Halloween Witches

What a spooky dress.

mean witch face

I made a few of these little witches last night. They are from a Freddy Moran pattern, but I got the idea to turn Freddy’s Garden Girls into witches from Deo. She is so clever! The embroidered face is my touch. I really like her spooky dress…. very creepy.

 

witch

black cat dress

Today I took a machine applique class where I practice a sampler of techniques. I did invisible applique with nylon thread, blanket stitch in contrasting color, raw edge with fusible web, and I practiced putting a light interfacing in one piece to add dimension, plus making stems. I was also shown how to make perfect circles using washers and making stems using metal bias bars. This was a very helpful class because I tried a few weeks ago to do some different applique techniques from Sue Nichol’s book, and I had a horrible time. Kathy’s method with freezer paper was waaaaay easier. It will help me a lot with my Loose Thread’s challenge.

flower sampler

invisible on green, variegated on petals

yellow is raw edgethe veins shouldn't be so similar, but hey

So I am in charge of Artist Trading Cards this year. (Plus I am “Historian” or scrapbooker.) I am continuing on with Barbara’s good idea of coming up with a theme or focus for each month’s set of cards. September’s is music. Any take on the theme goes- song, musician, instrument, etc. October’s is of course Halloween- don’t fix it if it aint broke, right? Can’t get much funner than that! November’s theme is fruits & vegetables- this is a more broad version of the traditional cornucopia. December’s is winter night, I believe.  I see snow, black sky, star, cabin, wreath on barn door, one light shining from a cabin or cottage. hmmmm  

music atc

i like the pressed flower looking stickers.

Today was my mom’s birthday so I went by in the evening to giver her her card & gift (a lavendar plant…. that plant always reminds me of her)…but she wasn’t home! I hung out for an hour….drank a beer, checked out her quilting books & magazines, tried to get the satellite cable to work but couldn’t… petted Willie…… then left. I wonder where she could have been so late at night! Usually she is asleep early. Well, anyway…..before that I took Barnabas to the Bark Park at Plaza Park (ha!) and walked around the baseball diamonds and ditch. The ducks did not like Barnie, but he found them quite interesting.

asleep in his spot in the sun. Cuuuuuuute!!!!!!

No word on job…. didn’t get it. = (

The Valero gas station is hiring.