School of Magical Stitches Catch-up Post

As I mentioned in my last post, there was a bit of an upheaval in the School of Magical Stitches and Literature. The admins/mods had a disagreement on the tasks and how things were handled and one of the mods left the group. The group still exists and the other mod started a Lord of the Rings stitching group, so I joined that too since that has been my first fantasy love and something I've followed since I was age 10 or so with the old animated Hobbit cartoon.

In case you've never seen it, here's a clip of Smaug. Terrifying!

The upshot of everything is that I'm still stitching a lot, possibly even more, although I do try and combine tasks for both groups if possible. It's manageable and enjoyable still, so I will keep on. I don't really know all the details of the issues people were having, but I assume it was the same as what usually happens, someone complained about something, someone's feelings were hurt, etc. If everyone could enjoy their favourite hobby instead of being so worried about points, which lets be honest, don't actually matter in the slightest, then maybe it will go more smoothly. As far as I'm aware, no one was actively discriminated against or bullied in the group, that would make me leave for sure.

So, on to catching up with all the past homework assignments!

Year 3, Week 10

This covered the few short days at the end of April. We were supposed to make WIP albums, with no more than 20 projects, so I tried to pick things I'd actually work on, not everything that's still a WIP. Then we had to choose our smallest stitch count project and stitch as much as possible. If we managed to finish and fully finish it as a FFO, then we'd get bonus points.

My smallest seemed to be the Joy Ornament and it moved along to here:

The start of May, coinciding with the start of Maynia for a lot of stitchers, started out with the Quiddith World Cup. This is a big section in the 4th book (Goblet of Fire) and I thought this idea was kind of brilliant. Each house was pitted against the other in a 3 day long task and this was to last for the first 2 weeks of May. My house, Ravenclaw, started off against Slytherin from May 1-3. The next match was against Hufflepuff from May 4-6. The issues in the group started during the World Cup events, so the last 2 matches were cancelled.

I worked on Joy Snowglobe some more and got a little farther:

and Princess and the Dragon:

moved along to here: 

Princess and the Dragon by Charting Creations

stitched 1 over 1 on 28 ct Amarinthine by Chromatic Alchemy

If you notice the little label, the mods started a random number thing because of the issues they were having, so that's why there's an extra paper on this one. 

They did the same thing for the next match:

 Team Jodyri design from the Team Jodyri vs. Team KLT group

stitched 2 over 2 on 28 ct Jodyri fabric, possibly Mrs Milkybar kid? with Purple Planets and Disco Lights as well as CC Soot (I think)

I was happy to get that one finished and I still had some time to stitch, so pulled out Princess and the Dragon again:

 moving it to here:

And this is where everything kind of broke down in the School of Magical Stitches. The remaining mod created a new task:

Year 4, Week 1

And we were to comment on our thoughts on the changes, what's been going on, etc. as well as stitch 100 stitches. I pulled out Princess and the Dragon again and worked on the middle section:

And there was no prompt for this, but the middle section was so close to a finish that I continued on and finished it up:

You may be able to tell this was in my car. I've taken to bringing my stitching to work so I can have a mental health break at lunch :)

Year 4, Week 2

In the Goblet of Fire book there is an inter-school competition that brings other wizarding schools into our worldview. There will be a tournament, called the Tri-Wizard tournament for the 3 schools champions. You must be 17 years old to enter, so this week we had to pick our 17th WIP on our list, or other options if you didn't have 20, although that was easy for me, since I have 20 at least! And we were to stitch 700 stitches on that WIP. 

It turned out to be Butterfly Quote which was here:

and after 700 and a bit stitches:

Butterfly Quote by Jodyri Designs

stitched 2 over 2 on unknown 14 ct fabric with Jodyri Pink Laydee and Sparkling Citrine as well as WDW Purple Iris?

And that brings us up-to-date with this week's homework, and I'll make a separate post for that as this is long enough! 

Hope you made it through and Happy Stitching!

Tiffstitch