Tomorrow is Halloween, if you hadn’t noticed! I’ve been busy making lots of pumpkins again, both for us here at home and to sell.
I’ve used the same basic pattern for all of them, just sizing up /down my needles depending on the yarn I was using. This year, I’ve experimented a bit more, using a variety of yarn thicknesses. I’ve also doubled up some of the yarns and tried a few variegated yarns too. The chenille yarns are particularly lovely to work with and the finished results are very soft and cuddly to the touch.
I have also made some more tassel ghosts. I made a few last year and they were very popular for hanging decorations and with the kids. I’ve used white DK yarns and made the eyes by die-cutting tiny circles from black felt.
My local sandwich shop – Food Foundry – asked if I would like to make a basket of pumpkins and some ghosts for them to sell in the shop. So they currently have a selection adorning their till area. Fingers crossed they sell them all too!
Well I must get everything ready for the Trick or Treater’s tomorrow and I still have my pumpkin to carve!
Hope you all have a fun and safe Halloween.
Happy crafting
K x
The problem with trying to stick to the rainbow format is making sure I have an equal number of balls of each colour. I keep having to stop and go on a hunt for either red or range at the moment! So I’m going through my WIP bag to finish off a project each time I run out of a colour. Hopefully this will mean I can kill two birds with one stone, finishing off a WIP as well as using up the leftovers on my blanket. It does appear that I don’t have much in the red category amongst my projects at present. I suppose I’d better make a start on some Christmas projects!!
There’s certainly plenty of work left in the this blanket, so I’m going to have to find another series to work along too – there seem to be fewer and fewer escapist programmes to watch these days. Although I have got into Tess of the d’Urbevilles over on BBC4.