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Awesome, awesome, jennie. And I love the HPA water bottle!

Class/Challenge/House Pride: Detention with Lockheart
House: Gryffindor!
Project Name: Coffee cup cozy
Project Page Link (if available): http://cosmocricket.typepad.com/cosmo_cricket/2011/12/coffee-cup-cozies-free-pattern.html
Brief Description: I used the button!! Yay! I also used my newly dyed fire and ice fabric
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Class/Challenge/House Pride: Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans: Grass
House: Gryffindor
Project Name: Recycled T-shirt Produce Bag
Project Link: http://deliacreates.blogspot.com/2011/05/greeneasy-knit-produce-bag.html
Brief Description: I've wanted one of these for a few years now, and I finally dug up an old t-shirt (clean of course!) to give this tute a go. It was pretty easy! I modified a bit for the handle, and had to re-sew some of my holes as they were too large and the tangerines fell right through! But overall, I'm happy and excited to use this on my next produce run!
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Love all the weekend additions! I always have so much to catch up on!

Maman - I love your drawings! Moaning Myrtle is great. I just watched the Dr. Who episode with Shirley Henderson in it, so I'm feeling new appreciation for Myrtle. I think you captured her beautifully.

noodlebug - love the socks! Way to honor Dobby!

TechnicolorAquahear ts - super cute dino!!

Class/Challenge/House Pride: History of Magic
House: Gryffindor
Project Name: Fire and Ice Snow Dye
Brief Description: Just having some fun with the snow before it melts! I added some red and blue powder dye (Dylon) on top of a nice layer of snow and let it melt onto my fabric. I ended up with a pool of liquid on top of my fabric and was worried I'd get too much blending and saturation. But I was pleasantly surprised!
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All this chocolate is making me hungry!! Even your yummy yarn, Maman! 

Class/Challenge/House Pride: Muggle Studies
House: Gryffindor
Project Name: Mario Question Block Valentines
Project Page Link (if available): http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=420324.0
Brief Description: Inspired by the Mario muggle video games, these question block valentines are made from paper bags and stuffed with chocolate coins! Happy Valentine's Day everyone!
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Happy Valentine's Day! 

Mario is really big in our house right now, so of course we had to make Mario inspired valentines!

I started with paper bags I collected from the local grocery store and cut them into 4 x 4 squares. I then drew the question block details and colored it in with washable markers. Then some stamping on the back and at least 2 hours of agonizing name writing by my three year old. Finally, I sewed up three of the four sides and slipped in some chocolate covered coins! The whole thing went into a paper bag envelope finished with a smiley face star!

I hope they are hit today at the party!







Thanks for the viewing love! 

I made this quilt for wdicwg in the Mini Art Quilt Swap Round 6. It's my first MAQ and I'm really happy with how it came out!

The artsy, filtered, thumbnail pic:


The tree is supposed to be inspired by Tim Burton, and the colors were specified by my partner (purple, lime green, and turquoise). I machine stitched the sky and the grass to a plain piece of muslin and used reverse applique for the tree.



I added hand-sewn embellishments to the sky and to give it a "stitched together" kind of look. Because I don't really know how to machine stitch, I embroidered a rolling landscape for the ground and then made the backing/binding one piece.



I added the loops using some cool tree branch buttons I got in a swap a while ago.

I had a lot of fun making this for the MAQ swap! Thanks for looking!

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Just finished the last stitch in my NEWT!  Now to weave in ends...

Can't wait to see!

Puppies are sooooo cute!!

Congrats WotW!! Couldn't be better chosen!
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Class/Challenge/House Pride: Bertie Bott's Chocolate Challenge
House: Gryffindor!
Project Name: Post-snow Hot Cocoa
Project Page Link: Recipe: http://homecooking.about.com/od/beveragerecipes/r/blbev3.htm
Brief Description: After a long day playing in the snow, nothing's better than a nice cup of hot cocoa!
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Class/Challenge/House Pride: Divination
House: Gryffindor!
Project Name: Twisted Tree Art Quilt
Project Page Link: http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=420254.0
Brief Description: I made this for the mini art quilt swap. The tree is reverse applique and all the "quilting" is hand sewn. I had a lot of fun making this. The tree was my partner's request, but in tasseomancy, it represents family or roots. A bare tree can represent family conflict. So, you've got strong family roots, but you're conflicted about it?
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Abbee- nice cuff! Did you stamp the letters or print them?

Thanks! They are stamped And your quilt is looking great! Now who needs to slow down?! I have no progress to report as I need more interfacing and just haven't made it out to get more. Soon.

Melissaurus - LOVE your prayer flag set!!
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Class/Challenge: Herbology
House: Gryffindor
Project Name: Snowball Shield
Project Page Link: n/a
Brief Description: Yay for snow! Snowpocolypse Nemo (yes, really) just hit Jersey and we're out enjoying it while it lasts! We built Fort DJO and had fun throwing snowballs until someone got hungry... Of course DJ needed some snowball protection, so I made him a little shield out of an old cereal box and some duct tape.




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Feel better, pinkleo!!

I think I'm going to watch some Dr. Who today with a nice cup of hot cocoa...

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Class/Challenge/House Pride: Flying and Gryffindor Feb Extra Credit
House: Gryffindor!
Project Name: Art Cuff
Project Page Link (if available): n/a
Brief Description: Inspired by the recent mini art quilt swap, which I had a lot of fun participating in, and my new metal stamping supplies (still getting the hang of the smaller "canvas"), I made this little fabric cuff. It's more colorful than my usual style, so it will definitely make me more visible. Especially against all the snow we are supposed to get this weekend!
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I finally made some progress on my NEWT today. Not much, but I cut out my interfaced pieces and sewed together some of the squares. I'm still going to put a black border around the smaller square pieces, but here's what I have laid out so far. I've got at least two or three more rows on the bottom, possibly one row wider, plus a border around the whole thing. Not to mention quilting and backing and binding. So still a looooong way to go.