A Little Halloween, A Little Christmas Festival

I will start with the Halloween things since I got some pretty nice shots of the kiddos in their costumes.  Such fun, and they all looked so nice.

Luke Skywalker (Joey) and Batman (Jackson).

Princess Leah (Lexi) with a sweet witch (Zoe).

Luke Skywalker with his sister, Leah.

The not so sweet witch with the super hero Batman.  Maybe Batman will have to save the world from the evil witch.

Luke, Leah, evil witch, and Batman ready for trick-or-treat.

With Halloween out of the way, I turned my attention to projects for the Christmas festival that will be on Dec. 5th.  I have decided to have a booth at the festival and I had nothing to put up for sale, so I have been working around the clock in every spare moment I have to finish some products.  Here are my accomplishments so far.

My sweet little Annie makes the cutest cow on the planet Earth. She loved smiling for me, but it was very difficult to get her to stay still and keep the hat on long enough to take her picture.  This is the best one I could get.

These are the hats that could go as a set with the accompanying toy.  I had patterns for the hats and the toys, although they were from totally different pattern books.  They looked so similar that I thought it might make a good combination.  The hats can sell separately from the toys, or they can go as a set.

I do have a cat pattern for a toy also, but I may not get time to make it to go with the cat hat.  I do not have a pattern for a knitted cow, but I do have a pattern for a cloth toy.  I may also make one of those later if I get time.

These are the two lady or older girl hats. The purple one is called a cam and just sits on the top of the head like a barrette. If this one does not sell, my granddaughter, Dot, wants it.  That is good because it is made from the same yarn that I used to make her Christmas sweater.  The gray hat is like the one that I made for me last year and so many people liked it that they had me make them one.  All of these hats, except for mine, are made from this same dark gray yarn.  The picture doesn't show the cable stitching too well.  Someone has already seen this hat and wants to buy it.

I think I really need to retake this picture.  These are my men hats.  The one on the left is just a ribbed hat that sits just over the ears.  The one on the right is a slouchy but it is hard to see it in this picture.

Some more toys that do not have matching hats.  This is the adorable little skunk wearing a flower to sweeten her smell.

This just shows the skunk from the back view so that you can see the flower better and also the stripe.

This nutty little squirrel comes with a winter hat to keep him warm.

View of the squirrel without the hat.

Side view of the squirrel so that you can see his tail.

2-year-old boy's hooded sweater zippers up the front.

12-18 month old cabled hoodie.

I am going to make some Christmas hats next.  If I get time, I would like to make some more men's hats and possibly some more animal hat, toy combinations.  I plan to also make some Christmas decorations out of plastic canvas.  I have not done that for quite a while and I think it would be fun to do for a change.  I may also make some of my cloth toys on the sewing machine.  We will see.  That might be too ambitious.