Making Halloween shirts is just plain fun.  I have little enthusiasm  for  costume making, but a quickie shirt makes the grandchildren as happy as if I had whipped up Spiderman or Cinderella.
Amy Spriggs made the little white cutie on the left, along with the spooky hair bow.   She used the Bouh Bouh font in BabyLock’s Masterworks, CustomWorks and LetterWorks.
I’ve used the same font on a onesie for 18 month old Alastair. His name is longer than Ashlyn’s and his shirt is smaller, so the ghosts were flocked together more closely. The Happy Halloween text is from Babylock’s Halloween collection. It comes with a sassy little spider hanging off the bottom of the “y” in Happy, but with all those ghost it just seemed like overkill. So I left it out.
This past week I spent several days caring for Alastair while his mother worked extra days on a big project for her computer company. I had a wonderful time with him, but I am exhausted. I’ve never doubted the wisdom of God, but I applaud his decision to give babies only to young women (except, of course, for Biblical Sarah).
Everyone, it seems has new Halloween designs this fall. There are a lots of free ones, notably Buzztools which has a group of designs including jack-o-lanterns, a bat, ghost and more. Check them out here .
ABC Machine Embroidery designs has a cute applique’ ghost carrying a jack-o-lantern. This would be cute with a tulle or netting overlay.
There are 216 free embroidery designs with a variety of subjects, offerred by a variety of top notch digitizers. Included in that assortment is a witch’s hat.  There are so many lovely free designs at this site.
If you have no children or grandchildren to sew for, surely there is a youngster in your neighborhood or church who would enjoy being singled out for some special attention. Whip up a little Halloween fun.
