Category Archives: halloween

Crafts of Halloweens Past: Candy Corn Hat

A hat that looks like Candy Corn? Well, it’s more the spirit of Candy Corn, but it does the trick!

From the wayback machine of 2009, enjoy this simple sweet crochet pattern created in homage of one of the most delightful, delicious and downright bad for you treats of all time.

The pattern is free, just click here!

To make reliving the Crafts of Halloween Past even more fun for you, I’m offering a challenge with a prize!

Make any of my Halloween projects or patterns posted during the course of the month and post a photo to the Sewhooked flickr group tagged “halloween.”

At the end of the month, I’ll draw a winner to receive a free copy of Quiltmaker’s Quilts from 100 Blocks, which includes my pattern Corn Maze! Heck, I’ll even sign it, if you like!

Don’t Miss Week 3 of Name That Mustache, posted this Monday!

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Featured Pattern: A Little Haunted, $8 on Craftsy

Crafts of Halloweens Past: Pumpkin Earrings

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Inspired by the fabulously delicious, dangerous and definitely not-nutritious Mellowcreme Pumpkins, I created super cute earrings for a Halloween swap I participated in back in October 2008.

Pumpkin Earrings Tutorial, inspired by sugar!

Make a pair for yourself or a batch for all of your friends!

To make reliving the Crafts of Halloween Past even more fun for you, I’m offering a challenge with a prize!

Make any of my Halloween projects or patterns posted during the course of the month and post a photo to the Sewhooked flickr group tagged “halloween.”

At the end of the month, I’ll draw a winner to receive a free copy of Quiltmaker’s Quilts from 100 Blocks, which includes my pattern Corn Maze! Heck, I’ll even sign it, if you like!

Don’t Miss Week 3 of Name That Mustache coming up tomorrow!

Do you design paper pieced, embroidery, applique or other quilt patterns? Love John Green books? Join us for the #tfios Design Challenge, happening now on Fandom In Stitches!

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Featured Pattern: Monster Madness $6 Craftsy

Crafts of Halloweens Past: Jack-O-Lantern Finger Puppet

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With all the fabric-related goodness that I share here on Sewhooked, it can be easy, even for me, to forget about all the fun crochet projects I’ve both created and designed over the years.

My Jack-O-Lantern finger puppets were originally designed for my daughter’s kindergarten class. Instead of candy, she passed these out as pencil toppers on fun Halloween pencils. This is the original photo from October 2000. I’m guessing I didn’t have the pencils when I took the photo, but I do remember the fun orange and black pencils!

This is the same daughter that’s a college freshman now, so this really is a craft from the past!

To make reliving the Crafts of Halloween Past even more fun for you, I’m offering a challenge with a prize!

Make any of my Halloween projects or patterns posted during the course of the month and post a photo to the Sewhooked flickr group tagged “halloween.”

At the end of the month, I’ll draw a winner to receive a free copy of Quiltmaker’s Quilts from 100 Blocks, which includes my pattern Corn Maze! Heck, I’ll even sign it, if you like!

Don’t Miss Week 2 of Name That Mustache!

Do you design paper pieced, embroidery, applique or other quilt patterns? Love John Green books? Join us for the #tfios Design Challenge, happening now on Fandom In Stitches!

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Featured Pattern: Monster Madness $6 Craftsy

Crafts of Halloween Past: Cauldron Pin Cushion

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From the way back in 2008 Tutorial machine comes a craft I’ve been making for probably 10 or more years; the Cauldron Pin Cushion!

Anyplace you shop that has Halloween supplies will have 6, 8, or 12 packs of these wee cauldrons.

And, because we can never have enough toys in our sewing spaces, why not a cauldron pin cushion?

For some added magic, use wool instead of polyfil to help keep your needles sharp!

Go to the tutorial!

To make reliving the Crafts of Halloween Past even more fun for you, I’m offering a challenge with a prize!

Make any of my Halloween projects or patterns posted during the course of the month and post a photo to the Sewhooked flickr group tagged “halloween.”

At the end of the month, I’ll draw a winner to receive a free copy of Quiltmaker’s Quilts from 100 Blocks, which includes my pattern Corn Maze! Heck, I’ll even sign it, if you like!

Don’t Miss Week 2 of Name That Mustache tomorrow here on Sewhooked!

Do you design paper pieced, embroidery, applique or other quilt patterns? Love John Green books? Join us for the #tfios Design Challenge, happening now on Fandom In Stitches!

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Featured Pattern: Wizard with Snake, $2 on Craftsy

part of the Friendly Familiars Set!

Crafts of Halloweens Past: Easy Felt Bats

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Here’s another fun craft from Halloweens Past!

What better way to decorate for Halloween than a flock of adorably spooky felt bats?

These guys are about as easy as it gets, needing only a few supplies and maybe half an hour of your time! We have lots of these cute little guys and have used them to decorate both inside and outside our front door.

The Easy Felt Bats Tutorial dates from October 2008. Enjoy!

To make reliving the Crafts of Halloween Past even more fun for you, I’m offering a challenge with a prize!

Make any of my Halloween projects or patterns posted during the course of the month of October and post a photo to the Sewhooked flickr group tagged “halloween.”

At the end of the month, I’ll draw a winner to receive a free copy of Quiltmaker’s Quilts from 100 Blocks, which includes my pattern Corn Maze!

Heck, I’ll even sign it, if you like!

Do you design paper pieced, embroidery, applique or other quilt patterns? Love John Green books? Join us for the #tfios Design Challenge, happening now on Fandom In Stitches!

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Featured Pattern: Frankie, just $2 on Craftsy!
part of the Monster Madness set

Jack Leaves The Light On

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Jack Leaves The Light On, $6 on Craftsy

How about a fun new Halloween-themed table runner pattern? This set is SUPER easy to piece and crazy versatile!

