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Monday 21 October 2024

Wicked

Today is day 1 of the Wicked blog hop. Thanks to Carol from Just let me quilt for organising the hop.

I had an idea in my mind about the project I wanted to make, but I wasn't sure how to make it. My brain would decide 'yes' this is the project and then the next day I would change my mind. Then two weeks ago I was talking to one of my neighbours who has a little girl of 6 (or could be 7) . She was telling me that her daughter and friends wanted to have a Halloween party for themselves and their favourite dolls. I thought that sounded like fun. A few days later I met my neighbour and her daughter. The daughter had her Luna Lapin toy rabbit and she asked me if I'd make her toy a witches black dress. Of course I said yes.

I used the pattern from the Luna Lapin book. This makes a smock style dress with pockets. It was a little fiddly to make and I was able to try it on the Luna Lapin I made for myself. I still need to embroider the face on my rabbit. I added some black velvet ribbon for a scarf but I want to add some fringing to it. I also made a witches hat from some black card stock. Thank goodness for double sided tape. Finally I made a Halloween doll quilt in black and white with a lot of skulls on it.

When I showed the dress and hat to my neighbours daughter, she said the hat had to have holes for her ears to fit through so I added them. I have also agreed to make her some spiders to decorate the hat. She loved the skulls on the quilt. My young 'customer' had some more requirements for the outfit. Her rabbit will need a wand and a broom stick for her to fly on. I need to collect some twigs during my lunch break on Thursday, when I can go to the park.

I haven't decorated for Halloween for the last two years so I went hunting the items I'd made in the past. The only thing I could find was this table topper. I love the black cat it reminds me of Picasso.