6 Ideas for the Perfect Oscars Bash

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Are you ready for the Academy Awards on Sunday night? It’s not too late to plan the perfect Oscars party.

Looking for more Oscar party ideas? Check out these

Decorate your table with custom Oscar confetti featuring all your favorite stars. Get the details at Sugar and Charm.

Make glam centerpieces using mirror tires, clear beads or marbles, fresh flowers and a movie director’s clap board sign. Photo courtesy of Party Wishes.

Set an effortlessly glam table with tasseled confetti balloons. Get the details at PopSugar.

Enjoy a delicious cocktail from our friends at Santa Margherita.

Star Studded Raspberry Lemonade (pictured)

Combine 1/8 cup sugar and 1/8 cup lemon juice in a small saucepan, bring to a boil.
Reduce heat and simmer for 1 minute, stirring until sugar dissolves.
Remove from heat.
Stir in lemon rind and ½ cup of muddled raspberries.
Combine mixture and 1 bottle Santa Margherita Prosecco Superiore in large pitcher.
Sprinkle remaining raspberries among the glasses.

Show Stopping Limoncello

Pour 1 oz. of Limoncello into a champagne flute.
Top the glass with Santa Margherita Prosecco Superiore and stir gently.
Garnish with lemon zest.

Star Studded Prosecco

Fill two bowls, one with lemon juice and another with sugar,
Dip champagne flute rim in lemon juice.
Repeat this process with gold sugar, coating the rim of the glass evenly.
Let stand to dry before filling flute with Santa Margherita Prosecco Superiore.

Keep track of your glass by writing assigning a different award category to each person instead of using traditional wine charms. This idea is courtesy of InStyle.

The Governor’s Ball is the official Academy Awards after party. You might not be able to go to the real thing, but you can feel like a star anyway serving the same food. Architectural Digest has the recipes for this year’s event, courtesy of chef Wolfgang Puck.

The butterfly on this piece — the Owl Butterfly Playmat by Sophie’s Stitches — caught my eye before I even knew what the project was. Now that I’ve give it a closer look I’m still not 100 percent sure what it is meant to be for, but I still love it.

I think it’s maybe to give you a flat surface to roll dice or play cards on, but there are no images of the project in use so I’m just speculating on that. If you know what it is, be sure to let me know!

What it physically is is a worsted weight mat (the sample is worked in cotton) that measures 14 by 24 inches, or 35.5 by 61 cm. The impression I get from the pattern notes and the photos is that you knit the rectangle plain and the butterfly is stitched on after using duplicate stitch, which is provided as a chart.

Of course you could choose to knit some of the colorwork as you go, either using stranded knitting or intarsia techniques, or maybe some of both. It just looks like a lot of duplicate stitch (and it is!) so knowing me if I were making this project I’d probably try to knit some of it instead of stitching it all.

The pattern also suggests that you can knit a second plain mat to sew on the back and cover up all the yarn ends, as well as making the mat thicker and a little more stable. There’s also a photo that shows fabric sewn to the back, which is also a good option if you have some fabric that has a bit of grip.

I like the graphic on this one enough I might just make it as a table pad for our entry way table. You can always make the mat part a different dimension, just make sure you’re centering the image if you do.

You can find this pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Sophie’s Stitches]

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