Description: my second year making gluten free Stollen. I have adjusted the recipe by adding more xantham gum to the gluten free flour, and letting it proof longer.
Waiting for the fruit to soak in the rum, waiting for the dough to proof, and finally waiting at least a week for the finished loaves to “ripen”, this is a lot of waiting.
(Loaves are currently wrapped up and sitting in the pantry shelf in the garage).
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Jennie you look glowing!
And omg that Rainbow quilt is stunning.
Quick project from me:
Class: SOAR
House: Hufflepuff
Project:
This cowl was knit using what is honestly the squishiest, smooshiest, softest yarn I’ve ever come across - it’s a cashmere, merino, alpaca blend, handdyed from a local artist. It’s a Christmas gift for a colleague who had been so lovely and welcoming in my new job that u wanted to say a special thank you to her. We share classes (I teach my specialist subjects, and she hers) so our kids know I’ve been making it and they are so excited for me to give it to her, it’s adorable
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Oh I love this. Really beautiful highlighting and lowlighting. This would be a wonderful technique for a tablescape or a series of glass vases also.
Class: Astronomy
House: Hufflepuff
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Organising circular needles is usual a hot topic of chat amongst knitters. Ideally they want to be sorted by both lenght and diameter, easy to get in and out, not getting tangled or too squashed up…
I’ve previously used these plastic wallets, which works OK but they are so ugly, and a bit fiddly.
I saw on twitter a knitter who used these photo storage boxes and couldn’t resist. I’ll admit that there’s no sorting by lenght, but they are so SO much prettier and that makes me happy! And not so squished up, even where I have several needles in a size. A bit improvement if you ask me!
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Ooh, nice storage fix. I’ve never seen those little boxes that fit into the scrapbook cases.
House: Hufflepuff
Class or Challenge Title: Detention WIP
Project Name & Page Link: Flannel Blanket
I started this flannel quilt/blanket a couple years ago and then stuffed it away to be forgotten until recently. I have a stack of WIPs i really need to get done to clear up some room.
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Class or Challenge Title: Book Club chapter 11
House: Slytherin
Project Name & Page Link: Advent Calendar for kids
Brief Description: A little late but no other challenge has been posted so I’m taking the chance!!! I’ve gone from a mother of one to a mother of two, if we don’t count the puppy that is. This year I decided to make them advent calendars and made 48 bags that fit the different sweet bags we bought. I also made the tags and then finished them off.
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Class or Challenge Title: Apparation
House: Sytherin
Project Name & Page Link: Apple crumble pie -recipe-
Brief Description: I’d love to travel once to USA and travel through the country exploring it. One thing I think about when I think USA is apple pie, and as I had some old apples that I needed to either use or throw I made this pie. My son loved it.
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Class or Challenge Title: Iron chef November
House: Slytherin
Project Name & Page Link: baleadas -recipe-
Brief Description: I love beans and I just had to try this recipe, it was amazing I love it, and so does the others who has tried it
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You are ALWAYS free to post a project for a dated challenge (like Book Club), if a new one has not been posted yet. If for example, I am 3 days late, you get that bonus 3 days. And once I DO post a new one, you have until the end of that day to get the old one in. So for example, I’m about to post a new Book Club prompt now. And if someone else came along in an hour, they could still post the old one until the end of today. 
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