Showing posts with label chatter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chatter. Show all posts

Sunday, August 26, 2018

Last Week in the Common Room -- Who are you calling chatty?


There are so many different ways of knitting socks to try!

How do you prep your fabric for cross-stitching?

Where was llim when all the NEWTs were pouring in?

You can make lasagne in a crock pot!

Ravenclaws are full of recipe advice.

A Ravenclaw has done academic research on disappearing ink on old quilts.  Of course.

Which is your most/least liked Harry Potter book?

Some dorms can he very chatty, but they all are very welcoming.

Does chattiness correlate with pointsiness? More that one ravenclaw has researched that one.  Of course!

There are a variety of strategies for dealing with very busy threads.

Pizza crusts of alternative ingredients can be tasty (as long as the kids don’t know!)

Ravenclaws certainly love their spreadsheets!

Different fairs have different ways of displaying/disposing of baked goods entries.

It’s easy (and rather common!) to mistake yarn or thread bits for household pests.

Earburns are love!  You have been warned!

Tower pen pals could be A Thing!

We shared useful tips on dressing while traveling to foreign lands.

Flip-flops = thongs = … jandals?

Anybody got a spare £ 200,000 for some islands in Scotland?

MB personality types in the Tower may not be representative of the general public.

Many of us are experiencing cast-onitis.

We are welcoming a new batch of NQFYs!

The details of sorting are a bit of a mystery, but we must just trust the Hat!

It’s fair season!  Ravenclaws and allies are representing!

We’re showing off our yarn acquisitions. Is your stash a source of stress or a relief from it?

Tower residents are always there for each other.

Sunday, August 19, 2018

Last Week in the Common Room -- Break Month Ravenclaws are Chatty!


Sorting has opened!  Some students from all Houses are going on tour. Who will end up in Ravenclaw Fall term?

We're getting our ducks in a row!

So many Tower denizens are cross-stitchers, too!

Some of us are not only SABLE, but SABER beyond 2 or 3 expected reincarnations!

There is a nascent spinning event for the Vuelta a España, La Vuelta a Lana.

Water woes seems to be everywhere this month, both inside and outside of our houses.

Donating blood is good, but make sure to take care of yourself afterwards.

Ravenclaws and friends enjoy RPGs!

Smartphones are useful for all kinds of things, not just games.

What keeps you occupied in the waiting room?

Gripes about young people haven’t changed; just the devices.

Which generation do you identify with?

Learning to tame the crazypants is a difficult but essential skill.

Break month chattiness and silliness has settled in!

Invasive critters have a lot of different (and misleading) names.

Do you have stash acquisition rules?

Prjónfesta is in full swing.

Lego castles have arrived!


Sunday, August 12, 2018

Last Week in the Common Room: Dumpster Fires

Weaving history
Badgers/raccoons
Stone paper
Car wash/specific programs for what kind of wash you want
Errors in patterns
Harry Potter themed LEGOs
Kids growing up too fast
Baby color schemes
African flower animals
Sweeping classes
Master knitter program
Craftsy sale
Moving to other countries/pet quarantine/cost of living
Variegated yarn with patterned lace work?
Magnifying lamps for cross stitch
“what can I make with this” search function
DCI/Marching Band competitions
Cross stitch grids/sulky
Fire/dumpster fire idioms
Pointsy 'Claws
Lack of rain and consequences
Stackable stools/baggy seat covers
Special bags
Magic the Gathering

Sunday, August 5, 2018

Last Week in the Common Room: Notebooks


Improving in new crafts
Notebooks/BuJo/notebook suppliers
Favorite baby/toddler sweater patterns
Most kids like having things made for them
Tips on purging stash
Harry Potter theme launch party for a special beer
Crochet halter tops
Spear-o-mint lifesavers are discontinued/discontinued items causing sadness
Cakes
Wint-o-green lifesavers spark
Not wearing handmade sweaters for various reasons
Least favorite parts of knitting
Best term ever/what part of the year is your best term usually?
Getting all our ducks in a row for next term
Animals at work
SADD might occur at different times for people in the same country?
Prjónfesta
Obsessively tracking packages/errors in delivering packages
Missing interchangeable cables/tips/keys/stand in "keys"
Shawl love
Car woes

