Bobbin runs a successful baby witch and wizard wear shop just off the Hogsmeade high street. Hogsmeade-based wizarding families have been purchasing her creations for years, and now thanks to Etsy, they are available for witches and wizards around the world - as well as muggles! - for the first time ever. Bobbin has this to say about her shop. Taken from a recent interview with the Daily Prophet
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Oh dear, there is nothing quite as enchanting as a little witch taking her first step. Or when those baby wizards start babbling at their toads and owls. I've always loved the little ones, oozing charm and magic and, well yes, occasionally a fair bit of drool. But if they don't just look like the most precious prancing toadstools then I'm a hippogryph!"
"I guess I first found my love of clothes-crafting in my transfiguration O.W.L. There is a fair amount of wand-work that goes into sewing, you must know! It's not all geminio charms and "Bespockety Smockety", though I'll admit to having used that last spell a few times to get that well-tailored fit; it's just so much more effective than an engorement charm, which can leave the collars looking a bit stretched. A good seamswitch has proper control over her severing charms, can transfigure a bolt of fabric into pattern pieces with her “Concoudriatus” spell, and knows all the best button vendors in Diagon Alley!"
"Ever since last summer, I've also started to use a fair amount of muggle methods, and the results are - well, I'll let you have a look, as they speak for themselves. Arthur and Molly Weasley came through Hogsmeade to visit their son's joke shop over where the old Zonko's used to be. As Molly had a browse of my latest line of reversible baby onesies (I do believe Bill and Fleur are expecting again!), Arthur told me about the most marvelous contraption he called a "so-so machine". It actually uses thread and needles and has an honest-to-goodness plug! It took me ages to track one down - and the muggle I bought one from insisted on calling it a 'sewing' machine although I can't see how it would be any use in the garden - but now I pass all my creations through one and am just tickled by the way it whirrs. I've built up quite the collection of thread spools, as well." "What's next for Made in Hogsmeade? I won't reveal all the new season surprises, but I can say those reversible onesies in their new wrap-around variation are more popular than a pepperup p**f in a drafty dungeon. Being able to easily unwrap a baby and open up all the layers has proven to be especially useful as the turgio cleaning charm doesn't work properly through the diaper lining, leaving unsightly stains on their robes over time. The blustery weather up here also means that my hooded jackets are popular year-round. So use a super-sensory charm to track their coming and going, or you'll miss the latest styles. The Birds of a Feather line has been flying off the racks . It's like a frock - er, flock - of owls, bringing in the orders every morning."
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Made in Hogsmeade is a fan art Etsy shop, designing and hand sewing clothes for the magical children of Hogsmeade - and children who wish they lived in Hogsmeade! We have no affiliation with J.K. Rowling, Warner Brothers, Universal Studios, Death Eaters or the Ministry of Magic.
