When I first found this pattern, I was abruptly reminded of driving to the grocery store with my mother, my cousin and I sitting in the backseat, singing along with the golden oldies on the radio. When the Eagles came on, my cousin went right on singing, labouring under the delusion that the woman they were singing about was itchy, not witchy, and then interrupted herself to wonder aloud just why she was so itchy in the first place. (The unspoken consensus in the backseat seemed to be VD, although this is an archaic term that we didn’t actually know back then.) From the front seat, my mother pointed out that the woman was in fact witchy, not itchy, and this put rather a kibosh on our impromptu concert.
After completing “Scaredy Cats” from the Just Cross Stitch Halloween issue, I tackled “Witchy Kitty” by Brittercup Designs, and then turned it into a cute l’il pillow ornament.
I used plain old DMC threads instead of the fancy-pants overdyed ones recommended in the instructions, but I think it looks just as good. The one thing I’m particularly proud of is using Kreinik glow-in-the-dark fine braid to do her potion; it makes the piece really pop. I fashioned a corded hanger using the same colours I used in the design, and then….
….I backed it with some wicked cool fabric with glow-in-the-dark kitteh eyes on it before stuffing it. I now have the better part of .3 metres of that stuff in my stash, and I’m going to have to find a project for the rest of it.
Happy Halloween!
(And now the Christmas stitching begins…!)
The Witty Child 