{"id":24690,"date":"2012-10-19T05:57:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T09:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=24690"},"modified":"2012-11-06T16:46:07","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T21:46:07","slug":"candy-corn-halloween-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/19\/candy-corn-halloween-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Candy Corn & Halloween Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There are sooooo many adorable Halloween applique’ designs for machine embroidery!\u00c2\u00a0 For granddaughter Laurel’s outfit, I finally narrowed the field down to this candy corn design, primarily because I had already purchased the spider web\/candy corn fabric for fun.\u00c2\u00a0 This design just seemed right.\u00c2\u00a0 Candy Corn Cutie is from Embroitique.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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The girls A-line jumper in\u00c2\u00a0 Applique’, Martha’s Favorites<\/em> by Martha Pullen’s has always been one of my favorites.\u00c2\u00a0 I bemoaned the fact that it went only to size 6 when it occurred to me that I could use the same quick and easy lining technique with any similar pattern.\u00c2\u00a0 I found just what I needed with a commercial pattern (on sale at JoAnn’s for $1.99!) and whipped up this piece for Laurel in no time.<\/p>\n

It is lined with yellow cotton batiste because 1. I had it on hand and 2. because it is a relatively cool, lightweight fabric. \u00c2\u00a0 In Florida, Halloween season can be and usually is very hot.\u00c2\u00a0 Top stitching is worked around the hem, neckline and armscyes.\u00c2\u00a0 At the them, three rows of ribbon echo the white, yellow, and orange layers on the candy corn.<\/p>\n

The leggings with a knit ruffle at the ankle are from Sophie’s Stitches.<\/p>\n

NANA FUN<\/strong>—Our daughter, Rebecca, came for a few days with her husband and 3 year-old Alastair.\u00c2\u00a0 We had so much Halloween fun with the little guy.\u00c2\u00a0 Every year Granddad (Bob) decorates his shed which is the background for the bonfires the children love so much.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Often, they pause from running around or eating s’mores to climb up on his John Deer tractor housed in the shed, or pretend to drive the golf cart which also resides in this man cave.<\/p>\n

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It was late, so Alastair was in his jammies.<\/p><\/div>\n

Sadly, cousins Robert and Laurel were tied up with football practice, piano lessons and Girl Scouts so they couldn’t make it over while Alastair was here.\u00c2\u00a0 But 4 year-old Alysha<\/a>, our goddaughter’s child,\u00c2\u00a0 came for the bonfire and a day of fun.<\/p>\n

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Alastair looks at the obedient spider by the spooky ghost arm.<\/p><\/div>\n

We roasted marshmallows for s’mores and the children eventually overcame their fear of the 7′ blow -up ghost.\u00c2\u00a0 But they were completely at ease with the spider.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Any loud noise initializes its movement up and down the web.\u00c2\u00a0 They loved clapping their hands and calling “Come down here!” and watching the spider creep down the web.\u00c2\u00a0 Just before it reached the end of its run, they shouted, “Get back up there!”\u00c2\u00a0 and the spider obliged.\u00c2\u00a0 It was fun.<\/p>\n

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Alysha joined us the next day for a play date to hang out and decorate cupcakes.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, that also meant eating cupcakes.<\/p>\n

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Independently, both Alysha and Alastair developed a decorate-a-cupcake, eat-a-cupcake system.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Alysha hadn’t been to our house for some time, so she looked things over pretty carefully when she arrived.<\/p>\n

She came through the front door, looked to the right through the living room to the closed sewing room door, to the left to the open door to my study.\u00c2\u00a0 She noted the French door to the dining room and the matching French door to the back porch.\u00c2\u00a0 After making these observations, she announced very seriously, “Your house is very door-ish.”<\/p>\n

Kids are so cute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are sooooo many adorable Halloween applique’ designs for machine embroidery!\u00c2\u00a0 For granddaughter Laurel’s outfit, I finally narrowed the field down to this candy corn design, primarily because I had already purchased the spider web\/candy corn fabric for fun.\u00c2\u00a0 This … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,43,18,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24690"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24690"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24713,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24690\/revisions\/24713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}