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This is your weekly reminder that The Project of Doom, A Harry Potter Block of the Week Mystery Quilt, is taking place over on Harry Potter Paper Piecing (hp_paperpiecing on Livejournal).
Today’s pattern is Week 28!
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Previous Patterns:
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I have a new custom-stamped thumb ring that I bought for myself to commemorate my years as part of the Harry Potter fandom. This quote kind of sums it all up for me.
Made by foxwise.
EDIT: Thanks to the generosity of Rose, owner of foxwise, you can now get 15% off your purchase using the coupon code SEWHOOKED. How awesome is that?!
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This is your weekly reminder that The Project of Doom, A Harry Potter Block of the Week Mystery Quilt, is taking place over on Harry Potter Paper Piecing (hp_paperpiecing on Livejournal).
Today’s pattern is Week 27! That leaves only THREE more patterns until final instructions!
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Previous Patterns:
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My Kitchen Window, a pattern from the Sewhooked Shop
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This is it, the shirt I’m wearing to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, part 2 tonight with my family. I have had a fantastic time sharing my Harry Potter tee collection with you all and I can’t wait to see the movie this evening. I will be there, with all Houses represented, as Hogwarts comes together to save the wizarding world.
This tee doesn’t have a story yet. I purchased it recently from Threadless after being on the waiting list for a reprint for ages. It’s soft and perfect and I love it. I hope it’s ready to catch the tears that are sure to fall as we proceed into the final battle.
For those of you that made it to the midnight movie…I hope you had an amazing ride. For Harry Potter fans everywhere…I’m with you, whatever happens.
TTMT #118 – Twenty-One Shirt Salute
Hogwarts Crest Tee, purchased late 2000 or early 2001
Talk to Me Tuesday watchers will be familiar with this wall. That’s me and my bad self standing on a table. That’s also the infamous ticking clock that can be heard in many of my videos. The time? Just a little bit earlier today. The lanyards are from Lumos and Phoenix Rising, and you can see a wee bit of a cross-stitch from the fabulous Shae.
This Hogwarts tee is the first Harry Potter item other than a book that I ever purchased. My family and I were fans from the fall of 2000 on. I’d recently heard that the first book was going to be made into a movie. It never occurred to me that there would be Harry merchandise. Yeah, duh, I know, but I just wasn’t thinking in that direction. Then, one day, we walked into a store (I think it was a now-defunct WB shop) and there was one Hogwarts tee left on the rack. Just the one. It’s actually a child’s XL tee, but I did not care. There weren’t any adult sizes, or any other sizes to be had. This was it…and it was mine.
I wore this shirt to opening night of the first four movies, along with my hand-crafted HP earrings, towing my kids along in the costumes of their choice. Wearing this tee, I watched Harry discover that he is, indeed, a wizard, saw he and Ron crash into a very angry tree, saw Harry and Hermione rescue Sirius, and watched Cedric Diggory die. I broke this shirt out once again for Deathly Hallows part 1, and once again, inundated it with my tears. You know when and you know why.
Could I have known in 2000 what this fandom or this journey would mean in my life and the life of my family? No…I could have never dreamed of such a thing.
Because I was not able to get tickets to the midnight release at my favorite theater, my family and I will be going to see DH2 tomorrow instead. In some ways, I hate to miss going to the midnight show when so many of the people I know will be snuggling down with with tissues across the country. The anticipation, the caffeine, the solidarity are all reasons to go to the midnight show and reminds me very much of a conference-like atmosphere. Everyone is there for the same reason and we all know it.
Even so, I’m also okay with waiting just a little longer. I’ll be with my family for the final movie, and that’s just as it should be.
~Jo Rowling, July 2011
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This is your weekly reminder that The Project of Doom, A Harry Potter Block of the Week Mystery Quilt, is taking place over on Harry Potter Paper Piecing (hp_paperpiecing on Livejournal).
Today’s pattern is Week 26!
NEW – Join the Project of Doom on Livejournal to talk PoD, share photos, questions and stories!
Previous Patterns:
Links go straight to posts including block samples. If you do not wish to see photos of the blocks, click this link for previous posts.
My Kitchen Window, a pattern from the Sewhooked Shop
Leaky Cauldron tee, purchased 2006
Today is a super special day for me. Not only am I counting down to Deathly Hallows on Friday, but today just happens to be my 17th wedding anniversary! Seventeen amazing years with my soul mate, Eli. For almost two decades, he has loved me, supported me, and most of all, put up with me and all my craziness. Quite obviously, he’s a keeper!
Eli & Jen, 1994, hiking in Big Bend, Texas
Eli & Jen, 2008, White Sands, New Mexico
So…The Leaky Cauldron (representing the website, not the pub!)….
This is one of two t-shirts I purchased to wear at Lumos in 2006. My order did not make it to my house before the conference, so the t-shirts never made it to Vegas.
I’ve had a love/hate relationship with this shirt for years. I love the design. I love the color. When I got it, late (grrr!), it was too big for me, huge, in fact.
I immediately reconstructed it to size it down. I don’t usually mess with the length of the tee when I she-shirt them, but this one was so long, that I did. Unfortunately, I messed up and ended up with a shirt that was shorter than I wanted .
So, I tried again. This time, I added insets in the sides and extended the length with some white fabric from another tee. That worked for a while…and then I lost weight, and it was once again too big. SO, I resized it a third (and final!) time, making the side insets a bit smaller and, finally, have the shirt you see here.
This tee has also been retired to my some-day-when-I-can-bear-to-cut-them-up-quilt pile.
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Honeydukes tee, painted, stenciled and reconstructed, 2006
This lovely (hot!!) summer Sunday, I continue my personal countdown to the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2 by wearing a different HP tee leading up to the movie release. I counted this morning, I found 19…and I think there are more floating around somewhere. And those are just the shirts that I can claim as my own…
Once upon a time, I went to Las Vegas. The year was 2006. Harry Potter canon was a year away from being closed. It was my first con. I was a fairly new moderator over at Harry Potter Crafts on Yahoo!. I did not yet volunteer for the Leaky Cauldron (2006-2007). My Harry Potter quilt was started, but not complete. There was no Harry Potter paper piecing and I had very few fandom friends.
Lumos was the con that changed all that. I met tons of new friends, both crafty and those that worked for The Leaky Cauldron. I realized fully how many crafters, costumes and creative people were part of our fandom. My fandom.
In the build up to Lumos, I created t-shirts for every day of the conference. I wore this one to the opening feast. Honeydukes has always been one of my favorite places in my mind. Magical candy, what more could you want in a shop? This tee was reconstructed using directions from Generation T, a combination of “Outer Lace” (tee 16) and “Ties to Die For” (tee 18). The stars (left shoulder) were stenciled. I wanted the Honeydukes name to look like a sign, so it was created by taping off a rectangle, stenciling that in and then free-hand writing on top of that with fabric paint.
This shirt feels a bit, hmmm, young, for me now, but it brings back memories and reminds me of online friends that I haven’t seen with my own eyes in many years. I brought Honeydukes out of retirement just for today.
And yeah, that’s a white streak in my hair. It’s au naturale.
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