Halloween 

I love Halloween, not just because it happens to be my birthday, but because it's the one time of year you can go crazy with your creations.  You can make items you wouldn't wear any other time of year and you can get away with using things like bright orange fabric!

Luckily many fabric designers and pattern companies have realised that we all love that excuse to do something a little bit different so we've put a few of our favourite items below for you with links through to the sites that stock them.

I love this fabric by Alexander Henry called The Ghastlies. This creepy modern day Adams family would be enough to give any sewing project a spooky twist.

Priced at £10.98 per meter this fabric can be purchased from the Fancy Moon website by clicking on this link.

You will find the Fancy Moon website here: www.fancymoon.co.uk

Seamstar have got a fab range of the My Mind's Eye Boo To you collection of fabrics including this one pictured called Boo scene.  Although I have to say I find it more cute than scary.  It is priced at £2.85 per fat quarter.  You can even buy a fat quarter bundle of the whole range and receive a 10% discount.  Click here to view the 'Spooky Bundle'

To visit the Seamstar site please go to www.seamstar.co.uk

Abakhan Fabrics have a whole range of Halloween fabrics from quilting cotton to hollogram satin and organza.  They also stock fancy dress patterns for halloween (both adults and children's) as well as ready made costumes in case you don't have the time to make them yourself.

The fabric pictured with the spider web design on it would make a great witches/wizards cloak.  It is available in several colours and also with ghosts on instead of spiderwebs.  It costs £4.69 per meter.

View the full range of fabrics on Abakhan's website: www.abakhan.co.uk

The lovely Trudy at Hot Patterns has kindly provided a witches hat & fascinator pattern for free download on www.fabric.com.  For the direct link to the download please click here.  

You will also find some other great free downloads on the Fabric.com site, including other Hot Patterns.  To visit the Hot Patterns website and view the rest of their range go to www.hotpatterns.com for a UK stockist of Hot patterns please visit www.sewbox.co.uk

Keep an eye on our interview section for an interview with Hot Patterns that will be online soon.

Not strictly sewing related as such (although many of their books are) Search Press are offering a Halloween face mask project from one of their books as this month's free download on their site.

You can download the project here

On their site you will also find the Zombie Felties book that we reviewed recently which is ideal for Halloween.  To view details of the book please click here.

Search Press add a free pattern and project to their site each month so it's worth keeping an eye on:  www.searchpress.com

 For something unique why not have a look at these zombie bunnies, handprinted by Black Cactus in London available in a couple different colour variations.  You can purhcase them on their Etsy or Folksy shops for around £9 per piece.

You can find the Black Cactus site here: http://blackcactusinlondon.com/

Their Folksy shop here: http://www.folksy.com/shops/BlackCactusinLondon

Their Etsy shop is here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/blackcactusinlondon?ref=seller_info 

Simplicity have a range of  Halloween patterns and trims, you will find many of their patterns on the Abakhan website.  They have some free projects for kid's Halloween ponchos on their site here: http://www.simplicity.com/t-how-to-sew-halloween-poncho.aspx

They have also provided the projects below to make a trick or treat box and a Halloween Holdall: