Class: SoAR + SPEW
House: Slytherin
Project: I had some Red Heart baby yarn in Cherry Cola in my stash, and as I have instituted a Yarn Embargo for myself until I move much of the old yarns out of the hoard collection. I want to at least and projects for the leftover yarns from projects past. Many of the projects were for new babies so the yarns are all in that category. I decided that I would use them up for the children's section of the hospital and the NICU. So this little baby sweater is going to the hospital for a sick baby or a baby who needs some extra clothes because of finances. I am not totally in love with how the yarn worked up, but someone will like it- and it kind of has that 'pink camo' look about it that might be good for a baby fighting disease or something. A little strength sweater, maybe?  Anyway, here it is:



There are no buttons (which kills me because there are SO MANY cute ones) due to choking hazard fears at the recipient site. Silly babies, putting things in their mouths. hmph. Don't they know that it affects MY crafting! Sheesh.

I have blurry eyes from knitting for nearly 2 days straight! (one bonus for not having kids/spouse/job...!)

I made the knight bus block and this one:

Class: Alchemy
House: Slytherin
Project: The Deathly Hallows Afghan Square
Link:http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/deathly-hallows
How it fits: In Deathly Hallows (ch.23) Malfoy Manor is discovered to be the host to an albino peacock. In it's honor I have used a white/almost silver gray yarn to work up the symbol for the Hallows square for my geeky blanket gift.
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Once again we beg your pardon that she isn't blocked yet!

And now I'm off to ice the ol' wrists!
Goodnight!

Here's my latest, I repectfully submit this square and will defer to the Headmistresses if they think it is too much of a stretch for the assignment.

Class/Challenge: House Unity
House: Slytherin
Project Name: Sorting Hat Afghan Square
Project Page Link (if available): http://www.ravelry.com/designers/marie-wright  (you will see a fair few of these this semester.  )
Brief Description: This is one more square (of a hopeful 72!) for the geeky wedding gift blanket I am making. I felt it was a good candidate for House Unity as he composes and sings songs of the four houses every year before he decides which students will go into each house. He has been around since the time of the four founders and clearly has a connection to them still as he can call forth the Sword of Gryffindor from his depths.  (Although this may be more because he was originally G.'s own personal hat. Hard to know.)

[Imogene Atbury,]

Slytherin house Honors Draco Malfoy on his 33rd birthday today!

This evening in the library's Reading Room Slytherin is hosting guest speaker
Imogene Atbury,
who has studied the Malfoy family extensively for her soon to be released unauthorised biography
Peccata Patris: The Draco Malfoy Story.
Discussion to follow.
All are welcome to attend.

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In Draco's honor consider crafting an item involving:

Birthday cakes, Birthday traditions
Malfoy or his family
Dobby, their erstwhile House Elf
The struggle between choosing our fates and having them chosen for us by parents or outside influences. (That would be a doozy!)

Class: Transfiguration
Houssssse: Slytherin
Project: Chinese Fireball Afghan Square
Link: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/chinese-fireball-dragon
Description: My friend is getting married in the fall and she and her him are huge fans of various fandoms- so much so that their wedding reception will be chock full of wee Jayne hats, Potter wands and the like. For the wedding gift I am making an Afghan of Fandoms Galore. Here is the Dragon square for HP. I'm debating if I could do three more in colors for the GoT dragons, too. They are different shapes though. We'll see. (Please pardon his appearance, I haven't blocked him yet!)
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Transfiguration: Draconifors is a spell used to transform something into a dragon.  Okay, focus.  Concentrate on which dragon you would like to conjure up.   Have it in your mind?  Okay now pick your target.  With a slash wand at the target, cast the Draconifors Spell.  To prove your focus and mastery of this spell, you must create an item inspired by a particular dragon.  From a Chinese Fireball to a Ukrainian Ironbelly, it is your choice, but you must identify your dragon when turning in.

