Candy Corn Bunting - Easy Peasey Friday Finish

My mom and her sisters have a traditional October girls' reunion that always includes a craft. So while my mom and dad were visiting us this October, mom and I had a craft.

We made candy corn bunting!

The jars atop the mantle are canning jars, filled with candy corn and a dollar store emergency candle. Very cute and easy if you're looking for a cute and easy decoration. (Side note - I cannot wait to take a sledge hammer to these stupid granite tiles around the fireplace.)

After mom left, I went ahead and made another bunting. Because it's not possible to have too much bunting. Here it is, in it's temporary position below the candy corns. Eventually I'm hoping it will go outside, on the wedding arbor. That's right - there is going to be a Halloween wedding here!

Meow!

Best,
Heather

Looking for a Whoop Whoop - linking up to Sarah at Confessions of a Fabric Addict

The Halloween Pumpkin Funk

I have the funk. The quilty funk. Nothing quilt related appeals to me at the moment, not even fabric shopping. 

I've been thinking off and on about why I get in these little melancholy quilty moods. Why nothing in the fabric stash appeals, no UFO begs to be finished, and not even online fabric shopping gets my heart to pitter patter. I've been reading quilt themed mystery novels from the library to jump start my quilt ambitions, to no avail.


I've concluded, that at least for the time being, my answer is HALLOWEEN. I LOVE HALLOWEEN. I've  been spending days and days deciding how to decorate for Halloween. I've been making crafts here and there, checking in at the $1 store for spooky little odds and ends that are cheap, cheap, and cheap. I've now used a glue gun, people. It was a trans-formative experience. I want to glue gun everything. Since all my creations are more or less coming to fruition now, I'll start sharing them with you.

To ease into the crafty messiness, and tie in somewhat to quilting, I'll begin with my fabric pumpkins! I grew exactly two pumpkins this year. One heirloom sugar and one Jack Be Little. In my best year I had 30+ pumpkins, so this was a major disappointment.  I NEED pumpkins for Halloween. As in many pumpkins.

My fabric pulls went from a sweet, lovely semi organized folded bunch to this chaos...

 Then out of the jumbled mess arose this...

which became this...

 Then this...

I've got my own little patch of 'em, 

I hope you enjoyed my pumpkins - I just love them to pieces. Alright, I'm off now to erect my frames outside for Halloween decorations in the front yard.

Best,
Heather

Linking up to Kelly at My Quilt Infatuation

WIP Wednesday - Flimsy & Halloween

The flimsy!

 The ovarian cancer ribbon mega mini is on pace to finish at the end of the month. I hadn't really considered the timing of it, but I did have a routine appointment with the oncology office yesterday. It was a good check-up!

Meanwhile - Fall is here! My favorite season, I love the colors, the cool air, sleeping with the windows open, Halloween! 

Of course, I can't focus on one project until it's done. I have to start something else - so I pulled all the Halloween, oranges, and blacks out of the stash. 

I love skull fabric!

 And I started on a little something. My mom made the prototype for this, I'd guess at least 30 years ago.

They look like orange wedges!

It's well on the way! I'm winging it in terms of a template, and the size, and well, everything. It's not like there is a pattern, but so far it's been a forgiving project. I cannot wait to see how it turns out! 

Linking up to Lee at Freshly Pieced

For WIP Wednesday