Category Archives: Harry Potter

How to crochet: A Snitch or Fairy

Kay, last Zelda pattern for a bit…. I think….

If you’ve been missing, I’ve been on a bit of a kick as far as Zelda patterns go, to celebrate the new game coming out! Check out the patterns for a Big Deku Mask and Mini Deku Mask posted the past few weeks!!

Now today’s pattern is for a miniature Navi fairy from Zelda or a snitch from Harry Potter!!


Materials
-Lily Sugar ‘n Cream (Blue, Yellow, and White)
-Size US-G/4.00 mm Crochet Hook
-Needle to sew in ends
-Stuffing

 Abbreviations
-Sc : Single Crochet
-Sl.st : Slip Stitch
-Dec/Inc : Decrease/Increase
-Hdc : Half-Double Crochet
-St : Stitch or stitches
Worked in the round

 Pattern:

Big wings
Ch 7
(1:45) Rnd 1: starting in 2nd ch from the hook, sl.st, sc, hdc, hdc, sc, sc (6)
Cut and pull through leaving long enough end to sew onto body.
Small wings
Ch 3
(2:55) Rnd 1: starting in 2nd ch from the hook, sl.st, hdc (2)
Cut and pull through leaving long enough end to sew onto body, just under/behind the big wings.
Body
Ch 2
(4:00) Rnd 1: sc 6 in 2nd ch from the hook (6)
(4:50) Rnd 2: inc (sc 2) in each st (12)
(6:00) Rnd 3: sc in first 3 sts, inc in next, repeat 3 times (15)
(7:00) Rnd 4 – 6: sc in each st around (15)
(7:45) Rnd 7: sc in first 3 sts, dec in next, repeat 3 times (12)
Sew on wings here
(13:30) Rnd 8: dec in each st (6)

Cut, stuff and sew together

Check out another Zelda pattern, like the one for a mini Deku Mask here!

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How to Crochet a Key!

Hey guys! If you didn’t know yet, I’m coming out with a new tutorial video every Monday on my YouTube. And more often than not it’s a video for a brand new pattern! This weeks pattern is a crocheted key.

Here’s the written pattern for these keys:

Materials:
(basically any 100% cotton works)
–Needle to sew in ends with
Abbreviations:
-Sl.st = Slip Stitch
-Sc = Single Crochet
-Dec = decrease
-Ch = Chain
-Rnd = Round

Ch 9 sl.st one in the first ch made.
Rnd 1: sc 18 around the ch loop made, sl.st one in first sc made. (18 scs)
Rnd 2: ch 12, skip first ch and sl.st one in the top loops of each ch made down. sl.st one in sc made in Rnd 1 to anchor in. Turn. (12 sl.sts)
Rnd 3: Skip first sl.st, sl.st one in the top loops of each sl.st made in previous Rnd. Turn. (11 sl.sts)
Rnd 4: ch 4, skip first ch, sc one in next 2 chs, dec one into the top loops of the first sl.st down, sl.st one in the top loop of the next 3 sts, ch 4, skip first ch, sc one in next two chs, dec one into the top loops of the first sl.st down, sl.st one in the top loop of the next 6 sts, sl.st one in sc made in Rnd 1. Cut and sew in ends. (16 [4 scs, 2 decs, 10 sl.sts])

ANFSCD: A Very Harry Halloween

Warning ahead of time… it gets a bit.. um.. collegey in this post.

For this Halloween my friends and I decided to go a bigger then just a simple Halloween party. We decided, why not do a Harry Potter Party, and man was it a success. We had apple cider, butter beer, trivia, movies, expelliarmis shots, and of course… Quidditch Pong.

What’s Quidditch Pong Louis? Good question, Louis. Quidditch Pong is a personal invention that mixes the timely art of beer pong, and the amazing wizard sport Quidditch.

First you have to make the hoops. I made mine with hangers and yellow duct tape. Make sure you make them various sizes!

