Halloween Slide Show: A new Experiment for me!

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!
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Hope that the day is not tooooooooooooooo scary for you all (grinning sadistically)
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You can see a few other Halloween projects here.
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Pierrette =^..^=

Halloween Memories: Time for some fun

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Halloween is around the corner and I thought it would be fun to bring back some of the projects I have made for past Halloweens.
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This little friendly ghost washing the cobwebs is the only one that I have kept for myself and just love it. It is very hard not to smile when looking at it.
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This needlepoint one with the witch flying while the two black cats are looking up at the moon was made especially for Terry last year. She had two black cats at the time.
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This one has been made this year, again for Terry, as an ID card. She tells me that she has been having lots of fun showing it around. I have been asking her whether people see a resemblance with herself and the response I thought was the funniest was when someone told her that I must have been using a very bad photo to make it and all that time I thought I had done such an incredible job (big grin).
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- This is a postcard I had made for an exchange a couple of years back. This is a Dracula Spider, if such things exists (grinning again).
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Hope everyone has lots of fun on Halloween day.

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Pierrette =^..^=

Halloween ID Card for my friend Terry

Click on photo to have a better look.
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With Halloween around the corner, I wanted to make something special for my friend Terry and what could be more personal than her own Halloween ID Card.
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This has been an ongoing joke between the two of us, with her jumping on her broomstick to come visit in order to save on petrol (she lives in the UK) and I live in the USA.
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I was concerned that with all the Halloween sky traffic, some overzealous policeman might stop her and ask her for some identification. She can't very well show him her driver's permit since she would be flying, so now she is ready for all eventualities :-)
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The photo was scanned as the digital camera was not giving good pictures, but I am afraid that her hair was a bit squeezed in the process. Oh well, we can't win them all :-(
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It was actually a long process to make that little ID card as first I had to decide on some drawings for the witch, then I had to find photos for the ID itself, put the two together, then added a bit of color with Prismacolor crayons, then scanned it and printed it on fabric. After that started stitching, then added a bit more color this time with some watercolor crayons and a little bit of water, then found some purple fabric for the back, put a little padding in between and stitched the back with the front.
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Of course, I had to write Terry's name with profession and I just had to stitch a little spider. No Halloween respectable photo would find itself without either spiderwebs or spiders, so added that last detail. She is not a real witch as she has that plastic nose that is being held with an elastic. Gave her some reddish hair as those are Terry's natural hair color. I did not want to make her clothing too chic as she is a witch after all and they are not supposed to be well dressed.
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Well I had my fun now and hope that Terry has fun with it too. Now I will be moving to something more serious and start working on a beginner's metal thread project. That will be something new to learn for me and looking forward to it. Next one after that will probably be a beginner's stumpwork project.
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I will also probably work on some special gifts in between so I will have my hands full like always.
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Pierrette =^..^=

Halloween's Friendly Ghost : Flat-Fold Finishing

As I was saying in my last post, I have been keeping myself busy finishing some already stitched projects and I have just completed the Flat-Fold finishing on my little ghost (little Halloween project). I have done quite a few Halloween projects, but they have all been giving away, so this is the very first that I get to keep for myself :-)

Some time ago I had purchased a little finishing book called "The Flat-Fold" written by Judy Odell. This booklet is part of her "Just A Thought" series explaining different ways of finishing projects. For those of you who might be interested, her web site is http://www.justathought.net/prod/booksandbooklets.shtml

I must say that the way she explains things together with lots of photos made it quite easy for me to do my first flat-fold finishing.

I have added a little spider on my finished project. Looking at her, I have been wondering what she could possibly be thinking about our friendly or perhaps not so friendly ghost in her case. Those spider webs are quite fragile and watching our smiling ghost washing them and then hanging them to dry like that could be enough to give our little spider a heart attack or at the very least a nervous breakdown <>

I will now be moving on to a project that I have just started before I started working on all those finishing, which is called "A Cottage Garden". This is an "Inspirations" magazine project and it will become another needlecase. This one though will be for me since the last one was given to my good friend Terry.

Pierrette =^..^=

Happy Halloween!

Well, I have been having fun these past couple days stitching something for Halloween.

I found this cute little drawing and thought that was exactly what I needed at this time of the year. What is Halloween without some ghosts and spiders to spook us a little? Here the spiders are gone because our friendly ghost has been hard at work washing all those nasty cobwebs :-)

Pierrette =^..^=

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Dracula Spider Postcard

When I participated in a postcard exchange a couple years back, I wanted to have some fun and found this drawing and decided to make a postcard out of it. I had lots of fun making it - just too bad I could not keep it :-)

Pierrette =^..^=

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Cats

Cats is an ABS Designs and was hand painted by Anne Stradal. You can see the actual design on her web site http://absdesigns.tripod.com/

The first time I saw this design I immediately thought of my very good friend Terry because we have been joking around a lot about her using her broom and flying all the way to the USA from UK as the price of petrol as they call it overthere is very expensive. She also has two black cats, making the design perfect for us.

I wanted to surprise her and bring a smile on her face at a time when she was not feeling all that well and I stitched it for her. This was my first painted canvas that I actually stitched from start to finish. I have a few more that have been started but are still sitting in my pile of UFOs.

I finished it as a door hanger for her and she has actually suspended it on her stitching lamp so that she can see it all the time.

When Anne saw it completed she asked me if I wanted her to add it to her Guest Gallery and here it is: http://absdesigns.tripod.com/guest_gallery.htm

This is one project that I think I had a grin on my face from start to finish while trying to imagine Terry's face when she would actually receive it :-)

Pierrette =^..^=
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