Sunday, July 29, 2018

Last Week in the Common Room: All about cats

Bird feeder robbers/raccoons
Cat introductions
Project tips/lifelines
Getting to the end of the day without meltdowns/productivity
Dyers/MKALS/MCALs/KALs/CALs
Strategies for points
Swimming adventures
Rain/flooding
Planning OWLs/aspiring OWL mistresses
Disabling ravelry suggesting emoticons
Paypal
Coming home to a clean house
Cat revenge vs cats that are happy to see their owners when they return
Completing all the OWLs vs NEWTing ASAP
How many NEWTs makes an NEWT mistress?
Tiny houses/schoolies/dealing with stash
Mochimochiland
Staycations
Craft everything from library term
Attempts to recreate food from a book
Sleeping outside/with the windows
Leaving windows/doors open for pets
Picot bindoffs
Sweater addiction
Beta fish/aquariums
Spreadsheets for cross stitch
WoW/breaks/playtime
subscription services (yarn, makeup/toiletries, food, toys)

Sunday, July 22, 2018

Last Week in the Common Room: Electronics

Cats/Cat allergies/hypoallergenic cats
Adoption stories
Not so smart pets
Dream/bucket list pets
Dream crafting job
Cheapest isn't always better/living on a low or fixed budget
Internet connectivity issues
Michigan/Dallas
Forgetting to turn on cooking devices
Organizing stash
Measuring stash by miles between places/marathons of yarn
Mischievous 'Claws hiding non dragons from the new HoH
Partners/friends who disagree on favorite things
Stargazing/Astronomy
Squash (drink)/cordial/different meanings in Europe and the US
House cup tours to all 4 houses
Stress relievers
Lack of USBs/CD players/external drives
Lack of headphone jacks/bluetooth headphones
Too many chargers/not enough chargers of the correct type
New appliances
Hot weather/dust/smoke
Exercise for people with injuries (cleaning, swimming)
One doesn't want to do something but when you do it you don't want to stop
Scrapbooking/other uses for scrapbook pages
Job searching
Excel/spreadsheets
BROOM woes/there's more than one way to measure yarn
Pain that happens hours after the injury
Medical insurance

Sunday, July 15, 2018

Last Week in the Common Room: Introversion/Extroversion Spectrum

Dyeing
Differences in spinning wheels
The comedy wildlife photo competition and amusing captions
Flamingos
How long does it take to feel like a grown up?
Ravenclaws are overachievers but they're organized about it
Ravelry changes
Tits Out Collective charity
Myers-Briggs Intuitive Preference
Introversion/extroversion spectrum
Oversimplifying disorders as extreme cases (like OCD is extreme neatness)
The military and injuries/return to civilian life
Judgemental families
Visitation Weekend
Seattle Claw Meetup (Claw Fest 2019)
Yarn chicken solution
Poutine
Pokémon
Tips on buying health aids
Tips for sweater edging
Cold sheeping
Gift ideas

Sunday, July 8, 2018

Last Week in the Common Room: Mini Parade


Time turners
People who can't/don't craft as much in the spring
Crafting race
Air conditioning wars
Changing your pronouns on facebook
Typos/Autocorrect/places you can/cannot correct your posts
Common law marriages have time expiration? 
Pickle of Fear/Vive la patisserievolution
Watermelon/salted fruit/sugared fruit
What size population makes a town big or small?
Days before holidays in the middle of the week have a Friday feel
Birthdays near holidays get lost
Calamondin (Calamansi) fruit
Participating in the Fair and wondering about the judging
Feeling bad (or not) about people who have to scan many items
Retail horror stories/customers who come in at the last minute
Credit card woes/Car woes
Mini parade
A cross stitch floss purchase of epic proportions
The Mallet of Sanity has its work cut out for it
Online scheduling
Taking pictures of food/cooking by taste or recipe
Buttons/button holes
Disney food/cognitive dissonance over dumplings that taste like cheeseburgers
Fireworks/new firework laws/people who buy fireworks elsewhere
Knitworthy family members/dealing with difficult family
The hardest part of making software is naming things?
Composers's names as curses
Spoons/spoon theory for those without disability or chronic condition
People who get worn out from using their intellectual and social sides
Humidity/dry heat
Refurbishing old houses
MacGuyver knitting story
Software that names files by date in a odd format/Julian date