Just need the blocks? Use them for whatever you like!

Want a quick table runner? Piece the three blocks, add borders as shown in the pattern and you’re good to go!

I shared a Jack-O-Lantern block in my video yesterday and mentioned that the pattern was coming soon.

How’s this for soon?!

I originally designed this fun piece for a magazine. They passed on the pattern and it’s been collecting dust in my sewing room ever since.

Tis the season for Trick-or-Treat and what better way to decorate than a fun table runner?

Pattern includes two, full-color 8″ block patterns and instructions to create the table runner shown above.

Want a wall hanging instead? Simply piece the blocks vertically! The same instructions will apply to the wall hanging shown on the left as the original table runner. Slightly more fabric will be needed for the example on the right.

How about a longer table runner? Just add more blocks! I love a little versatility!

Don’t miss Name That Mustache every Monday in October!

See you tomorrow for another Halloween craft blast from the past! Woo, that’s some serious rhyming!

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Featured Pattern: Wizard with Snake, $2 on Craftsy

part of the Friendly Familiars Set!

Crafts of Halloween Past: TARDIS Treat Bag!

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TARDIS Treat Bag Tutorial

I love October and everything the Halloween season has to offer and thought it would be fun to dust off some old favorite crafts and feature them during the course of this month.

Through Time and Space, or at least from October 2010, it’s the TARDIS Treat Bag Tutorial!

I made this fun bag for my daughter back in her freshman year of high school. This year? She’s a freshman in college and the proud owner of the Doctor Who Stitch Along quilt I completed in August of this year.

To make reliving the Crafts of Halloween Past even more fun for you, I’m offering a challenge with a prize!

Make any of my Halloween projects or patterns posted during the course of the month and post a photo to the Sewhooked flickr group tagged “halloween.”

At the end of the month, I’ll draw a winner to receive a free copy of Quiltmaker’s Quilts from 100 Blocks, which includes my pattern Corn Maze! Heck, I’ll even sign it, if you like! 😉

Do you design paper pieced, embroidery, applique or other quilt patterns? Love John Green books? Join us for the #tfios Design Challenge, happening now on Fandom In Stitches!

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Featured Pattern: Fortune Teller, $2 on Craftsy
part of the Busy Bodies pattern set!

Happy Halloween…and flickr!

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Happy Halloween, my crafty & quilty friends!

How about some awesome photos from my flickr group?

(click on the title to go to the pattern…some free, some from my shop)

Trick or Treat Sue by sewsimplelife

Harry Potter Patterns on Fandom In Stitches

by pinlady23

Bikini Top by Suziecurls

Sweet Skating Sue by HerbMyst

A Little Haunted by snowie44

Various Christmas patterns, including Holly Jolly and Sweet Sue Tops The Tree, and more from the Free Pattern page, as well as some original designs by Marjon Savelsberg!

Tabby Face by Suziecurls

Dragon Messenger Bag by hak42

A Little Haunted by PatinWA55

Patchy Hearts by Mariarose3685

Wingless Wyrm by snowie44

Check back Monday for the 100 Blocks Blog Tour!

Have a very happy, safe Halloween!

TTMT #186 – Zillyhoo! and a winner…

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My flickr group – for more fun photos!
Honey Bee Quilt Store – donor of the Quilt Sampler in today’s prize pack.
Quiltmaker 100 Blocks – in which I will be again!
God Tier John Hood Tutorial – I took liberties with this based on my own knowledge of garment making, but I used the hood dimensions exactly and it worked out perfectly. If you’re looking for a tutorial to use, this one will be hard to beat.

….and the winner is!

kwilterPT!

Thanks to everyone that participated in the drawing by sharing a photo of their Trick-or-Treat Sue with my flickr group!

Get the free pattern and read the blog hop post here!

Check out the rest of the great entries:

by dozmuffinxc

by snowie44

by Fzttwo

by soma1773

by jewelri

by dawnelvis

by Susie’s Sunroom

by Carin

by craftytokyomama

Check back Monday for the 100 Blocks Blog Tour!

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Featured Pattern Set: Holly Jolly, just $6 on Craftsy!

Something (not so) Wicked…

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Welcome friends, old and new!

Halloween is one of my favorite times of year…

Candy!

Costumes!

Candy!

Scary movies!

Candy!

Wait, did I already say that? 😉

TODAY is particularly special to me because it is my very best friend’s birthday!

*throws confetti*

Happy birthday, Jewells!

>>> Trick-or-Treat Sue <<<

10″ paper pieced
free for your personal & non-profit use

In celebration of Soma’s fabulous Halloween-themed hop, I’ve created a pattern just for you in one of my absolute favorite themes: Sunbonnet Sue!

I love her so much, she and her friends have their own page here on Sewhooked!

This little Sue has dressed up like a witch and has headed out to trick-or-treat!

Is that candy I see in her pumpkin?

From concept to block: EQ7 version on the left, in fabric on the right!

Tip: Reduce your pattern by 50% to create a 5″ block!

How fun is she with a variety of different patterns?

Tip: Want your Sue to face the other way? Just print your pattern in mirror image!

Make Trick or Treat Sue and share her with my flickr group for a chance to win this fun prize pack! Winner receives Pumpkin Coasters donated by Jewells, an autographed copy of Quilt Sampler magazine, courtesy of Honey Bee Quilt Store, a featured store in this issue and a sweet Halloween bag of fat quarters!

Winner to be announced on Tuesday, October 30, 2013. Only photos shared via flickr are eligible to win.

More haunted fabric-y goodness…

A Little Haunted, also available on Craftsy!