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Trick or Freaks E-book Review.

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The Trick or Freaks is an original Halloween experience that explores the sheer horror  of NO CANDY, while revealing the true spirits of Halloween. But this book isn’t just another Halloween story it is a handmade book ( $10 ) and features a black vellum cover and recycled craft paper pages. Each cover is completed with unique orange paper swatches, which are torn from large sheets at angles to highlight the fibers and layers of the paper.  The book is written and made by Tiffany Winget and illustrated by her husband, musician and songwriting partner Darin Bennett.  The illustrations were done with fine line ink pen and the color was added using Photoshop.  Darin also created an instrumental theme song for the story.

Just by looking at the book you can tell a whole lot of love (and family in this case) has gone into making this wonderfully illustrated captivating story. We loved it! and having the song was an extra fun bonus for the kids.

The entire project can be found at www.trickorfreaks.com .

The Trick or Freaks Etsy can be found here 

 

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Printable Cross Stitch Sheets Make it Easy to Cross Stitch on Clothes

Lately I have been feeling like all of my clothes are looking a little worn or feeling a little tired. I don’t want to buy new clothes, though, so there’s been a lot of mending, altering and adding special touches to things that otherwise might get overlooked or not worn at all. 

As an example, not too long ago I added a little bit of embroidery to a T-shirt, which was a lot of fun to do and made me start eyeing all my solid-colored garments and wondering how they might look with some stitching added. 

Of course you can cross stitch on garments, too, whether T-shirts or woven tops, skirts, pants and more. But it can be tricky to transfer cross stitch designs to your garment to make stitching easier. 

Much like with embroidery, it’s great to use a water soluble stabilizer to keep your fabric in place while you stitch and to transfer your design (or your cross stitch grid at least) while you’re stitching. Then you just wash away the stabilizer when you’re done and it will look like the stitching has always been there. 

Ashley General Handmade uses Sulky Stick ‘n Stitch, which is a product I use, too. It’s easy to use and washes away cleanly. 

To make it even easier, she designed some printable cross stitch grids at different counts that you can print out to draw your own cross stitch designs, but you can also print the grid right on the Sulky, so you can stitch on top of squares and then remove them when you’re done. 

Brilliant, right? 

She has pages as big as 8 count and all the way down to 20 (remember: the bigger the number the smaller the stitches will be) that you can download and print to make your own designs and also use to make stitching on clothing easier. I’m definitely going to try this the next time I want to cross stitch on fabric!

You can grab her printables over at Ashley General Handmade.

[Photo: Ashley General Handmade]