In honour of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Connecting Threads has available a free tutorial to make paper-pieced Pink Ribbon Pins.

Help raise awareness by sewing this simple quilted ribbon for your family, co-workers, and friends. Two sizes are available: large pin is 3″ x 4″ and the small pin 2 1/4″ x 3″.

Kaaren from the The Painted Quilt teaches us how to make these gorgeous fabric pumpkins in her Pumpkin Tutorial – Crazy Quilt Style!.

You’ll start with 6.5″ blocks, stack them, whack them, stitch them, then trim blocks to 4.5″. You’ll stitch the 4.5″ blocks together, make a tube, gather and stuff.

A great tutorial with lots of detailed photos.

Here’s a very quick and easy tutorial to make a spooky trick or treat bag for your little ones to use this Halloween. You’ll need 18 charms, 1/2 yard of fabric for the lining and 2 1/2 yards of black nylon webbing for the handles (or make your own).

I wish I had time to make new trick or treat bags for my nieces this year, but unfortunately I don’t. I’ll see about picking up some Halloween fabric on sale after though to make them for next year. Hopefully we can convince Lucy into letting Baby Alice use her little bag. It will also be Alice’s first birthday, born last Halloween.

I’m actually going to be spending Halloween with the girls… my first Halloween with little ones since my sister was a kid. Very excited. Lucy is going to be a Princess in her “pretty blue cinderella dress”. Do you have little ones? What are they dressing up as?