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This is supposed to be a Halloween witch!

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Witzend Sat 28-Sept-24 11:57:27

Free pattern from Let’s Knit Together - if you subscribe, which I don’t.
I can’t think the Gdcs would be very impressed - apart from the pumpkin she looks more like an oddly coloured Little Red Riding Hood!

Nannan2 Sun 13-Oct-24 11:23:41

Oh was Winnie the one who wore high heeled shoes?Yes this could be easily be made with black wool instead, or even black hair- but could be given to little kids as a 'baby witch' or 'trainee witch' perhaps? Maybe that was the idea behind it?🤔

Nannan2 Sun 13-Oct-24 11:28:23

I will show this to my DD later, maybe she can adapt it to a crochet one and make it for the youngest nieces.She even writes her own crochet patterns.I cant pick up crochet at all, but i do knit.

Sarnia Sun 13-Oct-24 11:29:45

Today's little ones need a dose of Baba Yaga! For those who weren't read her blood curdling tales at bedtime, she was a witch in Russian folklore given to frying and eating small children with her iron teeth. Just the thing to send you off to a peaceful sleep. My book even had a picture of her as if my imagination didn't conjure up enough horrors.

loripol Sun 13-Oct-24 11:38:08

I think she's supposed to be a child trick-or-treater with a pumpkin shaped bucket for treats?
She's very cute!

win Sun 13-Oct-24 11:52:35

loripol

I think she's supposed to be a child trick-or-treater with a pumpkin shaped bucket for treats?
She's very cute!

Perfect description and probably correct too. She is adorable. I really should start knitting again, I love knitting but have not done any since 2014 when my late husband died. Difficult to sit and knit. I prefer to be busy or to be working on the Mac.

pascal30 Sun 13-Oct-24 11:58:00

much better to have a good witch.. she's very sweet

Witzend Sun 13-Oct-24 12:15:04

DeeDe

Don’t do Halloween…what’s fun about death ?
It’s totally sick! People are so easily brainwashed …

It’s not ‘sick’. As far as my Gdcs are concerned, it’s just a really fun day, when they dress up to go trick-or-treating and get sweets. They don’t connect it with death at all.

To DDs it was the same. Last year Gdd1 was appalled that some close friends weren’t allowed to go T-or-Ting - not because of any moral or religious objections, but because their mother couldn’t be bothered to help with dressing up, or provide sweets for other children.
Gdd1 said, ‘Not allowed!! When it’s the most exciting day in the whole entire year except for Christmas! 🎃

MissAdventure Sun 13-Oct-24 12:33:20

Sarnia

Today's little ones need a dose of Baba Yaga! For those who weren't read her blood curdling tales at bedtime, she was a witch in Russian folklore given to frying and eating small children with her iron teeth. Just the thing to send you off to a peaceful sleep. My book even had a picture of her as if my imagination didn't conjure up enough horrors.

Did she live, or fly in a pestle and mortar?

MissAdventure Sun 13-Oct-24 12:35:00

Perhaps she ground up the children in a pestle and mortar?

NannaFirework Sun 13-Oct-24 12:36:22

Wish I could knit - so cute! ❤️🧙🏻

albertina Sun 13-Oct-24 13:22:32

Older daughter fearless around all things Halloween, younger daughter terrified of everything so this would have been a useful little toy.

SGBoo Sun 13-Oct-24 13:22:43

Maybe a bit more witch like in black, but I think it's cute! Perhaps find a pattern for a cat, cauldron and broom stick too.

Peaches7 Sun 13-Oct-24 13:28:13

I think she is lovely

Milest0ne Sun 13-Oct-24 20:08:39

Maggiemaybe

I do too. Just right for a toddler before they get into the scary stuff.

The scary stuff should go back to America where it came from. Much more fun "snatch apple night" and "apple bobbing" that we had when I was a child grin

Witzend Mon 14-Oct-24 09:43:26

loripol

I think she's supposed to be a child trick-or-treater with a pumpkin shaped bucket for treats?
She's very cute!

The pattern does say she’s a Halloween witch!

Must say that even when much littler my Gdd1 would have scorned any witch outfit that wasn’t black! I had to make her one when she was 5 (nothing in the shops to buy in Oman) inc. the pointy hat and ‘brooming’ stick, as she called it. 🎃

NotSpaghetti Mon 14-Oct-24 10:14:06

This was the original cover of the book our youngest enjoyed Nannan2 - she does have small heels but also very big buckles.

NotSpaghetti Mon 14-Oct-24 10:16:56

DeeDe - I don't like "trick or treating" but the concept of dying and rising again, good triumphant over evil and acknowledgeing and overcoming darkness are not exactly new ideas!

TheWeirdo Mon 14-Oct-24 11:22:45

I can't stand Halloween but I think she's adorable!

ReadyMeals Mon 14-Oct-24 13:29:33

Witches are about herbs, healing and the strength and goodness of nature, and about not harming others. They're not evil. Even Halloween itself wasn't originally meant to be about evil and fear.

Sarnia Mon 14-Oct-24 13:33:56

MissAdventure

Sarnia

Today's little ones need a dose of Baba Yaga! For those who weren't read her blood curdling tales at bedtime, she was a witch in Russian folklore given to frying and eating small children with her iron teeth. Just the thing to send you off to a peaceful sleep. My book even had a picture of her as if my imagination didn't conjure up enough horrors.

Did she live, or fly in a pestle and mortar?

She did fly in a pestle and mortar! I'm so pleased someone else remembers her. Most people give me blank looks of I mention Baba Yaga. [grin}

GrannyIvy Mon 14-Oct-24 13:59:50

I don’t like Halloween either and definitely do not believe in trick or treating
That little witch is gorgeous don’t make it a scary one it’s lovely as it is

AreWeThereYet Mon 14-Oct-24 18:22:20

I think she's very, very cute and as others have said a changing the colours to darker ones could make her a 'wicked' witch.

I recently found my old witch's hat in the attic. It was made mainly of felt and cardboard and worn when we had our Halloween parties in the garden for the children (they never did trick-or-treating either). I remember dying a sheet black to make my dress and cloak (and wearing black thermals underneath - November is cold!). The party spread over three gardens and my neighbours dressed up too, as did all our children. Sadly 40 years later the hat is mouldy and the cardboard disintegrating 🥲

MugOfCoffee Tue 15-Oct-24 17:55:58

She looks sweet!

MissAdventure Tue 15-Oct-24 17:58:35

She must be a white witch. 🙂

Karen22 Tue 15-Oct-24 18:45:55

I don't believe in Halloween, why celebrate something that's so dark ? People think it's harmless and a bit of fun I totally disagree . We should be teaching our children the beauty of light and Jesus Christ