Headmistress Challenge

I'm sad to say that this will be the final term for our beloved Headmistress Anisa.  Always one with her own style, she has put together a fun and unconventional Challenge for us.

To embrace her final term, she has challenged us to finish something. It should be a craft by our definition, either a ravelry craft or a non-ravelry craft, and you should finish it between May 10th and July 24th. It doesn’t matter when it was started, as long as you did the final amount of crafting work on it during that period.

That's right, non-ravelry crafts count.  WIPs count.   Non-ravelry WIPs count.  New projects still count.  So many options!

Projects will receive 10 base points plus bonus points for two reasons: her estimation of how much work you did on the project since May 10th and general awesomeness. In order to be considered for the “how much work” bonus points, you will need to write a description of the work that you did since May 10th on the project.  Provide a detailed description of work completed to maximize bonus points.

To be clear, we are not to submit a project that has been  submitted as finished anywhere else in the Cup.  And while bonus points will be awarded in a mysterious way, she recommends you do not skip Detention in lieu of HMC.

What's Happening This Week: May 28 - June 3

May deadlines:

NEWT 50% until 5/31
ongoing OWLs
Quidditch - Match 3 - 5/26 - 6/4
May Classes until 5/31

June deadlines:

Flight of the First until 6/7
Quidditch - Match 3 - 5/26 - 6/4
Detention badge until 6/25
NEWT 75% until 6/30
OWLs 50% until 6/30
June Classes until 6/30

Ongoing:
Prefect's Challenge - June blitz - 6/24
Headmistress Challenge - until July 24
Order of the Phoenix - first missions accepted back 7/1 - 7/22
Great Hall Class and Detention Badges
Great Hall Advanced Studies, Quidditch and HMC badges
Remembrall Sign ups

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