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Welcome Great Pumpkin, A Make-Along!

The season is turning, the temperature changing. The air is tainted slightly with smell of smoke and earth. Corn and berries abound, and fog slinks in with the night.


Welcome Great Pumpkin!

Halloween is coming up, which means that it’s still cool enough in my part of the world to be knitting larger-ish items, and it’s cooling off everywhere else. Autumn is my favourite time of year, and I truly miss the changing of the colours and the smell of spiced cider in the air. This year, even though I won’t be in a location to join in the proper worshipping of the Great Pumpkin with the requisite Corn Maze runs and bonfires, I thought I’d host a Make-Along to soothe my feelings of homesickness.

The Great Pumpkin Make-Along goes for the length of October in which fellow Fibre Fiends will make something in honour of the coming of the Great Pumpkin on the 31st. Make use of all that spooky movie time and work up that grimm project you’ve been hiding in the closet!

Additionally, each week there will be a chosen Stitch & Bitch Flick that I’ll be watching and tweeting/instagramming about while I stitch. Join me for all, some, or none. My plan is to wind my way through a variety of Halloween themed movies and tv shows from my past. (I’m not a fan of torture-porn style horror movies, and I’ve got a tween, so most flicks will be Youngling appropriate.)

Come join me for a spooktastic Make-Along in preparation for the rise of the Great Pumpkin!



 The Rules

  1. All Items MUST be cast-on on ON or AFTER 1 October 2018 (no WIPs please!)
  2. All items entered into the FO thread must have AT LEAST ONE of the following:
- Halloween themed pattern
- Halloween themed yarn (hand-dyed and hand-spun experiments do count)
- Halloween related story (i.e. you may choose to knit something inspired by an urban legend, a horror film, a scary tv show, spooky song, etc. If you choose this you must include either an explanation of how this FO relates to the theme, or a link to the movie/show/





How to Enter

  1. Make something that you can relate back to Halloween.
  2. Post a photo of the COMPLETED item in the FO thread on the SnarCraft Ravelry Group (what, you aren’t a member yet? Come join us!) and tell us why you chose this project for the MAL.

--------- You may enter more than one item, and you may enter your item EACH TIME you include one of the above. This means each entry has the potential of being counted three different times!
 (i.e. The Grey Lady’s Cloak in Voolenvine’s Weep colourway, this FO would be worth 2 entries). 

The FO thread will be opened 1 October 2018 at 10am GMT+11 (Sydney/Melbourne time) and  locked on 1 November 2018 at 10am GMT+11. I will draw a winner at that time and the Great Pumpkin will reward your efforts with something squee-worthy!

*****If you really want to impress the Great Pumpkin, then you may have an additional entry if your project matches with the Stitch n Bitch Flick of the week! (That makes for a total of FOUR potential entries for a project!)


For a bit of inspiration, in case you’re having trouble getting into the Great Pumpkin festivities…

Headless Roses Wrap by Barbara Benson

Source: Ravelry













The Grey Lady’s Cloak - Interweave's The Unofficial Harry Potter Knits
Source: Ravelry















Ghostly Sock Yarn bundle by Ash & Oak

Source: Ash & Oak Yarn




















Halloween Top Hat (crocheted) by  Sharon Mann
Source: Ravelry




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