Friday Update October 22nd

Halloween Coming Close

Halloween is inching closer and closer! 👻🎃

Not only am I stitching in season, I'm also getting my TV / podcast viewing arranged in a seasonal manner as well. Recently, I checked out Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as an audiobook from my local library. Sufficiently spooky, I think. Will most likely listen to it as I stitch :)

On the TV front, I'm trying to remember which Poirot, Miss Marple, and other detective stories are freaky, scary, or even a Halloween special.

At the grocery store the other day, I picked up an amazing coffee creamer. Hazlenut, very tasty. Also got a bottle of French Vanilla creamer too, because why not?

Now let's get to my wip update:

Trick or Treat Moon

Progress has been slow and steady. Lots of color added to the border:

Ohhh orange and purples. Such a great contrast against that black aida.

More of the border:

That brown cube is a caramel, I believe. 😋

And this 👇 is a tootsie roll:

It calls for a lot of backstitch on the chart, so I think it will have a lot more definition after that.

The whole view. Stitched a good amount of the Moon outline. I love the way the candy is floating around, like it's raining from the sky. So fun.

Well that's all for this week! See you next time and;

Happy Stitching!

Marisol

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