zeh kee!

The July Potions Class Assignment for HPKCHC:
"A small project (no larger than your fist) that is golden, metallic or sparkly
A coin purse, gold socks (rolled up), fingerless gloves with sparkly cuffs, etc."

a snitch was toooooo obvious, so i did a nice flying key!

switching yarns saved my sanity. this is Vanna Glamour Yarn in Topaz and Diamond. i am using a blue version right now for another project. i wish you could really see the sparkle, but alas, it is not very photogenic.

cool (abandoned) blog

a dead blog, but an awesome collection of textile art.
wool and tea

my metallic yarn project

i hate the yarn i picked. hate, hate, hate it. i brought it to the theater for HBP, thinking i would crochet waiting for the midnight showing, but i pulled the project out and the whole damn thing was knotted beyond belief. that was not the first time i had to spend long useless amounts of time trying to control this yarn. so, i tried another today. absolutely horrid. far worse than the first. now i am switching to vanna's glamour yarn which is really just cream shot with gold. it does not look golden enough to work for my project.

the frustrations i have had with this project have made me nearly abandon it. hiss.

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the other project i am working on is a little doll made of that crazy eyelash yarn that was all the rage a few years ago. i had the body sorted after 2 tries, and whipped up little arms and legs, but putting them on made me realize i needed to do things in a different order. alas. i must redo it. more hiss.

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oh, and i FINALLY got a call about my superwash cascade yarn for my snakey scale scarf. WTF? it took 2 months to show up. i still haven't picked it up, however.

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precious metals

first experiments with crocheting gold and silver threads.
it is kind of a pain, actually. the results are scratchy, too.

a quick knit project in the midst of the big cleanup

My parents were here all last week, helping me with a huge house cleanout project. In the midst of the very intense week, i remembered that i still needed to make my dad's Father's Day present. so - in 2 (rather long) nights, I whipped this thing together from a pattern I found on the Internet:

Soap On A Rope!



My dad likes Coast Soap, so I slipped a bar of that into the soapbag.


Here it is just before I tied it in place - I gave it to him the next morning!


He seemed pleased. Soap on a Rope was something I traditionally bought him for Father's Day when i was a kid - so it may just have been nostalgia on his part!

11th hour project!

Using the incantation “Yarnio!” transfigure something that is NOT yarn into a useful knitting/crocheting material, and then knit/crochet it up into something.

this was a fun assignment and people really ran with it, knitting all sorts of things from thread, to wire, to trash bags, to ramen noodles!!!



literally in the last hour of the june class, i crocheted this bowl out of torn cloth and posted the following:

anguinea from Slytherin here with a wee rag bowl crocheted from Yarnio’d sheets that only appear to be those from the Slytherin dormitories, because no one would be so foolish as to destroy school property just to get last minute points for their house.

squiddy's tentacle!

When harvesting their gillweed students should pay close attention to they way bubbles of oxygen cling to its roots. This month we will be working on some new techniques for harnessing these bubbles.

Knitters and crocheters should show off some bobbles or nupps, and spinners try your hand at a slub yarn.



i posted this over at the HPKCHC in Herbology with this post:

Good evening. Professor. anguinea from Slytherin here, hoping my classwork submission will be acceptable.

After spending a full day slogging in the shallows of the lake, I found plenty of leeches (mostly on my ankles), but could not locate any gillyweed whatsoever. However, with the assistance of “a friend” who was able to move out a bit deeper into the water, I was able to locate and study the plant properly.