I thought it over, and decided a little super-simplified machine embroidery would do nicely. I cut the cloth into six equal rectangles, then used a pumpkin outline pattern to cut six pumpkin shapes. I sketched lightly with a pen to add jack o' lantern faces:
Then, as you can see, I started zigzagging around each with black thread on my machine. The stitch length is set to button holing, and the stitch width was just a little more than '1'. I just took my time, and did all six - five jack o' lanterns, and one plain pumpkin.
Then I looked at these nice six inch pumpkins and wondered what I could do with these. Of course, I was thinking of them as small, very absorbent dishcloths, so other kitchen paraphernalia would go well. I hit the sales and came up with a grouping.
First, a hanging hand towel. I don't see these much anymore, but twenty years ago, I made dozens of these for Christmas gifts. I still love them. They are easy to make, handy to have, and they wash up beautifully. I bought a solid orange towel, cut it in half, and crocheted a hanger onto it. I don't have a pattern for this. I crochet a lot, but it's freeform or it's just a repeated stitch. I don't know how to read a crochet pattern. That doesn't stop me from being a pretty prolific crocheter. I added a cute pumpkin button to the hanging strap.
I added some additional buttons along the bottom, as well.
I added in a ghostly jug of hand soap, and a scrubby crocheted from netting.
Please excuse the blurry photography. My light was pretty much gone, but I wanted to get this post up and running. I think this little group of items would be a great teacher gift, hostess gift, Great Pumpkin exchange gift, etc. It cost so little -- less than $5 altogether.
It certainly would add a cute spooky touch to anyone's kitchen. The color of the Wow! shammy cloth got my creativity rolling! What kinds of things set you off?
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Love,
Sass
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