You can do it – Here's how!
Category: Holidays
Pour ¼ cup of Clear Corn Syrup into a shallow bowl.Add a few drops of red food coloring and mix until the syrup has a bright red color.Using a clear glass tumbler dip the rim in the syrup mixture and set the glass on wax paper and allow to dry overnight. The syrup will drip down the glass creating the desired “dripping blood” effect. Fill with your favorite cocktails and make mocktails for the kids. great idea via
Used stitches:
Slip stitch (ST)
Half double crochet (HDC)
Double crochet (DC)
You need:
Orange yarn
Green or brown yarn
Matching crochet hook
Filling
Stitch marker or safety pin
(I used Rico Creative Cotton and a 4 mm hook)
Before you start: place your marker in the first stitch of every tour, this will save you loads of trouble (trust me!)
Pumpkin
In orange:
Round 1. Create a ‘magic circle’ or chain 2 and work in the second stitch from the hook. 8 SC in the ring.
Round 2. *1 SC in the sc of the last round and 2 SC in the next*, repeat till the end of the round (12 SC)
Round 3. *1 SC in the sc of the last round and 2 SC in the next*, repeat till the end of the round (18 SC)
Round 4. *1 SC in the two SCs of the last tour and 2 SCs in the 3rd *, repeat till the end of the round (24 SC)
Round 5. *1 SC in the next 2 SCs of the last tour and 2 SCs in the 3rd*, repeat until end of the round (32 SC)
Round 6. *1 SC in the next 3 SCs of last round and 2 SC in the 4th*, repeat until round (40 SC)
Round 7 and 8. 1 SC in every SC of last tour (40 SC)
Round 9. *1 SC in the next 3 SCs of last tour and SC 4th and 5th together (decrease)*, repeat until the end of the round (32 SC)
Round 10. *1 SC in the next 2 SCs of the last round and SC the 3rd and 4th together (decrease)*, repeat until end of round (24 SC)
Round 11. *1 SC in the next 2 SCs of last tour and SC the 3rd and 4th together*, repeat until the end of the round (18 SC)
Round 12. *1 SC in the first SC and SC the 2nd and 3rd together*, repeat until the end of the tour (12 SC)
Start filling your pumpkin!
Round 13. *1 SC in the first SC and SC the 2nd en 3rd together*, repeat till the end of the round (8 SC)
The pumpkin is now almost closed. Keep decreasing until it’s entirely closed. Finish and leave a long piece of thread at the end. Pull this thread 6 or 8 times through the heart of the pumpkin. Make it nice and tight to create that real pumpking ‘effect’.
If you’d like a bigger pumpkin, just keep increasing after round 6 untill you think your pumpkin is big enough.
Leaves
With green or brown
Chain 7
SC in the 2nd chain from the hook. Then: 2 SC, 2 DC, 1 HDC and 2 SC. On the other side of the chain you hook: 2 SC, 1 HDC, 2 DC en 2 SC.
Finish one of the two threads on each leaf and use the other thread to attach the leaves to the pumpkin. I made two leaves, but if you’ve made a bigger pumpkin you can of course make more leaves.
Supplies:
Directions:
Spray paint the bottles. Whey dry secure them together. Secure the strapping to fit the child over the shoulders and under the arms. Add paper flames out bottoms of bottles.
This is SO cute!!! via
1. Mix both ingredients in a glass jar. Seal tightly and let rest in a cool dark cupboard for 5 days.
2. Give the jar a shake and strain through a paper towel. Store in the jar in the freezer.
Holding vampire teeth closed, trace a line around them onto the pumpkin. Use a pumpkin saw to remove the area and enough of the inside for teeth to sit like in picture. Trim 2 red pushpins. Stick them in for eyes.
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