The Mysterious Halloween Town!
It's Mysterious Halloween Town Club Time!
Thank you all so much for saying YAY to more sneak peeks! Today I thought I'd share with you just a tiny bit of my Mysterious Halloween Town!
If you maybe don't know me or have never visited my blog, you may not know about my obsession with Halloween. I *love* it. I start decorating in August around my birthday. I've made 5? 6? Halloween quilts, ignoring the fact that it's too hot here for quilts in October. I got married on October 30th. I think it's pretty much the best holiday. Also: candy.
Last year we launched a super pretty and super special pattern, Halloween Spooky Sampler! Ashleigh & I were very nervous, it was our first time designing a pattern that used both hand dyed floss and hand dyed fabric. Plus it had that big lace-y border! But it turned out you guys REALLY liked it, it's one of our best selling patterns. I'm glad you like Halloween as much as we do! Seriously.
We listened to your feedback, we always do! You wanted more time before the holiday to work on your project and you wanted colors with more variegation.
While Ashleigh & I can't control each individual skein of floss (remember- they are hand dyed, making each skein unique which is super cool!), we did pick colors that are very, very, variegated. And we decided to start the club in June with four monthly installments released around two weeks after Once Upon a Time so if you want to make both projects, it's totally achievable! It also gives everyone over a month to source supplies, including our international friends! The timing is also so if you are like us and want to work on your project leading up to Halloween, the last PDF goes out in mid-September! We also decided instead of sending monthly emails that occasionally get caught in spam, we now provide a direct link for you to access your pattern each month in the introductory PDF. I *wish* we could work out something like ravelry's pattern delivery system for the future but we are trying this for this pattern and we'll see how it goes!
The colors are *super* unique in this pattern and we wanted to make that clear from the very beginning. Bubblegum pink! Lavender! Moldy and acid-y greens! Lots of black! It's a very bold palette of colors and super fun to stitch with. We are also using two brands of hand dyed embroidery floss, both Weeks Dye Works and The Gentle Art. If hand dyed floss isn't your thing, the pattern does include the DMC/COSMO conversions but keep in mind that your project won't look the same as the sample! The fabric we picked is a new Picture This Plus color called Wren! We are using it in the Crystal Cashel base which means it has opalescent thread woven in it. Opalescent = Sparkles!!! It's a very pretty warm gray that white looks really neat against.
Sooooo what will you be stitching? Oh just the cutest Halloween Town EVER! It's 11.4 inches long and 5.2 inches tall, so a long landscape! It has two buildings including...a BAKERY. And it has some trick or treaters- including Frankenstein that I'm sharing a photo of! See how neat that floss looks? His hair is Carriage Black and it looks so cool! The little owl was my favorite part to work on, he's stitched in Bubblegum & Lavender Potpourri, it was kind of tricky to take a photo of but one of his ears has two very dark purple stitches that I *love*. It has a few little Quaker elements, a lot of Kawaii elements and basically...it's adorable!
And I'm still stitching my personal project! I'll try and sneak in more photos but I don't want to spoil it too much for anyone, I know a lot of you like the mystery and guard it fiercely!
In addition to stitching, I'm also in the process of re-reading The Mortal Instruments series because City of Heavenly Fire comes out later this month! eep! eep! I'm both excited and nervous to read it but I'm sure I'll share those thoughts with you later on!
I hope you liked these peeks of Mysterious Halloween Town Club and have a good Friday!
PS: It's 90 degrees out and all I can think about while stitching a Halloween pattern is having a hot chai latte! lol!