Well, I’m almost done with my seekrit quilt, which will probably be revealed in the next couple weeks once I get the go-ahead from the pattern designer. In the mean time, Jett is acting as my censor.
I’ve also been cutting for a NEW mystery project (same pattern designer), and another Mystery project, courtesy of Sandy’s guildmate, which is called Scrapitude. And after I do the test pattern for this next quilt, I’ll work on my Dresden Plates and a test bag.
In other crafty news, I finished the first class pumpkin for my kids’ school auction! Each class gets a sucker volunteer to decorate a fauxkin. This particular one is for my daughter’s 2nd grade class. For those lucky enough to have no idea what this it, it’s a Creeper from Minecraft.
For reference, here’s what the Creeper looks like in the game. Basically, I painted a lot of green squares to mimic the 8-bit graphics. I had tried to use a template for the squares, but pumpkins are not exactly flat so I ended up free-handing the squares. The eyes and mouth are backed by an old piece of x-ray film (a chest x-ray, if you care - good news! I didn’t have pneumonia!), and there’s a flickery LED candle inside. As I told the teacher this morning when I took it to the classroom, a pumpkin needs a light inside it to be a jack-o-lantern, otherwise, it’s just a gourd.
You had me laughing at “just a gourd”. I am going to ask you to test a pattern when I design one. Fair warning.
That pumpkin is awesome! You continue to shame the rest of us slacker moms.
I have a 10 year old boy, so I have NO IDEA what that pumpkin might be - NOT!! These kids are obsessed with Minecraft so I bet your pumpkin will be a huge HIT. Very creative of you.
p.s. I joined Twitter but need to figure out how the twilter thing works. Maybe someone could give us a Twilter Twitter 101 class.
LOL! Just a Gourd! So cool. I never would of thought on doing something like this.
Oh goodness, my son’s little 10 year old head would explode if he saw that pumpkin!
Your Creeper pumpkin is brilliant. So so clever.
Very nice! I think I might know a few folks that would like the creeper quite a bit!
Love the pumpkin. I showed the picture to my husband and younger son. Their responses: DH: Cool, do you see skeletons when it’s lit up? DS2: Sweet! Is that a watermelon?
Lovely pumpkin idea, I’ve never seen anything like that! What did you use to color? Paint or something else?
P.S. Jett is such a good seekrit keeper! :)))