I'm enjoying the Out of the dark blog hop and the creations have been fabulous. Thanks to Joan from MooseStash Quilting for organising the event. For this event I wanted to try something different. I opened my computer and logged in to google AI. My plan was to give the information about what I wanted to create and get AI to draw it for me. It took a little while and I needed to tweek some of my instructions but finally the printer churned out my completed picture. It wasn't what I had asked AI for but it was fairly close!

I had decided that I wanted to do this by hand so that I could do the stitching in my lunch hour. October is a very busy period at work with all our new students, getting them fully enrolled and fire fighting all the problems that arise. I knew I would end up working late and by hand stitching I could work on it in my breaks and in online meetings. I spent some time choosing my fabrics and I used the shapes from the generated design to cut the patterns. All was going well until last weekend when my son became ill, one of the ladies I trained with back in the 1970's died and I felt very unwell after my flu jab. The end result is that my piece is incomplete.

My poor old witch is missing her legs, arms and eyes. I now have tomorrow to complete her as I promised my grandson that she would be ready for Halloween. To be honest I could finish her tonight as my post doesn't have to go live just yet but I am tired. I also tend to make mistakes when I start rushing things. I will post a picture at the weekend of her once completed.

I have enjoyed adding some stuffing to areas of her face and the pumpkin also has stuffing in it. I decided to use purple wool for her hair. I really like the cat fabric that I found for her dress.

Tomorrow I need to get organised and add some decorations to the house and buy some treats as I know we will have some small visitors coming trick or treating.

Here is the list of people on today's hop. Do pop over and visit them.

Just Let Me Quilt

Sew Many Yarns

Kathleen McMusing

BeaQuilter

The Quilted Snail

Wishing you all a spooky and fun Halloween.

Take care

Lyndsey