Halloween, trick or treat

Another Halloween post with another Halloween pattern, this one too for cross-stitching, the others can be viewed here; Halloween crochet pattern and Halloween cross-stitch sign pattern.

We are waiting anxiously for Halloween, it seems our party will be quite late this year, but as always we will have a small party with friends. Any excuse to get dressed up and have a ball. We have stocked up with treats for little ones who ring our doorbell too. Gacha Vilje had a bad dream the other day where her husband had accidentally eaten all the Halloween candy for the kids and Gacha Vilje was furious, they did have a whole drawer full of chocolate from when it was on sale and husband ate the Halloween candy! There were wrappers everywhere on the floor and husband was happily eating and hadn't noticed the candy was for Halloween! Luckily it was only a dream, but Gacha Vilje made sure to tell her husband that candy was not for adult eating, she thinks he gets it.

English version:

Trick or Treat 

            

Norwegian Version:

Knask eller Knep

                 

Happy Halloween!

 Let us know what you are going as, we were thinking of having a pirate party since we have a cut out  cardboard (almost) life sized Jack Sparrow in our store room.

Link to pdf of Knask and Trick.

Making of Harens Saganatt

When we here at gacha-stitches finished the V for finurlig pattern and published the pattern we were suddenly hit by inspiration and started on our next pattern. A bunny-baby blanket, Harens saganatt was born. Haren is Norwegian for the hare and Saganatt means night of fables so the name will be the hare's night of fable which we think suits a baby blanket perfectly.
The blanket can be used for sleeping as well as playing so we thought night suited the sleeping part and fables for playing as well as sweet dreams. And hares just because half of gachastitches is bunny crazy.

There may be more saganatts patterns later, after all the other part of gachastitches is crazy about cats, dragons and other woodland creatures...

we had some yarn left from V for finurlig and started crocheting right away!

On the drawing board                                                           We made ten different hares so you can choose which hare to crochet

We digitalised the pattern into a chart 

and then we made the blanket in full and started on edges.

Harens saganatt coming soon!

Welcome to Gacha in Stitches

Hi *waves shyly* 

We would like to introduce ourselves, we are Vilje and *Kio and together we are Gacha Stitches. 

And our blog is called Gacha in Stitches.

Would you like to know why we have called ourselves that?

A gacha is a toy machine you put money into and turn a handle and out comes a toy, it is so called in Japan because the sound it makes is gacha gacha. In stitches could refer to the sharp pain that can make one double over when in a fit of laughter.

So you could say we are a toy machine laughing very hard.

★Kio

Is a librarian who loves cats and everything magic. She is the knitter amongst the gacha's but she has recently learned to crochet too. She also reads, draws and cross-stitches.

Vilje

Adores bunnies and she likes things that sparkle and are cute and pink although she has ventured out and is embracing more colours these days. Is mostly into crochet and cross stitch but is trying out knitting to see if she can get a grasp on it.

We will make patterns and share them on this blog. Sometimes we might share our adventures too^^