Heart Dishcloth

I started knitting this heart with wings dishcloth on July 1st, but put it down after only a few rows.  I picked back up the other day and finished it last night.  Here is the free pattern for it.

Halloween Swap Package to Gekko

Here is the package that I sent to Gekko in Australia for Halloween.  I also included a Kool Aid juice pouch notebook, which isn't pictured here.  The small goodies are a stamp, a pencil, 2 spider rings, a parachuting black cat, and some Peanuts Gang activity pages.

Gekko was one of my Halloween ornament swap partners.  For her main ornament I made her this black cat.  It is a super easy pattern to make.  I made a different main ornament for each person according to what they said that they liked.  All of them liked witches.  Gekko liked black cats.

I also made her a cork witch as well. 

And this wreath ornament.  It was crochet around a plastic bottle ring.  You can find directions for this in any of my other blog posts about Halloween swap packages that I made.

Here are the 4 magnets that I sent out to my partners.  They are just pre-painted wooden pieces that I glued a magnet to.

I put a few of the small items inside of some of these toilet paper tube "pillow favors." 

Here are the 4 cards that I mailed to my 4 partners.  I just put some fun Halloween stickers on the folded card stock.

I hope that Gekko liked them, and I hope that she got them by now.

Halloween Swap Gifts for ElsieB

The 2nd of my 3 Halloween ornament swap partners received her package from me recently.  Inside was a witch's hat ornament, a wreath ornament, a cork witch, 2 toilet paper treat containers, a wooden Halloween magnet, some Peanuts Gang activity pages, 2 spider rings, a parachute black cat, a Halloween pencil, and a card.  There was a last minute addition of a juice pouch notebook as well.

Here is the free pattern for this witch's hat ornament by Lion Brand.

This wreath ornament was made by crocheting around a plastic bottle ring.

The pattern for this ornament is:

- Chain 20 stitches.

- Take a plastic bottle ring and half double crochet around it.

- Join with a slip stitch.

- Triple crochet twice in every stitch around, and join with a slip stitch.

- Chain 15 to 20 stitches, and tie to the other chain length.

- Then just add accessories.

These cork witches were based off of this  Korknisse pattern.  I just modified the pattern slightly.

Here is my video tutorial on how to make these toilet paper tube treat containers.  I put all of the smaller items in these containers.

I enjoyed making these items and I hope that ElsieB enjoys them.