Halloween
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Pumpkin Carving on Craft Pumpkins
NOTE: This is part two of a two part series, read about carving on real pumpkins here. Although I love the look and feel of real pumpkins around my house in the fall, I also love the fact that craft pumpkins will last longer than one season! This is especially true if I am taking the time to carve a pumpkin with a really intricate design. My 10 year old daughter, Korey, loved the idea of keeping her carved pumpkin for several seasons so she carved a Funkins Craft pumpkin. We used Sulky Stick ‘n Carve and chose one of the free designs from Zombie Pumpkins that you get when you buy the…
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Easy Pumpkin Carving!
This past weekend, we went with some friends to North Georgia to Burt’s Pumpkin Patch. It’s a fun place with lots and lots of pumpkins. Today, the girls wanted to carve our pumpkin. I pulled out my package of Sulky Stick n’ Carve and we downloaded the 10 free designs that you get when you purchase Stick ‘n Carve. The designs are by Zombie Pumpkins and are amazing. I have to admit, I wasn’t sure if my 9 and 10 year old would be able to actually carve the designs they picked, but I figured we would give it shot. We do have the Professional Pumpkin Carving Tool Set from Zombie Pumpkins…
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Free Halloween Hand Embroidery Patterns
Free Halloween Hand Embroidery Patterns Get in the Halloween spirit with these free Halloween hand embroidery patterns! Each of these designs are so cute would make a great addition to a bag, shirt, or tea towel. First, we have the Trick or Treat and Drink & Be Scary designs, which you can download here. Create a garden flag with these designs and put in your yard for trick or treaters, or add it to a tea towel for some Halloween kitchen decor! We also have 6 more FREE Halloween hand embroidery designs for you! The Spooky Spider and Spider Web hand embroidery patterns (seen below) are 2 of the 6…
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My Favorite Halloween Placemat Tutorial
Have you noticed a theme in my Halloween Decor? I love spiders! I think they are fascinating; the way they make their webs, how they move around so much, even the designs on their bodies. It’s probably because “Charlotte’s Web” and “Be NiceTo Spiders” were my favorite books growing up. Halloween gives me a chance to put cute, spider-y things all over the house! (Let’s be honest, spider decor all year round is just creepy). A few years ago I bought cute spider web placemats for my breakfast table but the center of the table was naked! It needed a little something, so I made this wonderful placemat for the…
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One Great Halloween Table Topper
The Halloween spirit continues with this fun table topper! For this one, I picked some of the fun Halloween fabric from my stash and just started cutting wedges with my 10° Wedge Ruler. I know the lengths are all a little different but I will get to how I fixed that in a bit. My shortest wedge was about 8.” If your shortest piece is shorter or longer, then your circle will end up being a little bigger or smaller. My finished diameter is 24″. The first thing to do is to just sew strips together until you get a circle that lays flat. Next, I needed a template to…
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Another Easy Halloween Embroidery Idea
One of the things I love about machine embroidery is that I can make really cute things pretty quickly! With the right design and some good quality thread, I can spruce up an ordinary jar is a half hour. I was actually surprised at how easy it was to embroider on this burlap wire ribbon. I simply hooped a piece of Sulky Sticky+ ™ stabilizer and then stuck the ribbon to that. I then put a piece of Sulky Heat-Away™ as a topper. If you have ever smelled wet burlap, you know why I used Heat Away instead of Solvy! I used this cute Boo design that is available from…
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Fun Halloween Machine Embroidery Project
I love Halloween! I love decorating my house, the costumes, the trick or treating; it’s all just good clean fun. I am so glad that I live in a neighborhood where we get lots of Trick or Treaters! Since Halloween is on a Saturday this year, my annual Halloween party will be bigger than ever. That means I need to make a lot more decorations. I started with this fun and easy table top decoration. I got all the embroidery designs from The Sulky Embroidery Club! I used this Halloween Spoolie, And I chose these other two designs from a Halloween set in the Sulky Embroidery Club. I used a…
