So I said in an earlier post- I think – that I wanted to try to do a new Halloween craft everyday – well at least work on one everyday – up until Halloween.
Things I have already made:
– a crochet cauldron to hold candy (though there aren’t trick or treaters in Korea, so I will just have to offer the candy to my students when they come)
– a spiderweb table topper that sits on my tutoring table. I put my cauldron on top. next to the cauldron sits the witch hat my husband bought for me last Halloween.
– a crochet witchetty grub that is sitting on top of the candy inside the cauldron.
– a Coraline doll I crocheted and is now sitting on my bookcase.
– Some paper cut outs of a black cat, a witch, and a ghost that I put on my mirrors.
– Pirate Pal. A crochet pirate. I got the pattern from Lion Brand if you’re interested. They also have a cute pumpkin pal.
Yesterday I made a small ghost bookmark out of felt.
Today I began to make some poison apples that I got from the book Witch Craft.
I only have one of the three cut out of felt. I will begin sewing it together soon. But since it is going on 7pm here I probably won’t start putting it together until tomorrow, since the hubby and I are watching Hellboy II at the moment.
The apples will probably take me a couple of days to complete. Then I am on to the next project; a felt jack o’ lantern.
Not related to Halloween. But related to fall. I am knitting a shrug. Yes, it is finally starting to get cool here. FINALLY. Anyway, still being a new knitter, I became insanely frustrated with the pattern and tore my stitches out again and again. I probably redid it about 5 or six times until I got the whole knit purl knit purl thing. I had no idea (and the pattern never said) that if you start with a knit purl pattern on one side, when you turn it you then begin doing a purl knit purl knit. Maybe my brain wasn’t functioning at 100 percent but it took me so long to figure it out. It didn’t help that the pattern just said continue with the knit purl knit until you get to 5cm. ><
WHY COULDN’T IT JUST SAY:
” Row 2: purl knit purl you dummy!”
Instead of claiming the pattern easy, they should have been more specific like saying “Yeah it’s easy. It’s easy for advanced knitters, not for a beginner loser like you who is just going to mess up anyway and scream and cry and madly search google for the answer and not find it!”
Umm so anyway, I finally figured it out on my own and I have actually gotten pretty quick with the needles. But yeah, the shrug will probably still end up being a big pile of poop green. As of now, though, I must say it is going well. Just I am using big needles on not so thick yarn… But I have a big sweater that is like that and I love it, so maybe it will be wearable. Let me rephrase. Maybe it will be something I can wear outside, in public.
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