Then you have to make some butter beer. Here was my recipe:
           7 parts Rootbeer or Cream Soda
           1 part butterscotch schnaaps
           1 part vanilla vodka (for an extra kick!)

You can find some other recipes for butter beer, including non alcoholic, here: http://www.yumsugar.com/Hot-Cold-Butterbeer-Recipe-380247

The rules for Quidditch Pong are much like beer pong with a few changes:

  1. Choose what team goes first with your sorting hat!


  2. If the quaffle (ping pong ball) goes through a hoop and makes it in the cup it counts as two (much like if the ball were to bounce)
     
  3. If the quaffle goes through a hoop the enemy team is allowed to use there bludgers (hands) to knock it out of the way.
  4. When there is one cup left, the snitch must be used. Trust me, this makes things a lot more difficult. I made my snitch by just wrapping a ball in yellow duct tape and attaching a few wings made out of paper, but you could easily use a yellow ping pong ball with glued on wings.
  5. Enjoy!!
We split the party up into houses to make the game more competitive.
We finished the tri-wizard tornament off with some Expeliarmus Shots! You can find the instructions here: http://www.buzzfeed.com/michaelm70/the-official-harry-potter-shot-4cll

The party went awesomely. We’ll definitely be doing this next year!

How to Crochet: Wings

Man, I got some good puns.

So I recently bought myself a new camera to commemorate the blogs popularity (obviously that’s a lie haha), and to commemorate my new camera, I made a new pattern!

When I was making my bat hat, I looked around for a pattern for wings, but couldn’t find anything that really worked, so I made some and thought of some other uses for them, and thus came the owl and snitch!

Without further ado here it is!

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Note: This pattern is for the wings and main body only, the entire pattern for the owl is coming soon, so check back.

Final Product:
click for larger images

Materials:
Lion Brand Cotton/Lily Sugar’n Cream
/Lion Brand Cotton-Ease
(basically any 100% cotton works)
–Crochet Hook-Size G6 4.00mm
–Needle to sew in ends with

Abbreviations:

-SL.ST = Slip Stitch
-SC = Single Crochet
-HDC = Half Double Crochet
-Ch = Chain

Wings:
Ch 4 (leave longish end for sewing)
Rnd 1: skip first ch, sc 1 in each ch (3 total), ch 2, turn
Rnd 2: skip first ch, sc 1 in next ch, sc 3 in next 3 sc (4 total), ch 1, turn
Rnd 3: sc 1 in each (4 total), ch 4, turn
Rnd 4: sc in each (not in ch’s, 4 total), ch 1, turn
Rnd 5: sc in each (4 total), ch 1, turn
Rnd 6: repeat Rnd 3
Rnd 7: repeat Rnd 4
Rnd 8: sc in each (4 total), Dont ch, turn
Rnd 9: skip first sc, sc in each (3 total), ch 1, turn
Rnd 10: sc in each (3 total), Dont ch, turn
Rnd 11: skip first sc, sc in each (2total), ch 1, turn
Rnd 12: sc in each (2 total), Dont ch, turn
Rnd 13: skip first sc, sc in next (1 total), Dont ch, Dont turn
Rnd 14: in spots along bridge (see below), sl 1, sc 5, hdc 3, sc 3
Fasten off leaving long end for sewing. Wings reach approximately 3 inches in length

Spots along bridge:

Mouse over to view spots

Simple body:
Ch 2
Rnd 1: sc 6 in first ch (6 total), Do not join Rnds, Mark end of each Rnd.
Rnd 2: sc 2 in each around (12 total)
Rnd 3: sc 1 in first, 2 in next, repeat 6 times (18 total)
Rnd 4: sc 1 in first 2, 2 in next, repeat 6 times (24 total)
Rnd 5: sc 1 in first 3, 2 in next, repeat 6 times (30 total)
Fasten off and stitch end in

Stitch Wings onto body to make a simple Harry Potter snitch!

You can purchase the owl here, the snitch here, and the bat hat here.