I put my name down for a #colourpopcraftswap on Instagram a few weeks ago. The name says it all. It’s a craft swap. You make something for someone, someone else makes something for you. I have no idea if my recipient got my present (they haven’t posted any pictures of it) but I got my gift! It was very exciting to receive a surprise parcel in the post. Boo!
I made a garland with pumpkins, stars, bats and one of my spiders.
It was impossible to take a good picture of it. Maybe it was just a terrible garland. I hope that’s not why the person didn’t share a picture! I made it with pastels and some glittery yarn. It was supposed to be bright and colourful.
I love my spiders! The purple one made a home in the garland. I don’t know where the grey one is. Does anyone else fancy making one? I’d love to see. I posted the pattern a few weeks ago. It’s over on my free patterns page but you can also just jump straight to it.
I made this last year. It was a rush job. I remember hastily cobbling together some grainy photos of the process. My tiara post is here.
The tiara was made as part of my fancy dress costume for a Hallowe’en party. I’m still not sure what I was.. a witch, bad fairy? I think I wore green wings.
My little Ami Halloween Collection made their first appearance. You can read about those here and find the pattern on Ravelry.
And here’s a tenuous one. Owls can be Halloweeny. The pattern is a downloadable pdf. That could do with a redesign too (what was I thinking?!). The pattern itself is good but I went a bit over the top on the graphic design. I had help but it was me who wanted all the green!
Just sharing these old pictures tells me how much my photography has improved (the current ones for this post aren’t much better actually, so maybe I shouldn’t comment!). I know that some bloggers go back and change dodgy old blog posts but a lot of mine are dodgy; it’d take an eternity to rectify! Part of why I blog is to record my creative progress and I think it’s all part of the process. I’ll keep it all as it is.
Great post! I think the photos of your garland are great! Especially the one which stretches along the book shelf. Really artistic. I agree with you about leaving old blog posts as they are. I wouldn’t dream of going back. They are what they are and as you say a record of that point in time. Happy Halloween! 🙂
Thank you very much!
I’m glad you think so too. I wouldn’t want to hide all the things that brought me to crochet better. (I’m not sure if that sentence works but hopefully it conveys the message!)
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It sure does 🙂 🙂 x
I would have loved to see the bat close up. It looked really cool from the garland!
I don’t know if I have more photos of the bats. I made them using my ami halloween patterns (they’re on Ravelry. There is a picture of a black one there) or go here: https://zeensandroger.wordpress.com/2015/10/01/getting-ready-for-halloween-amigurumi-patterns-aplenty/
I’ll have a look and see if I took any of the colourful ones. It wasn’t that long ago, you’d have thought I’d remember!! 🙂
Thanks for the links!
I’ve been rubbish with Halloween this year. Poor considering everyone goes mad for it here. I like the different colours in your garland. As for pictures, I think the same. I’m actually enjoying watching my Instagram pics evolve from pants to still pants. It’s all part of the learning curve. Have a great Halloween!
I’ve not done as much this year. Hence sharing all of last year’s gubbins!
Loved your toffee apple pic on IG. And all those dyed yarns!!
Toffee apples look better than they taste but I can’t resist making them. I’m enjoying the dyeing, being here inspired me to try the natural dyes. I must write a blog post about it all soon.
I haven’t had a toffee apple for years. They’re much better to look at than eat. Very pretty.
I’d love to read about the dyeing process. And what you’ll do with all the yarn!