[~Slytherin House Points~]

ANNOUNCEMENT: Would the student who charmed women's bikinis onto several grindylow in the patch of lake grasses outside our common room window please undo that horror.  There are things that can't be unseen, and that especially attention hungry grindylow making eyes at students through the glass is certainly one of them.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Pertaining to the first announcement: It has come to our attention that rather than removing the Grindylows's revealing swimwear students have instead magicked up a "Club Med" style clubhouse for the cavorting creatures.  This has resulted in debauchery which is unsuitable for our younger students.  If the originators of these shenanigans do no step forward and remove the enchantments all students will be facing the music. Speaking of music: The staff has taken the liberty of removing the Grindylow's sound system after last evening's three hour long repetition of some torture we are told is called "Salt 'n' Peppa". Hopefully there will be no more Gryndylow's "Pushin' it," real good or otherwise.

ANNOUNCEMENT:  Thank you for finally removing all spells on the resident Grindylows. We suspect that the motivation was the noise they were making banging on the windows at all hours and the appearance of very angry merpeople. Whatever it took, the staff is grateful. Now if whoever offended the portrait of Snydely Bigglesbottom by telling him he would look "hot in a speedo but not as good as that portrait of the knight in his bubblebath hanging in the prefects bathroom" would apologize we might be able to enjoy some passive-aggressive-sigh-free time in the common room again. Thank You.
 
ANNOUNCEMENT: Let it be known that just because Gryffindor has recently welcomed a very cute baby into their common room, Slytherin House is not approving the 43 recent requests from googly-eyed girls wearing rose colored glasses and gushing about the joys of "idle-widdle cutie patootie baaaaaaaabieeeeeess sss." Boys, it is safe to come out of your dormitories, the staff assures you that there will be no diaper changing in the common room.
Congratulations to Maman of Gryffindor!

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~Slytherin House Points~
Total to Date 460* Points!
*Reminder: Class/Challenge 15 pts , OWL 100 pts, NEWT 150 pts , SPEW 10 pts extra*

Ssssssummer Slytherin Completed Classes/Challenges/S.P.E.W. projects:

Course work:

Alchemy - travelgirl, ErinAquahearts, Ant Bee
Apparition - travelgirl,  ErinAquahearts,
Arithmancy -  ErinAquahearts,
Astronomy -travelgirl,
Care of Magical Creatures -
Charms -  ErinAquahearts,
Defense Against the Dark Arts - ErinAquahearts,
Divination -
Flying - travelgirl, ErinAquahearts,
Herbology - ErinAquahearts,
History of Magic -
Muggle Studies -
Potions -  ErinAquahearts,
Study of Ancient Runes -  ErinAquahearts, Ant Bee,
Transfiguration - Ant Bee
S.P.E.W.: Ant Bee,

Challenges:

Beans-
    MARMALADE: travelgirl, ErinAquahearts, TechnicolorAquahear ts, AnnoyingLittleBroth er,
    ONION:  Naantje,travelgirl,
Detention-
    JUNE:  ErinAquahearts,
    JULY:   ErinAquahearts,
    AUGUST:
House Unity- Ant Bee, TechnicolorAquahear ts,
House Pride-  ErinAquahearts,  TechnicolorAquahear ts,
Quidditch
   June:travelgirl, TechnicolorAquahear ts,  ErinAquahearts,
   July
   August



Just for fun:
Draco's B'day: travelgirl,
Duddley's B'day (June 23rd)
Dobby's B'day (June 28th)

Slytherin Students Spending Summer in School:

Ant Bee, Head of House/S.P.E.W. Pres.
AnnoyingLittleBroth er
ErinAquahearts
KaceyBear
Naantje
TechnicolorAquahear ts
Travelgirl- Slytherin's Spring Semester's Craftiest Witch!



*This is an unofficial count. For official numbers please see Headmistress tallies on page 1.

::Hand cramping from adding projects to her to-do list feverishly::

You guys are killing me with your awesome. Seriously.

Here's my first contribution:

Challenge/Battle/Alert: May Battle: Pirates
Team: Team-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named
Project Geekdom (if any): Whedonverse (Firefly)
Bonus Points: include which bonus points you think you've earned: Nerdy
Project Name: Brown Coat afghan square
Project Page Link (if available): http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/firefly-brown-coat-dishcloth
Brief Description: Being considered outlaws the intrepid crew of this Firefly class ship could be described as Pirates by some law abiding folk.
Project Picture:

Hi all, here's some last minute bits from me:

Challenge: Accio Books
House: Slytherin
Quantity: 31
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These are from my nephews collection. They were kind enough to look through their shelves for books they have outgrown (but didn't abuse) and have allowed me to submit them to the HPC under Slytherin- but when I send them to the HPC drive I have to dedicate them as Ravenclaw.

