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COMPILED BY
Margaret McGuire and Alicia Kachmar
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Contents
Introduction: What Lurks Within 7
Witchy Stitches: Sewing, Kitting, and Crocheting Basics 9
Black Cat Mary-Janes 11
Bewitching Fishnet Stockings 15
Bottled Potions 17
Candy Pumpkin Bowl (and/or Creepy Chips and Dip) 19
Cross-Stitch Witch 21
Crystal Ball 23
Bones 25
Boo! 27
Crocheted Caramel Apples and Candy Corn 29
Faux Puppy-Fur Coat (à la Cruella DeVille) 31
Fuzzy Bats 35
Halloween Cupcakes: Witches, Monsters, Spiders, and Ghosts 37
Good Little Witch 41
Lacy Black Gloves 45
Lovely Wicked Tutu 47
Marshmallow Ghosts and Peanut Butter & Jelly Skulls 49
Pumpkin Patch Pumpkin 51
Plushie Poison Apples 53
Poison Ivy Lip Embellishment 55
Ruby Slippers 57
Satin-Soft Black Cat Sleeping Mask 59
Sleeping Ghost Brooches 61
Spell-Book Necklaces 63
Spider Web Earrings 67
Spooky Lanterns 69
Tangerine Jack-o-Lanterns 71
Trick-or-Treat Garland 73
Vampire Bite Necklace 77
The Wicked Witch’s Gingerbread House 81
Wicked Charm Bracelet 83
Dark Arts & Crafts Shopping Guide 87
About the Witch Crafters 89
Metric Conversion Chart 95
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good little apple
spooky apple
bad apple
wicked poison apple
Plushie Poison Apples
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the wickedest of them
all? With a little crafting magic, this sweet plushie apple
turns rotten to the core!
by Jacki Gallagher of Plush Off
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Supplies
scissors
pins
filling
needle &
thread
12˝
red, green, brown,
white, and black
1. Trace the patterns onto felt (depending
on the apple you’re making), and cut out
the pieces. Stitch the face onto one of
the apple slices.
2. Stitch the outside seam of two apple
pieces together. Repeat so that you have
two sets of three pieces, making two
halves. Line them up so that the tops and
bottoms match and the outsides are all
facing inward.
3. Put the stem and leaf between the two
halves so that they’re inside the apple,
with just the bottom of the stem and leaf
poking out. Pin in place. Stitch around
the sides of the two halves, leaving a 1inch gap at the bottom. Flip it through
the gap to make a round apple body, with
the leaf and stem sticking out the top.
(optional)
4. Fill with stuffing and stitch the gap
closed. If you’re making a half-poisoned
bad apple, cut a piece of black felt in a
wavy circle and stitch it on. Add extra
black spots for a very bad little apple.
Trace the apple-slice pattern
(page 6) onto red felt to make a
good little apple, a spooky apple,
or a half-poisoned bad apple.
Then trace it onto black felt
to make a truly wicked
poison apple!
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EYEBROW
(FOR BAD APPLE)
cut 2 out of black or
brown felt
EYEBALL
cut 2 out
of white felt
IRIS
cut 2 out
of black felt
LEAF
cut 1 out of
green felt
APPLE SLICE
cut 6 out of red felt
or cut 6 out of black felt
STEM
cut 1 out
of brown felt
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Magical Catnapping Mask
So satiny soft, you’ll wake from a catnap feeling like
you’ve slept for a hundred years!
By Naomi Matsuda of Naomi Lingerie
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Supplies
6˝ x 8˝
1 piece satin
1 piece fleece
elastic
1. Cut out fabric to match patterns (page 9).
2. Using a 1⁄4 -inch seam allowance, join the
two backside satin pieces with a middle
seam, leaving a 1⁄2 -inch gap at the top and
bottom. Press the seam open.
3. Cut a 2-inch-long rectangle out of the
center of the fleece to match the back
satin piece. Pin elastic onto the edges of
the reverse of the front satin piece. Line
Sleeping-beauty bows are a dream to
make out of any two pieces of ribbon,
tulle, or lace.
