For a new year's gift for my Grandmother, I scavenged craftster for inspiration. In the list of handmade gift ideas, if found these instructions to crochet a lace bowl.

It's been really hard to make good pictures, but I hope these will give a good impression.







I'll be filling the bowl with tea and homemade gingerbread

C&C always appreciated.

I saw this project in the list of suggestions for handmade gifts, and I made one myself for my granmother! Thanks for sharing the pattern

Challenge: Quidditch tryouts, Seeker/House Unity
House: Slytherin
Project Name: Redhot Potholder
Brief Description: Crocheted potholder for my mom to replace one I had crocheted years ago that has since been lost. It's also to replace one of her old, dingy ones. This one is made better than the old one because my skills have improved.

My mom likes red, especially bright red, so I used some Lion Brand Hometown USA in Cincinnati Red Gryffindor Red to make this. While crocheting this I learned that this type of yarn is hard to work with an H/8 hook. When I get a proper hook, according to the label it's an N/13, I'll be making more of these for her.

Congratulations FreakieGeekie, for making the Quidditch team! Such dedication to apply so quickly Here is your badge to proudly show you've made it on the team.

You are on a roll, FiberAlchemist! So many great projects  Better keep a good eye on those projects, or they might disappear into somebody's pockets. Love every single one of them.

Class/Challenge/House Pride: Ancient Runes
House: Slytherin
Project Name: Doctor Who Mug
Project Page Link (if available):
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=417852.msg4944811#msg4944811
Brief Description:
Runestones are used to comemmorate great people, great acts or monumental events. If in the history of the world, there is one great person who has done many great acts and was at every single monumental event, it must be the Doctor, so for my Ancient Runes assignment, I decided to make something to commemorate his ninth, tenth and eleventh incarnations. I know it is usual to only erect runestones for the deceased, but since the Doctor is sort of immortal ánd constantly travelling to time, making it near impossible to tell if at any certain point in time he is alive or dead, I felt I might as well pay tribute.

I used porcelain paint to decorate a mug with the TARDIS, the buzzwords of nine, ten and eleven, and some hidden "Bad Wolf" grafitti (on it's own comemmorating a monumental event, where Rose took those words and scattered them through time and space to lead herself to the place where she must be). It's a Christmas present for a friend, and my boyfriend has commisioned one for himself too!
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Another craft to give for Christmas! I painted a Doctor Who themed mug with porcelain paint, TARDIS on the front, buzzwords from the 9th, 10th and 11th doctor on the back, and a piece of hidden bad wolf grafitti on the bottom



Fun detail which I forgot to take a picture of: I bought a mug that's blue on the inside. Not quite the same colour as the paint I used, but close My boyfriend already told me I need to go out and buy a second mug to make him one too! C&C always welcomed.

Class/Challenge/House Pride: December Detention in the Dungeons
House: Slytherin
Project Name: Galifreyan Cherry Pip Pad Cover
Project Page Link (if available): http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=417730.msg4942703#msg4942703
Brief Description:
We're having an anonymous, lucky dip Christmas swap at another forum I am a member of. I drew the name of a Doctor Who fangirl (and on the other forum I'm a member of, I got a Doctor Who fanboy, hence all the Doctor Who crafts lately ) and since I'm pretty adamant about gifts being not only fun and beautiful, but also practical, I bought a heating pad and made a custom slip cover. It closes with velcro in the back. The Galifreyan script spells out the recipients name in Sherman's Galifreyan. I normally prefer Doctor's Cot Galifreyan, but Sherman's is a lot easier to embroider!
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I've made this as a gift for a friend for the holidays. I bought a cherry pip heating pad and sewed and embroidered a cover. It's the recipients name in Sherman's Galifreyan, I hope it will be well received. The cover closes with velcro in the back.

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Class/Challenge/House Pride: Potions (+ second geminio)
House: Slytherin
Project Name: Weeping angel ornaments
Project Page Link:http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=417726.0
Brief Description:
In our set of straw Christmas decorations were 6 angels I didn't particularly like. They had big glittery bows which were very out of place, and the angels just weren't my style. Since I've been doing a lot of Doctor Who crafting for the holidays, I got the idea to make weeping angel ornaments. Each angel is 5 cm (~2 inches) tall, and I made 2 seperate styles. Getting the angels arms to stay in place while the glue was drying was no easy feat, but I got it to work
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Welcome to the craftalong and to Slytherin house, TechnicolorAquahear ts! Love your OWL and your owl I haven't made a plan for Quidditch yet, but hope to come up with something over next week.

We had a straw set of Christmas decorations, and I loved nearly all of it, except for the angels. The big glittery bow really wasn't working for me, and I' not a big fan of angels anyway. I had the idea to modify them!


I started with 6 angels and 1 of the stars (we had too many anyway)


I then deconstructed them:


With a bit of glue, I made 2 styles of angels:


Add some gray paint, and voila: weeping angel ornaments!

[@Naantje]

@Naantje: ♥ ♥ your Tardis!  And ~*As per my owl, your new OWL is Approved*~  Best of luck on your scarf knitting; I do know know that is a difficult charm to master.

Aw This is why I love the craftalong, generally I get more replies here than in my topics. (Which I totally get, I'm not really quick to post in other people's project topics either, though I generally like the stuff that is made!)

Also, as per your owl, here is a progress pic of my OWL project. You'll see a small mistake in the seventh rib from the left, under the black stripe. I knit three stitches where I should have purled and vice versa, so there's a noticeable error on both sides of the scarf. Still, you have to look closely to notice, I don't really mind. It's 20 cm long right now. Aiming for about 180cm, as I read that scarves should be about as long as the wearer is tall and my boyfriend is between 175-180cm tall. I've got my work cut out for me, that's for sure!