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Challenge: Horcrux Hunt: Tom Riddle
House: Slytherin
Project: simple Mod Podge journal for brother
Description: Well, it's a diary. Tom Riddle had a diary and it was a horcrux. I sure hope my brother uses his in a much more benign manner. *shudder*
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sonofagun. The pic isn't in the camera, and his room is a disaster zone so I can't just sneak in and snap another shot.  I'll try to grab one tomorrow when it's daylight and he's around and hopefully in a helpful mood. grr.
Until then just know that it is a simple paper back notebook sealed with an image of an old school Nintendo console that has "Classically trained" written on it.  I made it for him to write his song lyrics down in one place.

What's this? Could I actually have something to turn in? Dobby's socks! who would've thunk it?!

Class: Herbology + SPEW (garden blanket), also HUNTER: Diadem + SPEW (Blue Blanket)
House: Slytherin
Description: I fell in love with the Red Heart Soft yarn in "Garden" the colors are reminiscent of the great gardens of the Wizarding world and the fanged geranium specifically. Anathea Atwater, the Witch of Garden Design and Cultivation at the Minister of Magic Government residence and grounds was consulted on the color scheme and patterning of the variegation. And what a job she has done! Her 45 years of experience in the field of Horticultural cultivation is evident in the way the yarn works up in this granny square blanket I made for donation to St. Mungo's infant ward. Also shown here is a second blanket in blue Homespun yarn by Lion Brand in a soft representation of Ravenclaw's colors and Ghostly Spectre.
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And now a few thoughts on some (not all- Ain't nobody got time for that! There's too much great stuff) of the Marvolo-ssss projects that have posted recently- such an interesting mix of mediums and designs. I love this board!

Jennie: The necklace for your friend is fab! so thoughtful and unique that I can easily see it becoming a cherished family heirloom for generations to come. Seriously. Like the charm bracelets that were visual diaries of women past this is a representation of a woman at a certain point in her life and should she ever have children (or mentor/student relationship like a mother/child one) then It would be a beautiful thing to bequeath to someone. Beautifully made!

Travelgirl- what a great idea your travel at supply kit is- definitely a gift she'll adore.

Abbee: Those "Baby Burritos" wraps are so cute! I too love that new baby smell. The Deadmau5 and pants are fun projects, too- what a creative kid you have!

Teag- The award or storycrafting goes to you this week! Dancing Dumbledores they were fun to read! The bird tree is beautiful. The creative reuse of the eggs is commendable as well, and I lurve those wee footprints- nicely done!

My, Eiseldora you have been busy! I think my favorite is the apron. Great package for the OAHPT!

Patty-o I like your bead choices for the patronus bracelet- pretty!  I still have yet to discover my patronus animal. It's not easy!

Everyone's recipes look so fun to try! We're going to need an HPC cookbook by the time we're finished!

OK, I've gotta run- thanks for the fun reads/views this morning!

(PS- JennieIngram: The bean challenge scheduling question: Anytime that works for you is A.OK with me! I put out the SPEW REVIEW on sundays, but I can't commit to a time so it just gets up there when I can. Sometimes in the a.m. sometimes just before midnight or anytime in between.  This is a board for fun- not stress- so do what works for you! *End of sermon*)

Happy Crafting, everyone!

Great work, Noodle-Bug!
THe paper cutting is amazing, Pottermouth- he looks great!
Maman, the dress is cute!

And I have something to pass in as well- relief!

Class/challenge: March detention with Sprout. (Ahem, Professor Sprout.)
House: Slytherin
Project: Tiny wee hats for favors
Description: My friend is having a "geeky" wedding reception and the favors are all wee tributes to the couple's fandoms.  I was in charge of knitting the tiny Jayne Cobb hats from Firefly. I've had them on the "to-so" list since January, but they were pushed back for birthday gifts and charity knitting.  The wedding isn't until the fall, but  wanted them done with a long lead time to give her peace of mind. I made 12, and there may be more to come if the squeals at seeing the mock-up are any indication. Little is cute and people love cute!

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Now to work on April's assignment! Happy crafting!