It´s my wicked day and time for the witch to fly
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We don´t have Halloween in Sweden, the commercial interests couldn´t get the Swedes to be influenced to feast Halloween. You could see some pumpkins for sale in the shops, but not so much more. No spiders, no skeletons and no ghosts and not even one witch.
At first I hadn´t any idea what to sew, and I started to blame myself being so hasty to hop in something that I couldn´t maybe manage to get something out of it.
But as I love challenges, I thought there must be some solutions to my problems and I must find some idea of what to create.
I started to google in order to find some Halloween posters to get inspirations to create my wicked projects.
And what I found were Halloween witches that seemed to be some kindreds and look alike to our Påskkäringar, Easter bitches.
Påskkärring is very much part of the old Easter traditions even
into Christian times and some traditions are still practiced.
Påskkärring is a witch with a hideous face
and a large nose, dressed in head cloth and a wide robe, flying through the air
on a broomstick. The stick should be used with the broom in front (often
wrongly depicted). With her on the broomstick is a black cat (always a symbol
of bad luck and sometimes a transformation of the devil) and a coffee-pot
(coffee grains were used to predict the future or cast evil spells).
All påskkärringar (plural form) gather on
the hill Blåkulla for a "congress" during the Easter where they
meet with the devil. The major travelling days are Wednesday and Maundy Thursday. Many claims have been made as to where in Sweden this Blåkulla is located. A
recent claim is on Blå Jungfrun, a small island i between the Öland island and
the mainland.
I then got the fantastic idea to transform a Swedish påskkärring to an American Halloween witch with a Swedish touch.
I started to sketch and draw my witch and I have had so fun making my wicked lady with the necessary attributes, but I found it difficult to give her a large nose and grim face, my witch is maybe to pretty but I think she is cool.
I started with a grey background fabric of 12,5 inches square,
My witch is enjoying her journey through the blowing winds lazy resting on the broomstick, as it was a flying carpet with her head on a big fat cat as her pillow. Her companions are a black raven sitting on her knee and a big spider on her breast. And don´t you love her sexy stockings and her boots.
The landscape is Swedish with a church tower embellished with a golden cock, here is the Swedish touch to the Halloween.
Dont you think she is a very cool and wicked lady??
I had so fun making the witch and I hope that you will enjoy my wicked wall quilt and my story of the Swedish påskkärring.
I hope that I have given you some good and hearty laughters.
A great thanks for Madame Samm and Wendy Witch for organizing and doing this fantastic blog hop
This was my wicked project and be more wicked and visit the other wicked ladies today
Hill Valley Quilter (That´s me)
