#wittyrambles

What do I need to do to attract love?

How is my current relationship going?

Why do we feel stuck?

Career

What changes do I need to make to succeed?

Where am I right now?

How to move forward?

What do I want?

Self

What do I need to hear right now?

How to get unstuck?

Shit: *Happens*

Today the sky will be morose and dreary. You can expect a high of Shit-I-Wish-I-Brought-My-Sweater, with lows of Merlin’s-Fucking-Balls-Is-That-Snow?!

They give up. They become the monster they were always told they were. The Good Guys decry “I told you so! Ha ha! I knew it!”, without realizing with their every word and action, they were speaking into existence a self-fulfilling prophecy.

In case you haven't heard of them, hexipuffs are small hexagons knit on two needles. Technically there’s no reason this idea has to be done in this particular shape, they’re just what sparked the idea in my mind.

What we’re actually making are sachets. The sachets are made with scraps of yarn, and capable of being filled with anything you can think of:

Sigils

Charms

Herbs

Salt

Tea

Wishes

Prayers

You’ll probably want to also fill them with stuffing, but if you want them to remain flat it’s not necessary.

The reason I’ve been toying with making them as hexipuffs, instead of just knitting a cloth and sewing it up is...I suck at sewing. Honestly, it’s bad. The beauty of these is they’re knit tight enough that nothing leaks, and you never need to touch a sewing needle.

They take about 20 min to an hour to make, and are great for when you want to work your intentions into something but have no attention span. (**cough, cough** me.)

But by far my favorite thing about the idea of knitting sachets is the pure endless possibility. 

Using the color and type of yarn as correspondence.

Fitting the size and shape to your particular need. If you wanted to get particularly fancy you could even use multiple types of stitching to make a pattern on it. Or even put a sigil on it.

If you want to buy the pattern to knit hexipuffs, click here.

If you want a free pattern to crochet hexipuffs, click here.

If you want a free pattern to knit a similarly shaped hexigon, click here.

Notice I said instinct, instead of personality. Personalities are constantly changing. If you grouped kids by personality, you’d have to re-hat them every semester. The school might as well be sorted by cliques. How do you even keep that from devolving into an entire house of kids that smoke weed and blow things up by the lake? Instincts, however? It’s subconscious. It affects your actions, influences your choices, but ultimately can be overridden (see: Harry Potter being a cunning little shit, but making decisions that aren’t). 

The House Founders didn’t trust each other as far as they could hex ‘em. Notice how Hogwarts is, somehow, built perfectly to protect itself in case something like the Battle of Hogwarts happened? Secret rooms, the Chamber of Secrets, the constantly changing floor plan? Houses all having their own safe places to hide. It’s all built to be nearly impossible to attack unless you’re a current student. Or a teacher. Except, of course, how odd it is that you’re not supposed to tell anyone where your Common Room is.

You can preach inter-house unity ‘til the cows come home, doesn’t change that everyone is systematically taught to hate each other. The school thrives off stereotypes and mistrust. Gryffindors are brainless beasts chasing their next adrenaline high. Slytherins are evil, as likely to stab you in the back as shake your hand. Probably both. Ravenclaws are quiet, judgmental, and think they’re better than everyone else. Hufflepuffs are basically useless; They have no ambition, and still do everything the hard way. (Side Note: Why are you villainized for having ambition and going after what you want?) Hell, Hermione literally learns that Gryffindor is the best house from Hogwarts a History. When even the literature is biased, how can you expect the children not to pick up on them?