Painting fun

 What do you do on a Saturday afternoon when you are 'bored' or at least not wanting to do what you have been doing all day? 

Well it appears I was in the mood to start painting. I had an urge to paint a witch and here is the result! 

I started by drawing a little character on the paper and then ... out came my watercolours. 

 

 I need to get a little better at drawing the outlines fainter... the more I got caught in the drawing the harder I drew. It's something I will have to work on. 

The hardest part with painting with watercolours I found was having to walk away and leave it to dry a few times before I tried to put other colours on the paper! It is so hard to do but here is one of the points where I knew I just had to walk away before I stuffed it up irreparably. 

I'm really proud of how she turned out. To the point where I then spent Saturday night playing with my cross stitch program and trying to turn her into a little cross stitch. I've got some more work to do and I want to play with the colours a LOT more. These are the colours the program gives me but I know they aren't right in real life.

 

 

I decided to keep the backstitching more subtle like the watercolour and used a grey instead of a black like I normally do. I will have to play with it a little more before it's ready but I'm hoping to have it good to go by October 1 in time for a special Halloween Stitch-a-long because who doesn't want a cute little witch to join them for halloween? 

 

 But to make this actually happen I have a bit of work to do :D I will start playing with colours and testing this out this week and we shall see if I can actually make it happen. Who would like to join me for a stitch-a-long? This will be a quick little stitch and I'm trying to think of a cute way to finish it that would look amazing decorating for halloween! 

Happy Stitching, 

Caitlin

 

Halloween Pattern Round-up

It's that time of the year that I need to showcase my cute Halloween patterns just to remind you that they exist.
I have three patterns currently that are directly Halloween themed and one that works for halloween if you cut out the words.

Lets start with the obvious ones. There is my Witches Brew pattern that is available from etsy.

Witches Brew

It comes with a special little freebie of the little witch as well. You get this when you buy the Witches Brew pattern.

Then there is another freebie. In 2014 about this time I posted this cute little Ghost.
You can find the pattern by following the link. I hope you enjoy this little gift.

The last pattern isn't a deliberate Halloween pattern but with a small tweak of leaving out the words this makes an awesome witch pattern. Actually probably looks more like a witch than a magician but I loved this saying and the drawing. So maybe not entirely Halloween themed but enjoy my Accountant witch :D

What do you think of this Halloween collection? Looking at it I'm realising that I have a severe deficiency and I may have to get designing!


I hope you enjoy these designs and I'd love to see some of your fun halloween makes so link them below please!

Happy Stitching,
Caitlin 

It's My Birthday!

Well not today ... on Wednesday but since I want to put up my normal WIP Wednesday post (I want that to become my new thing then at least you know when I'm definitely going to post.) I am going to celebrate my birthday on my blog today.

I was trying to think about what I could do, something special since I usually forget about it, and I looked through my patterns and came up with this.

I made it as a companion to my witch a couple of weeks back now but I never managed to get it over to my big computer so I could turn it into a PDF. So now using my little computer I turned it into a PNG and you all get to share in my awesome Ghost. (don't know how to post PDFs to share) You can buy the witch pattern from my etsy store.

So enjoy my birthday present to you :D You should be able to right click on the image and save it. Though please despite it being a free pattern don't share it around I would prefer it if you direct people to my blog instead.


So Happy stitching and if you complete my little guy please send me pictures I would love to see it.

Caitlin