This was my "witches outfit" for Chocolate Night. I made the individual pieces of the "vest" using the gelatin plate printing technique explained in Cloth, Paper, Scissors magazine. For the fabric base I used several of my black discharged fabrics, my collection of Stewart Gill paints and some of the Sulky thread we won in the Hoffman Challenge to embellish each piece. It was a fun project, but very time consuming....
Halloween trimmings greeted The Stitchin Witches in every nook and cranny for CN...this lovely witch doll was perched on the edge of the counter scrutinizing all the activity's...I believe she is a doll Jody had made years back...Click and enlarge and you will see a special bottle of wine.....don't miss the shoe....The Elders fetish....giggles
center piece on our sewing table... 
...A black cat stuffed with fat quarters in Halloween colors...was the focal point of another table...
Halloween Wall Hangings...pumpkins, scarecrows all were present...The Elder had created the perfect Halloween Ambiance....
these Stitchin Witches Hat Pin Cushions we had created for Chocolate Night....Hint of things to come....Remember the Forkin Family...they are still multiplying The Ol'Blogger
Christmas....we prepare all year...making or buying special gifts just for CN....Pictured her is Rhona's pile...Fabric rusted and painted by Kathy, ATC cards designed by each one..... this year theme was buttons...Pearl R for Rhona pic here..... our first name letter from pearls was presented to all from Cindy.... Chocolate lip gloss...etc.......Each of us has our own mound of goodies..
This scrumptious looking cake...already cut into 
perfect individual pieces...makes the mouth water looking at it...
which quickly turns to a smile when receiving a piece...it is a box in the shape of a piece of chocolate cake...( the top is removable for our treasures) made with lots of love by Cindy...No cake can hold a candle to her sweetness... Cont....
Food is always apart of Chocolate Night...Really Food/Fabric is always apart of everything we do....I do believe...
Chocolate Roses every year...also the Chocolate Fountain
which is always flowing alone side 
the special Witches Shoe Plate (from our own sweet Cindy's home)full of goodies to stick with tooth picks and have a dip....hmmmmm..
First picture is of our own lovely Judith...the very colorful witch...dressed to the hilt....
Group Stitchin Witches...Left to Right...Me..the Ol' Blogger, Sherry, Cindy, Kathy, Rhona and last but never least would be The Elder...
Then here is Stitchin Witch Sherry hitching a ride on the shoulders of Casper the Friendly Ghost...We walked to a few of Jody's friends and neighbors who lived close by...what fun... a sight to behold....A man was walking his dog...Not sure what they thought...the man was more discreet than the dog...who kept turning around and checking us out...that dog never once made a sound though....gigglesOn Chocolate Night we all dressed as Stitchin Witches...I just had to get this video on first...oh I hope it works...I will be posting pictures of us all shortly...Sherry won the best costume... her award was our laughter....By the way she is the baby of the group... The Ol' Blogger
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I don't have a lot of information on theses baby quilts that Kathy made...but do want to share them...
This is the back of the second one...if you click and enlarge..I hope you will be able to see her quilting...it is beautiful.. She brought these to the Christmas Shoppe the day we delivered Pat's quilt...she would be sending them off before we would be together again...Thanks Kathy for sharing...We love seeing and touching each others creations...
The first draft is followed by rough drafts, which are unpolished versions. Cindy is laying out the first draft...this is what is called . Altered Board Book. Our Catalog Kathy... came up with the design for the board book...
Jody and I are making what-knots to bind the book together...
Sherry the Layout coordinator... placing the pictures.. of years past quilts...we had exhibited for the Christmas Shoppe...on each page..
The printed story is Truth with a touch of Fantasy/ Fiction: we cut it into paragraphs and placed on each page with the pictures...Rhona took a picture of the front of the shoppe and we placed it on the front of the book...
Friday Oct. 2 was a special day...The SoTA Sisters met at The Twelve Months of Christmas in keeping with the Spirit of Christmas to present beautiful lady...Pat with a gift we had worked on this year for her...Pictured on the stairs are Sherry, Cindy, Jody, Elaine, Rhona, Kathy and Pat holding the special book..
