Halloween! 2025

I was so busy during the Halloween season, but now it's done. I was pleasantly pleased to have 22 trick-or-treaters, because we had very nice weather this year. I was in a couple of swaps, so I didn't get a ton of crafting done for myself. But I did do this...

I have seen this mummy Snoopy and Woodstock online several places and they were exorbitantly priced. I had a piece of wood that I got scrap at a lumber yard for free, I just drew the picture on and cut it out with my jigsaw and painted it. Snoopy is 21 inches tall if that is any indication. Everywhere I looked they were $50 or more. Mine was free. And I really love it, it's so cute. I also did some crocheting...

The goofy pumpkin and little squash are actually a pattern on Ravelry. The tall one is called Herman pumpkin doll by cottontail and whiskers. But at the time I could not afford to buy them so I just made my own. The skull earrings and pendant, I made several of these. I gave them his gifts. There was a YouTube video. Some of them that I made were white and some of them were black. But all were well received. here are some of the decorations inside and outside my home... and some pictures of my beautiful pups. Rebel was not in the mood to get his photo taken, but Pixie is always in the mood.

Labubu

I have recently discovered Labubus. I think they are very cute, but they are so very expensive I would never buy one. I have been looking around for a different patterns to create my own. I found one that looked almost exactly like a real one. It was a knitting pattern which, I am not nearly as good at knitting as I am at crocheting, but I am proficient enough to do this pattern because it had very easy stitches. There was even a link to get the silicone face and hands and feet. To my surprise when I went to purchase them, they were $1.06! As a first time customer, they are much cheaper and no shipping! I bought the yarn at the dollar store for $1.25 I believe. It could've been $1.50 but no more than that. It didn't even take one skein of this 65 yard skein. It is chenille... super chunky. Anyway, even though I followed the pattern exactly the body was fatter than the video showed, and did not taper up toward the neck as it also showed. And the head was much much much smaller than it showed. I don't know how to "fix" knitting mistakes, so I just added some crochet stitches on the head to make it larger and it doesn't even show. After some finagling, I think she turned out very cute! So I have my Labubu...named Hope...and she cost me less than three dollars!

Getting ready for Halloween!

I started a bit early on some Halloween projects, because somehow I always end up not getting anything done in time! So here we have.. Creepy Jack...

He turned out much larger than I expected but I do really love that he is this large. It's about 10 inches high counting the crow. He was a pattern from ravelry called creepy pumpkins. Next we have Sparky... from the movie Frankenweenie I don't remember where I got the pattern but it is called Halloween dog... by Marina Borisova

Next we have something I saw on Pinterest I just made myself without a pattern. I have subsequently seen others I liked better, so I might have to make another. But here is floating goes by lamp post....

And last but not least… Because there will be more for more posts... This is Farley Frankenstein and Janice

Farley and Janice are also a pattern on Ravelry. they also have a brother/cousin called Zed the zombie... which I made last year. Janice was supposed to have a big button for an eye, but I chose this monster eye because I thought it would make her look cooler! And I think I was right! OK more to come soon...

Giles....Cassowary!

Today I am pleased to present Giles! He is my newest creation! I absolutely love strange and interesting wildlife, and I think Cassowaries are awesome! In the real world, they are 4 foot 11 to 5 foot 11! And they can be quite dangerous, but they are also quite cool looking. I've wanted to make one for quite some time, and my original thought was to make one about 4 foot tall, which of course would've been crazy! But, I decided it would take me much too long of a time to crochet something that large, and I have so many other projects I want to make, so I made Giles a bot smaller. He is about 2 1/2 feet tall. Still quite large as crocheted animals go. I sketched out on several pieces of paper how I basically wanted him to look, then followed that "pattern" as I crocheted along. I also originally thought I would just brush out the body to make it look fluffy and furry… like they look in real life. But then I decided, in for a penny in for a pound, and so I added small strips of yarn to almost every stitch in his body to make him have long feathers. This took me several days and several hours each day… But I absolutely love the result. I thought I was finished and then I thought...hmmm... And I added a couple of little extra touches with acrylic paint pens to make his face look more realistic. I'm so pleased with the result.