Sunday, July 1, 2018

Last Week in the Common Room: Gay Pride

Reply all emails
Birthdays/kids growing up
jump castle/bouncy castle
menopause
Steam summer sale
Getting into tight places with hoop skirts/crinoline or bustle
Wardrobe accents
Eloping/common law marriage/weddings after the fact
wedding planners
wedding vs marriage
changing needle sizes to finish a project
2x2 rib
flats vs heels
Rules about people helping someone finish a project
Rules about JAYG/granny squares/10 stitch blankets
Minis
Old HPKCHC rules for squares/hexipuffs
Washi tape
Different pronouns for ravelry users
Technology causing pain or discomfort
Different parents's rules about kids gaming
Changes in gaming controls
Hysterectomy/oopherectomy/hysterosalpingooophorectomy
Last minute classe
Body dismorphia 

Sunday, June 24, 2018

Last Week in the Common Room: Crazy Pants Overachievers!


Why is there a word for pink but not light blue?
Killing plants, even lower maintenance ones
Fast knitters
Traveling for work and enjoying uninterrupted sleep and mealtimes
Presenting speeches
Misspellings on tests
Air Conditioning
Not being able to leave mistakes in your work and lace surgery
Over achieving crafters
Moreporks exist in real life and not just in Pratchett books
Activities at the library
Donating books to the library
Comfortable room temperatures 
utility bills/solar panels/crypto-currency
Cross stitching floss/storing floss
"X things by X birthday" challenge changed to include a bucket list and social things.
Baby gift ideas
Gothic Tradition class
Losing knitting mojo

Sunday, June 17, 2018

Last Week in the Common Room: Funny Road Signs

Women in video games, RPGs, cons
Breaking negative thought patterns/PMS triggers
New computers
World Wide Knit in Public Day
Correcting knitting without ripping out the stitches or doing surgery
Making cakes and icecream/making party favors
Stitch Maynia or setting personal crafting goals
Flying gnomes
Rivalries
Doing what you want on your birthday
Troubleshooting sewing machines/recommendations on sewing machines/sewing thread
Common things for one person might be rare things for another
Choosing constellations/people who were left out
Changes in horoscopes
Grammar in songs and on signs/Funny signs
Correcting pets
Not so smart pets
New Zealand vacations
Book themed road names
Drive on beaches/beach vacations
Santa
Sunglasses
Containerized housing units

Teacher gifts

Sunday, June 10, 2018

Last Week in the Common Room: Avalanche of Happy Things

Stash sorting leads to startitis
Things that get in the way of knitting
Driving games/driving with knitters is boring?
Patterns with many mistakes that are hard to follow/a different way of charting
Cough drops
Earphones
"Someplace safe"/organizing things with spreadsheets
National Cheese Day
National parks/passes
Pea milk
Sinus headache remedies
Exercise goals
Eating cold food 
"Cuddle puddle"/"magnetic ducklings"
Beer and puppies but some people don't want the beer
Forgetting children's names
Thinking children are twins when they're not
Cats don't always like to be hugged
Impulse buying animals
TdS/TdF
Going on vacation without supplies
Introduction to instruments with children
Appliances that sing when they are finished with their jobs
Car trips with children
Nancy Drew vs Hardy Boys
Listening to audiobooks/audiobook length/long books
Class rank or schools that didn't use class rank
Training service puppies and using prisoners to train service dogs
Doing other things like reading or knitting while exercising
Berries
Knit worthy and not knit worthy people
humidity and arthritis 
Sock Madness finalists
Tips for blood sugar testing
Size of bugs/blood/medical problems can be exaggerated with panic

Sunday, June 3, 2018

Last Week in the Common Room: Tea!

