Candy Corn Softie

My second pattern collection is for a couple cute Halloween softies.

For $2.50 you get the patterns for the candy corn and the tombstone, as well as instructions on how to make them. For today I wanted to point out the candy corn project.

I sewed mine up out of cotton, but my original plan was to handstitch it out of felted wool. I think it would be really cute, and you could do it with this pattern as is, you’d just have a slightly bigger finished project.

The idea for this came when I started thinking about how I wanted to decorate for Halloween. I love how the adults have reclaimed the holiday, so I didn’t want everything to be totally juvenile, but I also didn’t want to scare the crap out of my kids. The stuff in the stores seems to be exclusively one or the other – either it’s got googly eyes or it’s a human body part dripping with fake blood. I wanted to make a bunch of decorations that were festive, and cool, and somewhere in the middle.

I’ve already given a few of these away as hostess gifts, they’re just a nice little trinket to have around and really work with whatever else is already going on. I also had a teacher friend of mine beg me for a whole bunch to decorate her classroom with. Apparently it’s not just me who struggles with the appropriateness factor in Halloween decorating.

I think I might have to enlarge the pattern and make a couple pillow sized candy corn to toss on the couches. Maybe I’ll even do those out of velvet or something to really bring in that grown up sophistication.