Category: Halloween

 
No kitties in my lap tonight, so for once, you get to see how this shawl turns in a spiral. It’s coming along slowly, partly because I have a ton of other Halloween stuff to get done this week and next. I spent most of today working on the murder mystery party for our Girl Scout troop. I have everything planned out, and now need to make all the props. I started work on the gravestones today. I’ll post pictures of that soon.

Meanwhile, here’s what my so-called work space looks like. My work space is actually the living room couch and coffee table, and it frequently gets over-run with yarn and projects, like it is now.

  

 

 
I volunteered all day today and did more driving around than any mom should. I have a skull-splitting headache.

However, I did get some crochet done today. I’m making this pattern up as I go. Hopefully, I’ll make two big spider webs and stitch them together to make a poncho for myself.

Going to rest now, and maybe crochet myself a new skull since my old one is killing me.

Huzzah! Another crocheted pumpkin!

 
TThis is another leftoever from last month that I decided to finish tonight. I was going to work on a scarf, but I need to look at a few tutorials before I tackle this one. The yarn for the scarf is one of those netted  ribbon yarns, and the pattern I chose is actually a sort of shawl, so I need to do a little research first before I get started on crocheting it. It is not as straightforward as I would have thought.

But it is a Halloween yarn! It’s black, orange, green, purple and grey, and I think it will look lovely when it’s done. So long as I understand the tutorials I’ve found….

 

 
I just put the finishing touches on this! Though small, those flowers actually do take a bit of time to complete, especially since I have to hide the ends and stitch them into place on the skull.  But those were the last details to be added, so now I can say this project is done!

Since October 1, I have crocheted a gloomy corn, a pumpkin, and done all the detail work for this skull. If I count the work I did last month, I’ve crocheted a total of 2 skulls, 9 pumpkins, 3 candy corn and 2 gloomy corn. And I still have no idea what I’m going to do with all these crocheted oddities.

Tomorrow, I think I will crochet myself a quick Halloween scarf. After that, who knows! But I will keep posting as I work on these items 🙂 

Marmalade came and sat on me before I could grab the yarn I wanted to work with to finish the Day of the Dead skull I’ve been working on, so I grabbed the yarn that was in reach and make something else instead.

 

 
I’ve made about a dozen pumpkins so far this season, but this is the first white one I’ve done this year. Somewhere in my yarn stash there are a dozen other white pumkins just like this one, attached to pale green bodies, just waiting for me to add button eyes and embroidered mouths. Maybe I’ll dig them out this week and finish them up for this month’s crochet frenzy. Then I’ll pose them with all the other pumpkins I’ve made along with the candy corns, gloomy corns and Day of the Dead skulls, and I’ll do a photo shoot! Because I honestly have no clue what else to do with these damn things. Seriously, I just started crocheting Halloween stuff last month and I can’t seem to stop.

I think I have a problem.

I have crocheted TEETH!!

 

  Ain’t it loverly?! I still need to make a couple of flowers to add for decoration, but overall, I think this has come out very nicely 🙂

More tomorrow!

 

 

 
I spent most of today working on the webcomic and sewing the Mother Teresa costume for Pixie, so I only got a little crochet work done today, but I’m very happy with what I got done. I decided to go for soft colors on this project, so not black or primary colors for the stitching.

The teeth are the next thing I need to make, and then maybe one or two more decorations. After that, I’m going back to finish up a couple other items I started last month. Then we’ll see what I do next!

More work today on the cushy, cozy, giant Day of the Dead skull. The eye flowers are stitched on and I crocheted the nose today. I’m borrowing the nose pattern from Beastly Crochet by Brenda K. B. Anderson. There are a LOT of patterns in that book that I’m dying to work on, including a Day of the Dead shoulder bag that I got the nose pattern from. Speaking of which, here’s what that looks like on my skull.

 

 
I spent a lot of time today working on another project for this month – a Mother Teresa costume for Pixie. She’s doing a report on Mother Teresa for All Saints Day at school. Then after that, I have to make a Sith costume for Pixie and a Jedi costume for Princess. Lots to do this month, but I’ll keep plugging away.