Halloween ideas?

I love it Namsnanny ??

Namsnanny that is beautiful. Well done

Write a little note, put in bags and place in the community as RAOCK.

Namsnanny That is a work of art!

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This is where I've got so far
Nothing is permanently attached as I havent started the mouse yet

I’ve put my Autumn wreath on the front door and added little (plastic) pumpkins and other bits - all 3 years old now and still going strong. However, as I live where it’s very quiet, there’s been neither sight nor sound of Halloween for 20 years.
Where DD1 lives, just outside Newcastle, it was lovely to walk around her estate last year and see all the little ones and their parents out. Most in costume, the children were encouraged to knock at doors with Halloween decorations or a basket of sweets on the doorstep to help themselves. Lots of householders answered the doors in fancy dress and many houses had giant inflatables on balconies and at ground level. All harmless fun, enjoyed by many.
The ?wreath won’t go up until mid December.

I've planted a beautiful Physalis and bought some little pumpkins to put on the doorstep .

There's a huge climber outside - a hydrangea petiolaris .
I decorate it at Christmas with huge baubles , at Easter with eggs in pastels and for Hallowe'en with giant bows .
Sometimes purple and /or black .
This year it's some incredibly beautiful deep orange printed wired ribbon from the wholesalers , which a florist friend uses .

It's an incredibly simple idea , but I think that it has impact .

Great Witzend and bravo.

Sadly not the case for most people.

Fleurpepper

Enjoy it.

But I must say, that is the one celebration in the year I just can't stand. Commercial and straight out of the USA. Hate it. The waste of all those costumes and decorations is massive- and most into landfill. Sad.

They’re not all wasted - dd has always got Gdcs’ from charity shops and passes any outgrown ones on. It’s normal among her circle. And any decorations - plastic tat or not - are used again each year.

Namsnanny

Funnily I've sent for a pattern of a hedgehog and a mouse Yammy.
I think a mouse scampering through a pile of pumpkins would be gorgeous!
I wonder if I could make one pumpkin look as if it had been partially chewed by him?
Dont know but it's worth a try
Thank you?

I think your work is lovely and so skillfully. To make a hole how about a few lines in different coloured wool. Or a cast-on-and-off hole with some kapock poking through.
I often have ideas but not the skill to carry them through. Show us a picture of what you do will you please?
The Scots took Halloween to the USA they just took it too far and commercialized its usual.

Please put a pic on when you've finished it. Are you putting a mouse on with the pumpkins? It's almost like a harvest wreath. Then a big spider hanging off would make it Halloween too

I have done the circle for the wreath, will add bits

Celebrating Halloween has been around in Scotland for a very long time. It isn't an import from USA and it isn't sad. Dressing up is known as 'guising'. I think your decorations look fantastic.

Namsnanny, where did you find the pattern for your pumpkin, please?
And Fleurpepper, I don't do Halloween either- I just do autumn .

Enjoy it.

But I must say, that is the one celebration in the year I just can't stand. Commercial and straight out of the USA. Hate it. The waste of all those costumes and decorations is massive- and most into landfill. Sad.

What I did once for a Halloween wreath for Gdcs, was make a big black spider (IIRC I found pattern on Lovecrafts) for the middle, and then attached him via a ‘web’ made from silvery yarn. Worked quite well - legs were made from pipe cleaners, supposedly covered with some technique I couldn’t get the hang of at all (can’t remember what it’s called but too fiddly for me) so just knitted long strips instead, i.e. cast on a lot, one row, cast off.

Thanks beechnut they turned out better than even I imagined they would.
Yes, so many good ideas, I'm hard pressed to settle on one now, I want to do all of them!

NamsNanny Brings back a few memories for me too - not always good ones

I saw a wreath on a door this morning which is what made me think of it - it was just beautiful autumn leaves. Whether they were fake or real I've no idea, we whizzed past in the car before I had a chance to investigate

Thanks witzend for the pattern link, and the appreciation.
Especially as I know how accomplished a knitter you are ?(why are there no knitting needles emoji? I see there is one for sword fencing?)

These are great Namsnanny, and I like all the ideas too.

Funnily I've sent for a pattern of a hedgehog and a mouse Yammy.
I think a mouse scampering through a pile of pumpkins would be gorgeous!
I wonder if I could make one pumpkin look as if it had been partially chewed by him?
Dont know but it's worth a try
Thank you?

Crochet a string and make a swag from them.I saw them on an American site hanging at different heights I bit like we would bells at christmas. Ir some were piled up with a knitted mouse.in a basket.

They’re lovely - they’d make a brilliant wreath!

In case you’d like one, this wreath pattern (knitted) is quite quick and easy - I’ve used the basic wreath for my own Christmas and Halloween ideas. (Not keen on those added bits!). It’s made with double DK on nice fat needles.

www.lovecrafts.com/en-gb/p/christmas-wreath-knitting-pattern-by-phoenixknits

I can imagine that would look brilliant in a window Mapleleaf again with some twinkly lights through it.
Thanks ?

You could hang some from a painted twig, interspersed with some of that cotton thread stuff that looks like cobwebs and maybe a pretend spider or two if you don’t have arachnophobia.