Please note that the Dueling Club deadline is today! I know I reminding you late. If it slipped your mind and you would like to sign up on the 11th, please contact Agatha Vablatsky via the rav thread. She may still have a spot for you.

Also, Wednesday is the last day to qualify points for having the HSKS 7 logo in the sidebar of your blog.

Please be looking for our first House point update on Monday, February 16.

COME ONE DOWN AND COLLECT YOUR PRIZE!!

You are the winner for Hufflepuff Week One posting.


Watch for the Owl to come this week.

Cheers Elanor

The winner of the Ravenclaw Week 1 Posting Prize is..........

This week's Gryffindor homework is to list words of 4 letters or more made from the letters contained in "Muggle Studies". You are limited to the number of times the letters appear, i.e. you can use "g" twice in a word, but "m" can only be used once in a word.

Students will be marked according to how many words they list, their longest word, and definitions of words - particularly if useful in understanding the Muggle world.

Homework is due for submission before the witching hour (midnight) on Saturday. The top student will be awarded a house prize.

Congratulations, Minerva!
I am having lots of fun so far in the swap! I am ready for the games!
Hexy

We have a winner in the Gryffindor first House Assignment ... we had many worthy entries, and thanks to all students for getting their homework done!

Our winner is .... Minerva Lovegood !

Congratulations! Your assignment was quite creative - an Owl is headed your way with your prize.

And the winner of the 1st Slytherin House Quiz is . . . (drumroll please) . . .
ESMERELDA BEANSWALLOW! Congratulations Esme!!!!! Your prize will be sent by Royal Coach over the weekend!

All names were placed into a bowl and Prince Corey, assisted by Sir Jinx, drew the winning name before departing to visit his loyal subjects this morning!



Thanks, everyone, for 100% participation in our first House Quiz. Let that set the standard for Slytherin House this term---100% Excellence!

Good Evening Hogwarts Students! I’m Agatha Vablatsky and I will be acting as the dueling club coordinator for this term.

For new students, here is an explanation of how the dueling club will work:

Essentially, all participants will be organized into brackets where everyone will be paired up with one person. The pattern will be released, and the first person to receive a hat or a pair of gloves/mittens in the mail from their opponent will be dead. The person who is left standing will advance to the next round and will be paired with the winner from another pairing within the bracket. In the end, there will be one person standing from each bracket and they will be dubbed the dueling winner.

Patterns will start out easy and progressively get harder as the rounds progress. I will post the materials required 2 - 3 days before the duel officially begins. This will give you time to contact your dueling partner to get their shipping and sizing information. I will post a yarn weight, amount of yarn required and needle size along with any other notions or tools that the pattern requires. The dueling club is meant to be a stash busting event so you don't have to go out and buy specific yarns. The duel will officially begin 2 - 3 days later (at a specified time) with the posting of a pattern on the HSKS7 blog.

This term, there will be a bracket for hat knitters and a bracket for fingerless gloves/mittens knitters. You do not have to be a fast knitter to participate, but you should be able to finish a hat within 5 days and a pair of gloves / mittens in 1 1/2 to 2 weeks at minimum. In the HSKS6 dueling club, many of the hat knitters finished their hats within 1 – 2 days after the pattern was released. This is our first time for a gloves/mittens bracket but as a comparison, the fastest sock knitters from HSKS6 completed a pair of socks in about 2 days although many took between 3 – 5 days to complete a pair of socks.

Keep in mind that sometimes it comes down to a race of the owls, with the post office being the deciding factor. Completing a project a day or two before your dueling partner doesn't mean anything if your post office decides to mail your package out a day late.

As far as shipping requirements, overnight mail is NOT allowed. It must go Priority. We recommend mailing your projects with delivery confirmation because if projects are received on the same day, the delivery confirmation will let us know when it was delivered. This will help us to alleviate any possible disputes as to who killed whom first.

We will be including crocheters again this time around if we have enough interest! In the beginning rounds of the competition, you will have the option to knit or crochet within your bracket. I’ll pair knitters with knitters and crocheters with crocheters within the hat or gloves/mittens bracket. However, please note that the final round(s) will be knitting ONLY, so you must be able to knit to participate.

More than anything, this is just a fun project. Don't NOT join just because you think you are a slow knitter.

Interested? If you would like to join, e-mail me at hsksduelclub at gmail dot com with the following information:

Potter Name
Bracket: Hat or Gloves/Mittens
Craft: Crochet or Knit

Signups will continue through midnight CST on Tuesday, February 10th and the materials for round one will be posted on Wednesday, February 11th (time TBA). Round one will officially begin on Friday, February 13th (time TBA).

If you have further questions about the dueling club, please comment to this post and I will answer them in the comments so that others may get their questions answered too.

Agatha

Greetings everyone,

I am so excited to be in this swap. This is the first time I have participated in the HSKS swap; I have only been in the Hogwarts Sock Swap.

I have been in touch with my spoiler and spoilee this week.


Everyone have a great weekend,

Mafalda (Hufflepuff)

Would you like to help your House win the House Cup?? Look to the list below, students!

5 pts - Post Wish list in sidebar of your blog - Deadline Feb. 7
5 pts - Post HSKS Logo in the sidebar your blog - Deadline Feb. 11
10 pts. - Handmade Item Completed - Deadline April 3rd
10 pts. Purchased Items Deadline - April 10
50 pts. - Early Owl Period - March 27 to April 17
10 pts. - Blog Posting per Week
20 pts. - Quidditch Trivia
5 pts. - Quidditch Picture Scavenger Hunt
50 pts. - 100% Participation on Quidditch Trivia (bonus)
150 pts. - Finding the Snitch

Please feel to highlight some of your favorite Etsy shops or novelty sellers here on the blog. I'm sure there are many sellers out there that we are unaware of. Two of my favorite Etsy sellers are highlighted below: