Common Room Recap March 2-4

This Weekend in Ravenclaw

• Tiny things (no not socks, but we have those too)! This started a "smallest things" bout of pictures/info, including our beloved cephalopods!
• Now that's some serious tumbleweed, also haboob is a great word.
• New spinning wheel! It's lovely!
• And it's the weekend for spinners (and mini socks) apparently, this time rromera! Yay!
• Bobbilicious is looking for some IL Claws...anyone?
• DonaQ is having furnace issues, she'll be away a bit.
• WooooooHooooooooo kountingsheep found an apt!!! Congo-rats!
• Hehehehehehe popcorn popping ala movie trailer style.

 

March Forth on March FOURTH!

Dearest friends, today, oh, today! It is the only day of the calendar year that gives a command: March Fourth! Er... Forth!... whichever. :-D

And what better way to March Fourth for Luna than with a March of Socks--MINISOCKS!!!! Really, there is no better way!  MinisMarchforLuna, minis of any kind... but MINISOCKS!!! we have a fondness for them here.

In preparation for this great event, we have been busy busy busy!  GazeboGal thought that maybe not everybody would know how or why to make a minisock, and so she has prepared three fabulous tutorials for your perusal, straight from the Bathtub of Yarny Goodness, people!  And in the middle, there are some gifts from me (Soprano1) and MariaCrafts as well!

Giant Minisock Tutorial A (Minisock Part 1)

The Top Ten Reasons to Make a Minisock (Minisock Part 2) (ooh, nice thumbnail, there, S1)

Giant Minisock Tutorial B (Minisock Part 3)

How to use your Minisocks for March Classes! (Minisock Part 4)

(click on this one to enlarge!)

Giant Minisock Tutorial C

Dear Claws, March Forth on March Fourth and make MINITHINGS!!!!

Common Room Recap February 27 - March 1

This Week in Ravenclaw

• Really neat children's books posters.
• Dawntreader7 is having some work struggles, candles for her!
• An excellent quote re: childrens literature.
• Anything may be "wer'd" apparently.
• And a new genre is born with midwifery by DonaQ ;)
• Welcome to the Tower SleepyBaby! Congrats to the SleepFamily!
• Some interesting things about swaddling particularly in Russia.
• Soon it will be the big day!