Sewing in space
Road trip feature on ravelry
Embroidery pens
OWL complications ... there are many
Motorsports/Family traditions/remembering loved ones
Short haircuts and bad haircuts
Detention, FotF and the beginning of various challenges over the years
Competitive Ravenclaws like badges
Horses, herd behavior, making a mess or fertilizing?
Drought/fire danger in one place and flooding in another
Coffee makers in hotels
Running in a marathon vs helping out with a marathon
Helping out with a marathon (running) vs helping out with a marathon (video game charity drive)
Characters dressing up as other characters for Halloween
Memorial Day in the US
A good vacuum and filters are keys to success when you have allergies/asthma
Live streams
Electric tea kettles/US kettles less efficient?
Tea vs coffee in the US
Old dishes/hand me downs
Spelling bee
Most difficult language to spell in
Many ways to make teas
Tea and lemonade mixes/tang
Breaking dishes and other strange phobias
Ticks/insect repellent/natural remedies
Geocaching
Different eating speeds
Peppermint
Beginning patterns
Roommates
Scars

Sunday, May 27, 2018

Last Week in the Common Room: Prachett

Last minute scores
Pollen substitutes
Hanging garden sofa
Cleaning kitchen sinks/bathtub drains
70's styles
Crime fraiche
Airport precheck/global entry
Guessing someone's nationality
Sweaters/top-down raglan
Inheriting crafting supplies
Coffee/caffeine/people who are or are not affected by caffeine/peppermint
Feeling bad about not cleaning for people
Various body issues
Various veggies substitutes for pasta and veggie tots
Differences in the way tater tots are made
Cross stitch floss prices
Elaborate cross stitch patterns
Different mascots for ravenclaw and some people like ravens more
Making sense of the HP house names
Linen vs aida cloth for cross stitch
Falling in the gaps of sizing while sewing
Felted spinning fiber
Fear of animals
Different kinds of crafted Christmas stockings for the whole family
Cool bugs
Study group reorganization
Crafted dishcloths
Cheap, sturdy, machine washable yarn
Rhubarb
Reproductive organ issues/supportive doctors
Transporting animals to other countries
Using multicolored yarn with a contrasting solid color yarn
Find That Pattern game
The wearability of shawls vs socks
Terry Prachett books
Loving some colors and some colors not loving you back
Needle keepers/grime guards

Sunday, May 20, 2018

Last Week in the Common Room: Kitten Sized Sorting Hats


Mother's Day
Baths as bribes
Royal Wedding/fascinators
Tense muscles vs pulled muscles
Mathematical equations on macs
Harry Potter fabric
Camp Loopy
Combining honey with ... everything?
Rogue birds in houses, their splats and diseases they may carry
A question about blanket squares
Anything goes with weddings as long as you marry your perfect mate
York in the UK or US/about Pennsylvania/Jimmy Stewart/Amish
Staying up late playing video games
Being named after someone
Tall box piles even after living in one place for years
Swatch gauges
Price of different bobbins
Yarn crawls/LYS tours/Places without a lot of LYSs
Shipping woes
Games as new interface training
Math counts/Quiz bowls
Favorite fiber to spin
Schedule dodging
Shoes for walking/toms/bobs
Kitten sorting/Kitten sized clothing/sorting hats
Keeping dogs out of kitty litter
Clotted cream and substitutes

Sunday, May 13, 2018

Last Week in the Common Room: Water, water, everywhere

Pickle cakes
Stress knitting
Nurse's Day
Esquire/master/German form of miss
Yarn barf/center pull yarn
JAYG
Plays and all the costuming
Color point cats
Open door visiting policy
Documentary recommendations
Gender bending (on purpose or not)
Argyle pooling
Sharing clothes
Things are different in Wales
Tortoise CASPN
Foreign drivers driving in the US/police overstepping their bounds
Super powers
Naked gardening and the perils of naked gardening
Going through many shades of color before finding the correct one
Floofy cats
Gluten free/reduced gluten diet
Cutting long hair short
Wanting to learn another language
Water saving/water sharing/water sources
Hailstones
Cold/hot/water allergies/definitions of cold
Best and worst parts of embroidery
Annual report questions

