Category: Halloween

So, funny but true story. I lost my skull.

Before you panic, or die of laughter, I’m talking about a crochet skull, one I made last month. After I really got going with the whole crochet pumpkins thing, I decided to branch out into other spooky items, and skulls seemed a good idea to me. But I didn’t want a tiny skull, I wanted something bigger. So I dug out some Lion Brand chunky wool/acrylic yarn from my stash and got to stitching. And man, did I make a HUGE skull!

But then I lost it. I took the skull with me back to the stash too look for coordinating colors, because I wanted this to be a Day of the Dead skull. And at some point, I put it down, and it disappeared into my stash, and then I sort of forgot about it as I went to work on making some Gloomy Corns (because my mind jumps around like that).

Yesterday, I realized I needed to finish the giant skull, but I had no idea where it was! And that sort of surprised me, because you’d think even I couldn’t misplace something that big. I mean, this skull is bigger than my actual head!

Fortunately, I found it this morning after searching through my yarn stash again. I had apparently dropped it in a bag of unfinished projects (and yes, it’s big bag because I have a lot of unfinished projects). So I grabbed my skull and the coordinating yarns I had picked out and off and on throughout today, I worked on crocheting some big flowers to use for its eyes.

To make my funny story a little funnier, I just happened to finish making these flowers while watching Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull with Hubster and the kids. So now I want to crochet a big alien skull to go with the Day of the Dead skull I’m working on. We’ll have to see if I actually get that one done.

Anyway, here is The Crochet Skull of Dooooooooooom…

 

 
As you can see, it’s almost as big as Marmalade, our orange tabby. I still need to stitch up the nose, the teeth, and add a few more decorations, so this project is going to take a couple more days. But I’m hoping to have it finished by Tuesday night at the latest.

 

 
By the way, this is the usual scene when I crochet. One cat in my lap, one cat on the back of the couch, yarn everywhere. It’s very cozy.  And that skull is very cozy too, and cushy. I can’t wait until it’s done. I plan to cuddle up with that sucker and take a nice long nap. You can’t do that with a crystal skull! 

Inktober starts today. In case you don’t know what Inktober is, it’s a month-long challenge for artists to practice their inking skills by doing drawings either daily, every other day, or one a week.

I may consider doing Inktober this month, doing one drawing a month. Or I may not. I have a lot going on right now with Girl Scouts, and I’m working slowly but surely on setting up products to put in an Etsy shop.

However, there is one thing I am going to do this month – crochet. I started obsessively crocheting pumpkins at the beginning of September. It started when I found some scraps of orange yarn that I decided to use up, but then I started making bigger pumpkins, and you know, you can’t have pumpkins without candy corn, and of course, I love skulls so I had to make a couple of those as well, and the end result of all this is that my coffee table is now covered in crocheted pumpkins, candy corn and skulls.

So I decided to keep going. Having done a bunch of stuff in oranges and yellows, I decided to switch to darker colors. The result is a very gloomy set of candy corns, or as I call them, Gloomy Corns.

 

You can just see one of the regular candy corns peeking around in the background.

So I will see how far I can go with this. I have a few unfinished pieces from last month that need detailing, so those will be the next items you see. What I’m going to do with these at the end of October, I don’t know, but I’ll think of something!