Oh no - it's almost Halloween again, and I haven't even started on my costume!  Periodicals to the rescue!

As I've told you many times, we go to the newsstand several times a year to get magazines to fill out our collection.  Some of them are special issues of magazines we do subcribe to, some only appear for the holidays and some are titles we don't get at all and might evaluate for subscription.  When it starts to get a little chilly outside, you can bet we'll be picking up cozy craft magazines for all your knitting and crocheting needs!

I've got a couple days and some scrap yarn, so I picked up this Crochet Today (I already told you I don't knit) because it promised quick and easy Halloween stuff.  I'll warn you - I've never done much in the way of complicated, shaped crocheting.  I'm more of a scarf girl.  So I had certain doubts about "quick" and "easy."

I picked out an adorable little fake mustache pattern.  I thought it was really cute, it only needed one color, and it's small enough that it wouldn't take long to rip out any mistakes.  Low commitment project, in other words.

It turned out to be a clever pattern that really taught me a lot about increasing and decreasing to make shapes!  It just uses the basic stitches (slip stitch, decreases, half doubles and doubles) and turned out very well.  I liked it so much I made one for everybody!

Here's your Periodicals team!  From left: Big Al, Triple D, Magazine Queen, Broadsheet (that's me!), Dewey Damsel and Coop De'Ville.  In the middle, Evening Post Pete.

So when you find yourself in need of a quick and easy project, don't forget about Periodicals!  We have a lot of magazines that cover just about every craft you can think of, and when we get a new batch of newsstand magazines the old ones go into circulation, so you can take them home for a happy Halloween!