Sunday, May 6, 2018

Last Week in the Common Room: All About the Names

Finishers and people who get to 90% and don't feel like finishing
The saga of forgotten coffee
Planned pooling
Teaching kids how to touch yarn gently
Changes in a few house cup rules
The constant promise to keep up with the Common Room
Needle sizes you need always hide from you
Talking too much about the House Cup to Muggles/icebreaker topic
Knitting machines/sock knitting machines/mistakes on machines
Eco friendly lifestyle
Past prefect challenges/april fool's joke HPKCHC style
Friends represented as chickens
Charms OWL the hard one?
Crafting smarter not harder
If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing
Disney running challenges
Knowing people online more than people you see every day
Outrunning the Mallet and getting overconfident
Talking about yourself in 3rd person
Deadline accountability/HPKCHC journals/overwhelmed by lists
Definitions of a drought
Hedges are good places for birds
Getting veggies from CSA/gardening
A term for a Big Eagle whose Little Eagle gets a Little Eagle
Baking a pirate ship
Poison ivy recognition

People who celebrate on half birthdays/Choosing your birthday
Taking husband's names or choosing not to/genealogies
Lack of Dr. & Mr.
Common and uncommon first names
Mispronouncing and misspelling names
Amazon Echo/Alexa and other similar devices
No dragons in the Tower!
Finding out you're related to a friend/significant other
Newer hospital's amenities
Picking up curbside groceries or having groceries delivered
5 guys
Allergies
Kitties get their markings late
Over dyeing
Romanization of Chinese characters/different order of names
FPV/fostering animals
What is your favorite Southern-style biscuit recipe?
Kosher salt

Sunday, April 29, 2018

Last Week in the Common Room: Fernweh

People with ZERO WIPs 
Weighted blankets and plans to make ones/other similar treatments
Accountability for unpacking from trips
Altitude sickness/learning to go at your own pace
Startitis
Keeping old magazines/archives online 

Old advertisements and ones that wouldn't work these days
How different people in a relationship plan
Geology nerds
Altering books to create new things

Gargoyles and liquids coming from other places than their mouths
Different meanings of the word grotesque
Fernweh
Not being able to get gauge and adapting to it
Desk boxes are different from house boxes
Beautiful towns
No descriptive words for feeling snacky
Statistics
Taking the lead in deciding things
Different words people use to refer to kids
Icecream
Origins of mission size compared to OWLs/updated mission rules
Phone call length
Kitties helping their humans to brush their teeth

Sunday, April 22, 2018

Last Week in the Common Room: Ravelry has groups for everything


Ravelry has groups for everything
Sorting on the fly
Constructing bee hives for a non rav class
Being related to famous people
Not getting a lot of rest normally and while traveling/vitamin D
Turn in tips for JAYG squares that require live stitches
Long term WIPs

Vacation walking/hotel issues/mixed bag of experiences
Mechanisms of dealing with stress (including Tennyson)
Loud speakers or music played outside rooms
Overdosing on chocolate or cheese
SoS tips/OWLing or not OWLing
Using the term muggles outside of Harry Potter contexts

Cleaning up other people's messes
Wisdom teeth/teeth problems
Poldark amigurumi
Flowers/spring weathe

Different elevations of different towns

Sunday, April 15, 2018

Last Week in the Common Room: Bees!



Some people are avoiding the sorting hat while others stalk him.
Back up OWLs
Telling kids to be more careful so they listen/kids' fearlessness
Reading raw genetic data
Yarn crawls/LYS
Nest liners including cat fur?/PSA about not leaving nest liners
Being sick during the holidays
Using doll clothes or smaller objects to build up skills
Deterring cats/Citrus plants
Shiny, well-illustrated pattern books make the pattern easier right?
Sock blanks
Making yo’s big or small
Felted fungi and rotten things that look like it
Kitties and kidneys/tricks to medicating pets
ChiaoGoo mini interchangeable set
Rebellious characters revolting against their authors
Dogs that can walk on their back legs
Dogs opening trash cans that are supposed to be dog proof
Librarians!
Easy, packable recipes!/crock pot meals
Male teachers discouraged from working with young children?
Containers have to match!
Experimental potato chip flavors and experimental tictac flavors
Self check out machines, job security and kids ease of learning
People don't respect public property (maybe more Americans?)
Sarcasm symbol
Bees!
The meaning of consent explained with tea