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Halloween

Category: <span>Halloween</span>

A handmade Halloween makes memories that are a real treat – and DIY projects are for everyone! Make costumes, crafts and decorations (both outdoors and indoors) just as scary (or not) as you want. Last minute? No problem! If you are a keep-it-simple kind of holiday decorator, choose easy homemade ideas for costumes and decorations.

So cast your spell and make your Halloween costumes, house and yard your way! Browse our ideas for some creative fun.

Halloween Decorating

Crazy Embroidered Pumpkin Glamor Shot

Make a Crazy Quilted Pumpkin

When asked to “decorate an art pumpkin” for a local arts alliance exhibit, what’s a fiber artist to do? Add the personal challenge of using materials already in my studio....

Trick or treat creepy cross-stitch

Spotlight: Lindsay Swearingen, Embroidery Artist

Describing her work as whimsical dark humor, embroidery artist and designer Lindsay Swearingen takes cross stitch to a level beyond traditional schoolchild samplers. Designed and stitched with as much precision...

Halloween graveyard fence and headstones

How to Make a Halloween Graveyard

Halloween graveyard fencing and gravestones are so easy to build, you don't need to spend a lot of money at the local Halloween stores. Make them yourself in a little...

DIY Trick or Treat

Finished fabric trick or treat bowl

Fabric Trick or Treat Bowl

This Fabric Trick or Treat Bowl is fun to make from clothesline and fabric strips. I joined the coils with a simple zigzag stitch on my sewing machine. My open...

Monster trick or treat bag finished 1

How to Make a Trick or Treat Bag

There are SO many fun things to make for Halloween!!! Why not make a special Halloween bag that makes it clear whose treats are whose! The plastic pumpkins are cute...

Dreaming of Thanksgiving leftovers

How to Make a Dog Bandana

I love my dog bandanas! My owner and a I walk every day and people always make comments about my holiday and seasonal bandanas! Here is how to make a...

More Halloween

Monster trick or treat bag finished 1

How to Make a Trick or Treat Bag

There are SO many fun things to make for Halloween!!! Why not make a special Halloween bag that makes it clear whose treats are whose! The plastic pumpkins are cute…
Trick or treat creepy cross-stitch

Spotlight: Lindsay Swearingen, Embroidery Artist

Describing her work as whimsical dark humor, embroidery artist and designer Lindsay Swearingen takes cross stitch to a level beyond traditional schoolchild samplers. Designed and stitched with as much precision…
Dreaming of Thanksgiving leftovers

How to Make a Dog Bandana

I love my dog bandanas! My owner and a I walk every day and people always make comments about my holiday and seasonal bandanas! Here is how to make a…
Crazy Embroidered Pumpkin Glamor Shot

Make a Crazy Quilted Pumpkin

When asked to “decorate an art pumpkin” for a local arts alliance exhibit, what’s a fiber artist to do? Add the personal challenge of using materials already in my studio.…
Sugar Skull Embroidery on quilt block

Sugar Skull Embroidery

Handmade items are an important part of Day of the Dead festivities - sugar skulls are the most recognizable. Make decorations for your Dios de los Muertos.
Repin the mask to cut out the eyes

Batman Mask for Toddler (or Batgirl or Batwoman Mask)

A friend requested I make her 3-year-old son a Batman mask because "he's been trying to turn everything into a Batman mask." Template from Cutesy Crafts.
Finished fabric trick or treat bowl

Fabric Trick or Treat Bowl

This bowl was fun to make from clothesline and fabric strips with a simple zigzag stitch on my sewing machine. 1/2 yard each of three different cotton prints.
Easy Festive Fall Decor

Easy Festive Fall Decor

Quick decor! Arrange a straw bale, pumpkins, cornstalks and a pretty potted mum to transform a plain porch into an inviting autumn and Halloween outdoor room.
reggae skull

Reggae Skull

Sometimes these things just sort of happen. You find a fake skull with articulating jaw and have a fake boar tongue from a taxidermy form. Then you pull out some…

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