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I like Halloween because it is the perfect excuse to get all crafty and show up with a more creative costume than everyone else. (I'm totally not competitive at all!) Last year I made a pretty big hit with an Operation style costume, complete with removable velcro parts.
This year, I want to be Miss Chiquita Banana. I decided this before I really looked up the dress, mostly because I wanted to wear a bowl of fake fruit on my head. Yeah, her dress is actually a little ugly! It also looks like it would be hard to make. I'm goona give it a go though - but maybe I'll start by making paper mache fruit. That seems easy enough!
Here is a picture of Miss Chiquita from a few years back, her name is Jennifer. As far as the fruit in her hat goes, it looks like it's mostly bananas and apples, with a few oranges, maybe a pinapple and a couple of red grapes thrown in for good measure.
But where, oh where, am I going to find blue shoes????
This dress is to wear to the wedding that I made the quilt for. I decided that I needed a new pretty dress, so I found one that I loved in the McCall's catalouge (#5099). I walked around JoAnn frabrics for ages, trying to find the perfect fabric. I finally found a deep purple silky crepe type fabric, but I kept walking away from it because well, I don't really like purple. But, finally it won and I bought it - and some really sweet silver ribbon. These ruffle things on the front, they look pretty don't they? Let me tell you a little bit about them. Pain in the butt! Try cutting out a spiral of fabric, hemming one side and then straightening them out and sewing them to the rest of the dress. Whoa. That teaches me to get a girly style! Anyways, it finally go finished... I decided to go without the bow, just a straight ribbon. Now I just have to find shoes!
This quilt was finished a little while ago, in fact right now it is all wrapped up, ready to be given away. It is a little sad a
cutally. I quite enjoyed having on my lap while I hand stitched the back of the border on. The pattern is called Antique Tile. The cross stitch pattern in the middle took a long time. The pattern was generated by this site, using a nice picture I found online. I hope it is well liked as a wedding gift!
I like Halloween because it is the perfect excuse to get all crafty and show up with a more creative costume than everyone else. (I'm totally not competitive at all!) Last year I made a pretty big hit with an Operation style costume, complete with removable velcro parts.
