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The Cute and the Gory

It’s almost Halloween, it’s stormy outside and I’m oh so excited. I’m sure it will come as no surprise at all to learn that I love Halloween and this year is special because it’s the first for several years that I’ve not had an important essay deadline too close to care about much than studying. Yay!

In highschool my friends all hung out at my friend Jamie’s house and his parents are pretty much our surrogate aunt and uncle. Their house is always decorated for each and every holiday and his mum is a knitter so these form the centrepiece of their Halloween mantelpiece. Aren’t they cute?

I think that they’re made from mostly garter stitch rectangles and the patterns are in a book. She’s promised to look it out so that I can post where they’re from, even if it’s a bit late for this year.

On Friday I went to see David Lynch talk (mostly about transcendental meditation) and then to a Halloween party, it was a most ridiculous night only partly because I was dressed like this all evening. 80s b movie zombie prom queen Ysolda! Of course.

My bathroom still looks a bit like a rather gruesome crime scene, but there really seemed no point in cleaning properly when I’m just going to do all the make up again tomorrow. Incidentally I made my own fake blood, based on a recipe I got from the fire brigade while making a gangster movie in high school, filming a scene that actually did involve turning a school bathroom into a crime scene. The main secret is cocoa powder, other than that it’s just water, a lot of red and a little bit of blue food colouring and maybe some cornflour, syrup, milk or gelatine (eww) to get the right consistency. It makes reasonably effective hair dye too, oops.
I have nothing new and exciting to share on the knitting front, but I just need to put the finishing touches to the Elijah pattern so if I’m not too busy mixing up fake blood it might go up tomorrow, soon anyway.

Posted: October 31st, 2007 under knitting.
Comments: 21

Comments

Comment from Sarahfish
Time: October 31, 2007, 2:28 am

Oh wow, you look fantastic! If only I thought I could get away with the fake blood at work tomorrow… ;)

I love the invisible man figure too. He’s great!

Comment from Danielle
Time: October 31, 2007, 2:51 am

The cute Halloween figures look like they come from Jean Greenhowe’s ‘Jiffy Knits’. http://www.jeangreenhowe.com/jiffyknits.html

Comment from liz
Time: October 31, 2007, 2:56 am

That’s really impressive fake blood! I have a strange interest in realistic fake blood - because while what you buy preprepared isn’t bad while it’s wet, it doesn’t dry correctly.

Ok…now I sound creepy.

Comment from theLady
Time: October 31, 2007, 3:11 am

Wow, you look insanely horrible. Great effects!

Comment from Chelsey
Time: October 31, 2007, 4:56 am

See, I intentionally dyed my hair for hallowe’en (using it as an excuse of course) and my bathroom is showing the proof.

Comment from Anna
Time: October 31, 2007, 8:50 am

You look fantastic as an 80’s b movie zombie prom queen!

And I love the knitted Halloween decorations!

Comment from maryse
Time: October 31, 2007, 12:05 pm

ooh you’re delightfully ghoulish.

Comment from alyssa
Time: October 31, 2007, 2:04 pm

Great costume. I’m not a big halloween person but I do love dressing up, I know its weird but I’m weird. Anyway…how was the David Lynch talk?? Man he scares me sometimes, it must have been very interesting.

Comment from carol
Time: October 31, 2007, 3:04 pm

eek! good and gory!

I’ve been working on Snow White for a few months now, and I just spent the night weaving in ends. on to blocking! thanks for the great design!

Comment from Jennifer
Time: October 31, 2007, 4:11 pm

Those decorations are great! We always used chocolate syrup in our blood for consistency as well as color.

Comment from Jennifer
Time: October 31, 2007, 4:43 pm

Cute decorations and your costume is Awesome! Great photo too!

Comment from Lin
Time: October 31, 2007, 5:39 pm

You look great! Thank you again for getting me some commenters! i donated £21.75. x

Comment from Sophia
Time: October 31, 2007, 6:59 pm

What a great costume! You could be in a movie!
and speaking of movies, I saw on the history channel that the fake blood in the movie Psycho was really Bosco Chocolate Syrup because it was the right consisitency… Of course that movie was black and white, so consisitency was the only consideration….I wonder if it could be coloured red?

Comment from Em
Time: October 31, 2007, 9:01 pm

I love that there are googley-eyes in the cauldron! That’s too cute. Thanks for sharing!

p.s. You make a great zombie! (yes, that’s a compliment!)

Comment from mary
Time: October 31, 2007, 11:30 pm

that’s such a great costume!
I wish I had had time to get one together this year, although I’ve never been brave enough to dress up as something gruesome.

Comment from Becky-Dee Trevenen
Time: November 1, 2007, 2:18 am

Awesome costume! too bad we don’t celebrate halloween in Australia. it sounds like fun!

Comment from Casey
Time: November 1, 2007, 3:32 am

Brilliant costume! I want to be a zombie one year; its a great excuse to be messy! lol.

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