Writer's Block: Who will you be?

[tabular_rasa]

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I am Hermione for Halloween this year (again). I think I am part of a group. Shack challenged Flick to dress as Harry Potter, promising that if she did, he would go as Parvati Patil. We then got the idea to all go as characters from Harry Potter to party in Kokura. However, since Marc and I had our school culture festivals today, the Kokura bit got cancelled-- but I think at least a few of us are still going as our originally-assigned Harry Potter characters.

At any rate, it's an easy costume for me, especially since I didn't bring any of my costume stuff with me to Japan. I knitted myself a scarf (I used thick needles and yarn; it took about a week) and bought the sweatervest (and added the paper Gryffindor badge with a pin), but the skirt, shirt, knee socks, and shoes were already mine; I wear them (though . . . not always together) for work and stuff all the time. The hair, too, is my own: the one costume bushy hair comes in handy for :-P If only I had my cloak and had thought to order a Gryffindor tie in time for it to arrive for Halloween, this would be perfect:






I don't look exactly like Emma Watson, but Emma Watson doesn't look exactly like Hermione. So there :-P

Comments

[silverfyre.livejournal.com]

you know that scarf could come in handy once it is cold!

[tabular-rasa.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I think I will do a lot of knitting during the winters here!

[silverfyre.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a plan! Maybe you could make one for all the Houses!

[scorpiuspro.livejournal.com]

God you're so cute
Whether it's in costume, work clothes, or pajamas, you're the most adorable girl in the world!!!

(sorry to all who are nauseated by this comment, I can't help it)

[tarmetiel.livejournal.com]

*throws up*

Thanks Robert! That was my dinner. Way to go.

[tarmetiel.livejournal.com]

On a different note, you do look adorable! I think I may hem that skirt up just an inch, because it is a mite too long for you...it still looks good, but it may look better just a bit shorter. I hope your HPness went fab! ^_^

[orgasmicpsyduck.livejournal.com]

Just how hard/time-consuming is scarf knitting, anyway? A friend of mine made me one in college that I still wear here and there (the pattern resemblance to Shadow the Hedgehog is purely coincidental exactly how I requested it), but she never let me in on the intricacies of the process.

[tabular-rasa.livejournal.com]

Scarves are the easiest thing to knit, because you can just use one type of stitch. (My secret: I can't knit anything else. Yet, at least). Socks and hats and sweaters get into purling and using three needles and all sorts of craziness . . . Yeah. You can get crazy with patterns on scarves, but you don't have to.

The best (read: warm and cozy) scarves are knitted with thick yarn and thick needles, and this makes the process go quickly. Like I said, it took me a week of maybe knitting an hour or two a day.

First, though, you have to learn how to knit and get into a grove about it. That makes things go slowly: making mistakes and having to fix them /-:

[gemma-thompson.livejournal.com]

That is an epic scarf, if i do say so myself. What did you use for a wand? a chopstick? lol

[tabular-rasa.livejournal.com]

Yup :-P

[just-you-wait.livejournal.com]

Swish and Flick!

I won a contest with my Ash Ketchum outfit. Aarthi's Prince/Katamari costume was pretty good too.

[silverfyre.livejournal.com]

Haha thanks! :D

[sidheblessed.livejournal.com]

Love the costume!