Taking Eccentricity To New Levels

Title: Moving On
Prompt: 46 - Care
Character/Pairing: George, Surprise
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Word count: 325
Summary: The war is over and George has someone to thank.
A/N: Part 3 of 3. Part 1, Part 2. Written for lostbutlooking on IJ.

( Moving On )


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is there any possible reason I can't dye a 100% wool hat with RIT dye? the wool is undyed, if that makes a difference.

Feel free to interpret. I think his friend had the answer.

 

I want to make myself a blanket it will be done with block repeated nine times with different colours. Those colours will be formed like this:

Red Black Green
Yellow Grey Purple
Blue White Orange


So far I have two patterns. One was a star and moon pattern created by using knit an purl stitches.
I've done the first square and I don't like it at all.
The next has a diamond in the middle in seed stitch. Around it is what looks like ribbing (four rows stocking stitch, four rows reverse) with a cable on either side.
I used this pattern for my mother's friend's baby and though I like it, I'm not sure if I want to do it for myself or find something new.


Does anyone here have any blanket patterns that are created with a repeated square?

I've been writing furiously these last few days, and I'm finally to the last "past" chapter -- the chapter where Hermione leaves. It's slow-going and difficult. It's hard. Harder than I thought it would be.

Chapter seventeen (not the last "past" chapter) should be ready before y'all leave for Portus.

To all of the Portus bound: wishing you safe travels, joyous times, and lots of energy! We non-attenders will anxiously await reports. :-) *group glomp*

*smooches*

Title: And Xavier Makes Three
Team: Order of the Phoenix
Characters: Severus/Hermione, MOC
Challenge: Expecting Challenge, Snape Has It All Challenge
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: They’re not mine, they’re J.K. Rowling’s. Alas.
Notes: For machshefa on her birthday! This is a teeny-tiny sequel to What to Expect When Your Husband's Expecting, set right after the birth of baby boy Snape. You don't have to read that before you read this, but it will probably make more sense if you do. Also, I wrote this so that it would also conform with snape100's challenge of the week, so if you pay attention, you will notice that there's at least one word starting with a different letter of the alphabet, for all 26 letters.


"Xavier?" Hermione made a face. "You can't just name our son that!"

Severus glared, holding his newborn son close to his chest with a decidedly proprietary zeal. "I can and bloody well will," he sniffed, righteously indignant. "When you endure nine months of pregnancy, Polyjuiced labour and the ordeal of squeezing a person through your vagina, then you may claim naming rights. Until then, it's my turn; I've earned it. Xavier agrees," he added, dropping a quick kiss on Xavier's forehead. "She'd name you Hugo," he confided.

Xavier shrieked disapprovingly.

"Fine, you two," Hermione pouted. "But the next one's mine."

Title: More Severe Woes
Team Name: The Order
Word Count: 100 each
Rating: pg13
Challenge:Lupin saw it all,Our dear Mrs. Snape,Spousal duty,Second character point of view
Mind your own Business,Caught,Seedy Secondary Character,Hermione’s Bad Day,It is not what it looks likeBathroom gossip,Pearls of Veriaserum, Native slang,How can I be condemned ….No D challenge.
Snape gets a medal,Ten years ago, Apologies,It was a mistake.Elf made wine,Hermione forbids Severus to do magic,Sleeping on the couch,PotionsProve it,Compromise, expecting
Characters: Minerva, Poppy, Remus, Winky, and of course Severus and Hermione
Authors Notes: sequel to Hermione’s Severe Woes.After I wrote Severe Woes, one of the reviews wondered how Severus would take it. The story snowballed from there. again too many challenges to tag them all lol


“Are you certain of this Poppy?” Asked the Transfiguration professor in a disbelieving tone.“Yes Minerva, Lupin saw it all. Severus cursed up a storm at the news, then went deathly quiet when he found out it was his wife that showed him up.” Replied the school nurse. “poor dear.”“ I would not feel too badly for Hermione, Minerva. Our Mrs. Snape is not the kind of witch that would accept this.” Replied the other witch. “ I agree. However She would deserve a medal for putting up with this foolishness for two months”
“I am certain she will make this work Minerva”

Hey everyone, this isn't a direct knitting question, but I was wondering if anybody could help me?

I am a student currently advancing through a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fiber Design and will hopefully be going on to pursue a Master of Fine Arts in Fiber Design as well (possible a PhD in Textile Sciences). I knit, crochet, felt, weave, and sew and I feel that I am very creative and well adept to design for industry, privately or for artistic purposes.

Here is my question: what do I do after school? I am having a mild crisis because I do not know what to do with my degrees once I leave the warm embrace of academia. I want to design knit wear in the long run and possibly own my own little yarn shop. But I need experience in the field and dont even know where to look!

I am currently in Buffalo, NY and I fear that my only job opportunities are going to be in New York City (I have no problem with NYC except that I have no money to live there and I am kind of afraid of working there.)

Does anyone have any clues as to where I can start looking? Who I can ask? What I can do to be better equipped for the field?

If you have any questions for me to help narrow down some options please feel free to ask.

Thank you so much for anyone that can help. (this little textile/fiber nerd needs all the help she can get)

Tegan

Title: More Severe Woes
Team Name: The Order
Word Count: 100 each
Rating: pg13
Challenge: Part 1
Lupin saw it all
Our dear Mrs. Snape
Spousal duty
Second character point of view

Part Two:
Mind your own Business

Part Three: Caught
Seedy Secondary Character
Hermione’s Bad Day
It is not what it looks like
Bathroom gossip
Pearls of Veriaserum.

Part 4: Native slang
How can I be condemned ….

Part 5:No D challenge.
Snape gets a medal.
Ten years ago

Part 6: Apologies
It was a mistake.
Elf made wine

Part 7: Hermione forbids Severus to do magic
Sleeping on the couch
Potions
Prove it
Compromises

Characters: Minerva, Poppy, Remus, Winky, and of course Severus and Hermione
Authors Notes: sequel to Hermione’s Severe Woes.After I wrote Severe Woes, one of the reviews wondered how Severus would take it. The story snowballed from there. again too many challenges to tag them all lol


“Are you certain of this Poppy?” Asked the Transfiguration professor in a disbelieving tone.“Yes Minerva, Lupin saw it all. Severus cursed up a storm at the news, then went deathly quiet when he found out it was his wife that showed him up.” Replied the school nurse. “poor dear.”“ I would not feel too badly for Hermione, Minerva. Our Mrs. Snape is not the kind of witch that would accept this.” Replied the other witch. “ I agree. However She would deserve a medal for putting up with this foolishness for two months”
“I am certain she will make this work Minerva”

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http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/07/then-tomorrow-was-another-day.html

Yesterday I did a panel with Richard Price, and then I signed for (according to the newspapers)about six hundred people for five and a half hours. Normally I try very hard to be as nice to the people who've been waiting for hours as I was to the people at the beginning, but I think I may have been ordering the people at the back of the line around a bit just to make sure I finished before the Tom Stoppard talk started at seven. (I finished with 25 minutes to spare.)

The crowd was lovely, and all amazingly good-humoured given how long they were standing around.

Anyway. Five and half hours, which is about five hours and ten minutes longer than anyone else here, which meant that I was being peered at suspiciously, as if revealed as some kind of odd alien being, by other writers with whom only that morning I was sharing jokes and food. I think they have now forgiven me.

After the Stoppard panel, which was marvellous, like a master class, (I'm typing this on the computer in the hotel lobby, and was just tapped on the shoulder by a Newspaper photographer who wanted me to come and pose for some shots, and seemed a bit baffled when I pointed out that I was working) I went to dinner with one of my Brazilian publishers. I hadn't really eaten since breakfast over twelve hours earlier, and discovered that when you are given a very large passionfruit caipirinha after a five and a half hour signing and on an empty stomach, you know it's working because your feet go numb. Possibly they simply went away. Luckily, my feet returned before I had to walk back to the hotel, but it was extremely odd.

Today it's the end of FLIP and the Desert Island Books panel, and I will read a bit from James Thurber's The Thirteen Clocks.

Okay, due to many factors, I have not yet seen the last two Who episodes. I plan watching them both by tomorrow. One of the reasons is that I get excited and didn't want to have to wait between the last two eps so I can watch them back to back. A vast majority of folks will use the cuts, but some are posting icons in the DW comms without putting them under cuts. Fine, I could see if it had been a week or so, but it hasn't even been a day. GAH!!!!

And then I just saw a post titled DW Read at your own risk! Come on. How hard is it to use the cut? It's not hard at all. At least there wasn't a spoiler in the title, but still... It's making it so that I can't hardly look at my LJ yet. I'm pretty sure it's no my flist doing this, but on the comms. But I didn't want the post on screen long enough to tell who it was or where it was.

Especially with this having been a holiday weekend in the US it is likely that quite a few folks have not yet had the opportunity to see it because they had family obligations.

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Title: I F***ing Do! Part 26
Team Name: Spying for the Order
Word Count: 100 x 16
Rating: M
Challenge: Creative Cursing
Characters: Hermione, Severus and... good gods, everyone.

I'm not worried about not managing to meet up with SS/HG folks. Between the side trip to Desert Designs, the Dark Revel after the Welcoming Feast (should I be worried about trying to sneak in as a Muggle?), the Saturday morning meetup at the Mariott, and the Portus contacts spreadsheet, we actually look kinda organized.

But how'm I going to find some of you other folks? You Snupineers and Snarry-ers and others? If you're going to Portus, want to meet up, and weren't planning to be at any of the things I mentioned above, please comment so we can figure out how to not miss each other.

Also, I need to organize my (so far reasonably short) list of things I'm supposed to be trying to find for folks while I'm there. My former lab partner's 7yo daughter has a massive crush on DanRad Harry, so I'll be looking for something she'd like. Probably a picture or something. My friend M is a massive Cowboys fan, so I'll be attempting to find something that wouldn't just be found in your average sports memorabilia shop for him if at all possible. Patsfan wanted me to go to the Hard Rock and find him a Stevie Ray Vaughan pin. Which would make sense, that a Hard Rock in Texas might actually have one, considering we've not been able to find one anywhere else. Except the nearest Hard Rock is Houston, so he's s*&t out of luck. (If any of you folks do the pin collecting/trading thing, let me know, and I'll run down to the Foxwoods Hard Rock and get some to bring.) I think that's it. Except I'm sure that I'm missing something. *wibbles*

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jjS-qtx8X81YHf4vp7rtm-MOmAMw

This is to prove what a big geeky girl I am. Like girls can't be interested in the solar system, according to some nitwits.

I am old enough to remember when Voyager I and II were sent off. I also have heard what is on the golden records the article refers to. You can hear some of it in the start of John Carpenter's Starman. The sounds of earth include greetings in several different languages, a speech from the president of the U.N., the sounds of nature, and music. Classical, like Beethoven and Vivaldi. Tribal chants, Indian war songs, exotic sounds from the orient. The Rolling Stones are on that disc singing I Can't Get No Satisfaction. So is Chuck Berry, but I can't remember what it is that he sings.

If an alien race does pick it up I suppose we will find out if they are a fan of Vivaldi or Berry.