Props moving around the set from room to room

[loril54]

Besides the famous Afgans lets keep track or where they go.

There is the lamp with the squares on it that goes from the dinner to the study of Collinwood. 

[Nelson Collins]

Has anyone actually tracked just where that crocheted afghan has turned up? So far I have seen it in the Evan's cottage, on Joe's bed, on Elizabeth's bed ( Joe, you scamp!), and I think in Vicki's room in 1795  (which is possibly not as anachonistic as it sounds.  Crochet's origins are a bit vague but first became popular in Europe in the 1800s. It may have been invented and done before that prior to it's popularity.  Even so, there certainly would not have been the wide variety of colors used to make that afghan in 1795, any more than there were zippers!)

[Alondra]

I crochet and that afghan is in the granny square pattern. There are actually two afghans, one with a black background and that one with the hideous olive green and what looks like burgandy. I think that's the one most people are talking about when they talk about that afghan.

One prop that I am seeing everywhere is a green lamp with a glass cover. It's seen in the black and white eps, and I know it's green because it's seen in color later on and in fact throughout the whole course of the show, even in the past storylines in which I guess you're to assume there is a candle underneath. It's interesting to watch a scene and recognize several props.

There is the sofa/loveseat in Professor Stokes' cottage which later on we see in 1897 in the cottage when Laura moves in. I saw it also in the scene at Wyndcliff with Chris and Amy. There are probably many such props that just get moved around.

Alondra

[MagnusTrask]

There is the Petofi box, as well as the box I keep mistaking for the Petofi box.  I think the former has a round lid, and the latter a square or flat lid.   The Petofi box showed up prematurely in 1795 and then in Eve's bedroom, I think.    I remember it in the hall outside Victoria's and/or Josette's (in the New House) and/or ECS's bedroom(s), which all seemed to be the same place.

[Jackie]

Has anyone actually tracked just where that crocheted afghan has turned up? So far I have seen it in the Evan's cottage, on Joe's bed, on Elizabeth's bed ( Joe, you scamp!), and I think in Vicki's room in 1795  (which is possibly not as anachonistic as it sounds.

I'm watching the 1897 storyline and I just saw it in Tim Shaw's room, on his bed.

There is the Petofi box, as well as the box I keep mistaking for the Petofi box.  I think the former has a round lid, and the latter a square or flat lid.   The Petofi box showed up prematurely in 1795 and then in Eve's bedroom, I think.    I remember it in the hall outside Victoria's and/or Josette's (in the New House) and/or ECS's bedroom(s), which all seemed to be the same place.

That box is seen in the second floor hallway of Collinwood during present time, in 1897 of course, and I believe in PT somewhere.

[MagnusTrask]

Now I'm picturing PT Petofi, who has too many hands, three maybe.

[Sandor]

Where is that afghan today??!! I must know! I must!!

And the crazy thing is, there must be a die-hard DS fan out there, who's a whiz at crochet, who has replicated said afghan and plans to bring it to the next DS fest.

[Nelson Collins]

Where is that afghan today??!! I must know! I must!!

And the crazy thing is, there must be a die-hard DS fan out there, who's a whiz at crochet, who has replicated said afghan and plans to bring it to the next DS fest.

It would have to be moved to a different room every day though! 

[Jackie]

Has the afghan been auctioned like other DS items?

[Gerard]

At the one DS Fest I attended, during a question-and-answer session with cast members up on the stage, an audience member did an absolutely hysterical tongue-in-cheek "question" about props moving about.  She did a short schtick about the piano in the drawing room in particular which had everyone, including the cast members, in stitches.  When she was finished, everyone applauded at her witty, hilarious routine.  She should've been on Leno.

Gerard

[CastleBee]

An actual account of moving props would be a hysterical little book for fans.  I wish I'd caught the bit on that by that audience member that Gerard mentioned!

I also can't help but wonder what happened to some of the props in the long run...stuff like the big candlestick holders by the front door, the tea set, various paintings on the walls (other than the most famous portraits), the kid junk all over David's room, the grandfather clock, etc.  I wouldn't even mind having one of those big ominous looking chairs you use to see sitting up against the drawing room walls.  I have no idea where I'd put it but, I'm sure I'd figure something out.

[Alondra]

And the crazy thing is, there must be a die-hard DS fan out there, who's a whiz at crochet, who has replicated said afghan and plans to bring it to the next DS fest.

I could easily crochet that afghan but I wouldn't choose those colors, no way. But I have crocheted many afghans like it in different colors.

Alondra

[loril54]

Hey you could make them and sell them.  That way you could afford to go to the fest. 

[MsCriseyde]

Hey you could make them and sell them.  That way you could afford to go to the fest. 

That would be positively hilarious if someone in the dealer's room sold afghans.  Considering how cold the hotel sometimes is, you could probably sell a fair number. 

[Alondra]

Hey you could make them and sell them.  That way you could afford to go to the fest. 

Hmm, not a bad idea. My husband and I are looking into selling things on ebay and I wonder what something like that would bring. I'll have to check that out.

Alondra