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(optional)
up the back and front satins, right-side in.
Put fleece on top of the back-side satin.
4. Pull elastic through the hole and pin in
the middle of fabric so it won’t get caught
when you sew around the edge of the
mask. Pin all 3 layers together. Sew all
the around edge with a 1⁄4 -inch seam allowance. Turn right-side out through the
gap and then sew closed.
5. Stitch down the middle of the tulle,
pulling the thread tightly to create a bow
shape. Repeat with the ribbon. Attach the
tulle bow to the ribbon bow with a few
stitches. Sew the bow onto the right side
of the mask near the cat ear. Zzz!
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BLACK LINE:
cut 1 out of satin (front) and 1 out of fleece
BLUE DOTTED LINE:
cut 2 out of satin (reverse)
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Marshmallow Skulls
Chocolate frosting turns marshmallows into spooky
skulls in minutes! Perfect for topping hot cocoa on
chilly autumn nights.
By Maki Ogawa
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About the Witch Crafters
Jacki Gallagher
Naomi Matsuda
Plush Off
Plushoff.com
Kamloops, British
Columbia, Canada
Naomi Lingerie
Naomilingerie.etsy.com
and Naomilingerie.
blogspot.com
Melbourne, Australia
H
andmade crafts are the perfect
thing to do alone, with family, or
with friends on a cool, crisp autumn day. I love scary movies; every October
I watch the creepiest, goriest movies I can
find. And I am all about Wicked: the book,
the musical, the music! But I’m not a night
owl—I am very much a day creeper. I have a
three-year-old autistic son who thinks I
should wake up every morning, and so I do.
Thankfully he loves sleep, too, and rarely
wakes before nine. We play, we read, and we
cut and sew throughout the day.
If my son wakes up and asks to make
an apple tree, well, that’s what we do. If my
friends are looking high and low for obscure
pink things, I make a piece of pink toast.
Mealtimes are a big inspiration to me. I always have a notepad so I can jot down ideas
wherever I am, whether it’s my backyard or
the grocery store. I enjoy working with colorful felt because it’s so moldable and pliable.
My creations can be found at a few little
boutiques in Canada, on Etsy, and at
Plushoff.com, where I sell whimsical, cute
plushies for the young and the young at
heart.
W
hen I was a little girl growing up
in Japan, I wanted to be a witch,
just like the popular Japanese
cartoon Sally the Witch. But I grew up to be
a fashion designer instead. After seven years
in the Tokyo women’s wear industry, I got
sick of all the copy-cat designs and mass
production. So I started my own little online
shop, Naomi Lingerie, where I sell cozy,
pretty handmade delicates. Each item feels
special, like it’s made for a friend.
My favorite materials are chiffon, organdy, satin, tulle, and lace. I find inspiration
in travel and in beautiful things—especially
antiques, vintage fashion, and kimonos. I
adore film director Sophia Coppola’s girlish
style. I’ve always liked fantasy stories like
The Lord of the Rings much more than ghost
stories; Japanese ghost stories and horror
movies are particularly scary. (I think I believe in them a little bit; that’s why I’m
afraid!) Usually Japanese don’t celebrate
Halloween. But sometimes I like to wear a
pretty outfit to celebrate. When we were
teenagers, my friends and I had fun making
Tinker Bell costumes. This year I want to be
Cat Woman!
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Magically craft a
pair of Mary-Janes
into zombie kitteh
slippers.
Strawberry jam, buns, and
a bit of chocolate frosting
can turn regular peanut
butter & jelly sandwiches
into freaky skulls.
Capture your beloved’s
heart with shimmery
pink Love Potion
bottled and worn
around your neck.
CRAFT
6 x 8½ in, 96 pp., 4c hardcover
• Co-op available
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ISBN 978-1-59474-486-0
$14.95 U.S./£9.99 UK
October 2010
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