Pat is reading the book Christmas Memories...In the next few day's I will be posting with pictures and more details...... By the time she got to the last page she
realized the book and the quilt we had hung on Our Wall in her shoppe was made for her...Must apologizes as the pictures are all blurred....not the fault of the picture taker it is the camera...must get a new one...The Ol' Blogger
Cloth Paper Scissors Studios magazine and The SoTA Sisters would like to invite you into our sewing studios...we have posted our sewing studios over the months this year.... there are six of us...Five of our studios been posted - the only one missing is "The Elder's" (Jody is her name)...and hers will be on after our "Chocolate Night" which is Oct. 22 this year... Chocolate night is a yearly event for us....
We had a special work day at Rhona's Sat...One of the interesting things we learned...is that Cindy is glue impaired....it seems she get glue every where besides where she wants it...In the SoTA 's we allow each person to evolve on her own unique path to the finished product, even if it is not the traditional route.... She does clean up after herself....and imagine we thought she was perfect.....
Some of Cindy's scarves...these are beautiful...
These are a must for enlarging...she has used stamps of words and leaves...on some she over dyed....after rusting... She plan's on giving these for Christmas gifts...
Happy, Happy, Happy...that describes the atmosphere Saturday when the girls met at The Elders to divide our winnings from the Hoffman Challenge...
Ready Set Go....let the fun begin....
Kathy preparing a piece of fabric for separation...Notice the discharged shirt she has on..Nice....
Neat bundles for the six of us...Kathy has challenged us to all use a small piece of our winning fabric with next years Hoffman Challenge Fabric, with each enter our own exhibit...its a thought....Would be taking most of us too another level with our quilting...Outside our comfort level of having each other to work with....The Ol'Blogger
A person with a fetish for something is attracted to the object of that fetish.....did you every wonder how someone interested in these things actively live out their fantasies?
Jody is creating this quilt for grandson, Benjamin. With different animal and African prints she has used the Drunkards Path design....For the back.. she rusted white fabric by wrapping it on a large tube.... A perfect quilt for rusted fabric....and a very manly quilt for her little man....This is a quilt you need to click on and see up close...The fabric are Yummy....by scrolling all the way to the right you will be able to see an edge of the rusted fabric, it is gorgeous... I will try and get a back pic and add later...take the extra time and enjoy...The Ol'Blogger
Fons & Porter can move on over....Allen & Walters...have begun....giggles... Geri (my youngest daughter) had brought me a picture of a purse she wanted...along with the fabric she wanted it made from...Now my Grandma may have made things by looking at the Sears & Roebuck Catalog but not me....
Sherry came over today and with her guiding me every inch of the way...We made our own pattern...pictured above is the front view, next is the side view, and last the back...The picture of the purse given us showed it tapered at the top....no pockets we could see...really not a good picture... Oh, lets begin.....we created our front and back...sides and bottom...how about some pockets outside?...and maybe some piping?....we discussed....next we cut out the lining pieces.....pockets inside of course...okay how we going to taper?....lets try cutting, tapering from bottom to top ...one inch....pinning together....looking at.....another inch....pinning again....till we liked what we saw...same to lining....Bottom on first or sides?....mark 1/2 inch start and stop spots....Hey this works....Sherry writing, erasing on paper as we progressed....Yes, we have it on paper and with drawings.......All we need is a name.....:0)
This meant so much to me...while my family is going through a bump in the road....it is so nice to have a day of being preoccupied with a dear friend to share the day with...to experience a challenge never before undertaken of making a purse with no pattern...creating our own... Chattering back and forth.....ideas flowing...ahhhh
Here is some of the treasure - We divided up our fabric winnings from the Hoffman 2009 Challenge. Altogether we received 13 different batik fabrics, each one beautiful in it's own unique way. 
We worked on bead trees at Kathy's recently and this is one the Elder made. We decided that we needed more bead trees, as 1 just wasn't enough, so Cindy and Kathy had ordered glass bead and we divided those up as well.
Our dear friend Judith joined us about this time, so we trooped across the street to see the Bead tree that the Bill had created for Marie. Our husbands are amazing - they sit down, start working on a creation, and put us all to shame.
While admiring Marie's bead tree, we spied the wine bottles decorated with glass beads - (the kind you put in flower vases). Now I want to go home and glue glass beads on empty wine bottles - like we all need another hobby!
