A Monster Who Swallowed a Fly

I was in charge of Claire's Halloween Party in Kindergarten, so for the craft/activity, we made a monster face, that you can sing, "There was a blue monster who swallowed a fly."

I cut out the face out of that foamy paper stuff and glued it to a stick. I made one of these for each of the kids and then I cut out a bunch of different shapes for hair, eyes, nose, and ears- all in different colors and shapes, so the kids could build their own kind of monster (kinda like mr. potato head). These were all cut out in the sparkly foamy paper, that had a sticky back. So no glue, no drama, no mess- easy-peasy, and it turned out pretty cute. Here is the one Claire made:


And then once everyone made their monsters, we pulled the paper through the mouth to sing the song. The kids liked it and had fun.

Finally Starting My Christmas Decorations

I'm starting with my Christmas quilt, using my figgy pudding material. Here is the beginning. I'm actually thrilled with the way that it is coming together.

If I have enough left over fabric, I'd like to make a table running with the Christmas trees.  Maybe add a border with some sort of pieced squares.  Oh how I wish I had more time to sew!

Easton's Block Revisited

I used the remaining scraps to try making another block, without the minki this time.  It went together much better, although if I could make it again, I would iron the block befoer stuffing it.  I also made a "taggie blanket" with more scraps. 

Mike's Trick or Treat Bag

Mike wanted to be a "happy scary monster" for Halloween, so this is the bag that I came up with.  I found the picture of a monster on the intenet, printed it off, blew it up, and used it as a pattern for my applique.  Mike loved it, even though 2 days before Halloween he told me he changed his mind and he wanted to be a dinosaur.  Argh!

Quilting re-done

After spending a couple hours unpicking my previous quilt job and re-doing it in boring straight lines, my table topper is done. Even though I used boring straight lines, it still turned out very nice, much nicer than before. It lies flat, and it really looks good. I just wish I wasn't too chicken to try the curly-Q's and pumpkins again. I think my biggest mistake before was not putting the safety pins close enough, and I not turning off the feed dogs.



p.s. At least I didn't turn it into shorts!!

Abby's Halloween Costume

I'm almost embarrassed to post this, after Brooke's darling creation. 

Originally, I was going to have the tutu with a poodle skirt over it (see below), but it looked too much like a red mushroom, so I scrapped that idea and just sewed a few dots on the tutu.  She'll be wearing a black onsie and black tights under this.  I'm also toying with the idea of removing the black spots from the tutu and just leaving it as plain red.  What do you think? 

The poodle skirt that I don't think I'll use. 

She'll be wearing two pigtails (like antennas) with these two flower barrettes. 

I spent more time on the bag than I did on the costume, but I liked how it turned out.  I made it completely with scraps from the Harry Potter Capes (and last years Halloween Project).  Total cost of everything:  $7.  Yippee

PS.  I don't know what is wrong with my camera, but the pictures turned out funny.

PSS  I know my spelling is atrocious (see!), but I can't figure out how to spell check with this new blogger format.  Any help?