You may or may not be aware that I have joined a Harry Potter House Cup KAL on Ravelry.
Each month (or in one case, each week) there is a homework assignment posted for any members who care to participate.
The September Charms assignment was to choose either Lumos or Wingardium Leviosa to knit something for.
For Wingardium Leviosa, we need to make something that shows something that flies, or, for extra points, is something that flies itself, like a kite. The sweater I did for an earlier HP KAL would have been perfect. One year, for Christmas, Harry gets a blue sweater from Mrs. Weasley with a snitch on the front of it. Of course, since I did this for a previous KAL, it's not eligible.
For Lumos, you need to make something that shows something that lights up, or, better yet, something that actually lights up.
For Wingardium Leviosa, we need to make something that shows something that flies, or, for extra points, is something that flies itself, like a kite. The sweater I did for an earlier HP KAL would have been perfect. One year, for Christmas, Harry gets a blue sweater from Mrs. Weasley with a snitch on the front of it. Of course, since I did this for a previous KAL, it's not eligible.
For Lumos, you need to make something that shows something that lights up, or, better yet, something that actually lights up.
I made this Christmas stocking with beads (some of them star shaped) and white yarn that are glow-in-the-dark, so that when the lights go out, the stocking lights up by itself.
You can see other finished projects here.
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Yesterday, I planned to do a lot of things, but then reality intruded with it's own plans, and very little of the the things I planned actually got done.
I'm finding that the current second great depression is causing a lot of the same effects as the first one There was a discussion I heard on the radio about it because of a book that had been written on the the great depression.
The author said that it tended to separate people by their reaction to it. Some people became very nasty and treated others badly because those others could no longer afford to pay their debts. Some of these people went so far as to abandon their children.
In other cases, whole communities banded together to help each other survive in the best way possible.
Yesterday, annoyed that my bank had imposed fees that they previously had told me they wouldn't do, I went to close an account with them. I was amazed to find that they refunded some of the fees, changed my account to one without fees, and added in several nice things I hadn't even thought to ask for! So, now, according to the new set-up, I not only have a little money to spend at the Fall Fiber Fest, that money shouldn't be spent on anything but fiberarts, and I really need to spend it to avoid bank fees! This is the first time in my life that somebody else wanted me to spend money at a fiberarts sale!
So, now I'm really excited about the Fall Fiber Fest on Saturday! There has been some rain last week, and it looks like it might rain now, so I'm not sure about the footing we'll find this weekend. I'm taking my Wellies. But the weather sounds like it would not be better if we were given an air conditioning controller to set it up! The high for the day will be about 70, so we may want a little something to keep warm at some point, but it will not be too hot, even in the sun that is expected!
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So, here is the schedule coming up for a while:
4 Sep 08 Fall Fiber Festival
18 Sep 08 Maryland Renaissance Festival
6-9 Nov 08 Stitches East
And then, of course, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year and Twelfth Night.
Wow! What a lot of wonderful stuff to do!
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John and I are getting down to the end on the front cover of the New Steve Canyon DVD. We are pretty much agreed on the cover except for the colors for the title. We worked on it for a while yesterday.
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Tonight, Pushing Daisies is back on ABC for it's season premier!
In non-SF TV news tonight, it will be followed by Private Practice, and Bones will be on at the same time.
Knight Rider will also be on (NBC) at the same time, which creates a conflict for me. I found the premier sufficiently intriguing to want to watch some more, but it will not be on again later in the week on the SciFi Channel, so I'll have to make some hard choices in order to see it.
Tomorrow evening, get set for another new episode of Supernatural, which has developed into the best spooky show on TV for a long time.
And on Friday, the premier of Sanctuary will be lighting up the SciFi Channel.
Have a great rest-of-the-week!
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