Hello my lovelies... I have a little prezzie for you! I conjured up four variations on my pinspinner pattern in seasonally appropriately designs and made you some patterns so you can make your own! First we have the devilishly charming fellow above, and there is also a grinning bat-spinner...
...I used vellum for a translucent effect on this ghoul-guy:
And finally, my favorite, a sinister back widow lurking in her web:
You can put these together in the same manner as the original pinspinners (instructions here) but I wanted these to be more substantial, so here is the method I used:
Materials needed:
- White, red, purple and black card stock
- White vellum for ghost
- 3/8" Wood dowels
- Black pony beads - 4 per spinner
- Craft paints in yellow, orange and black
- Spray gloss varnish
- Drill with a small bit
- 4D X 1 1/2" Box nails
- Hammer, scissors, paintbrushes
Construction:
- Print face disks on heavy white card stock and cut out. Spray with two light coats of gloss.
- Punch or poke a hole in center of nose.
- Print patterns onto white card stock to use as templates. Cut out on lines.
- Trace around template on color card stock, making sure to mark dots.
- Using a small hole punch or sharp nail, make holes at dots, making sure they are slightly larger than the shaft of the nail. This will allow your spinner to turn freely.
- Paint wood dowels yellow, add orange stripes, coat with gloss varnish.
- Paint heads of four nails gloss black.
- Drill a small pilot hole 3/4" from end of dowel.
Assembly:
- Slide disk onto nail.
- Slide bead onto nail behind disk.
- One by one gently curve in the wings of the spinner and slide onto the nail.
- Slide two beads onto the nail, then insert nail through hole in center of spinner.
- Slide one more bead onto nail.
- Position nail in pilot hole in dowel and carefully tap with hammer until nail is securely attached to dowel.
They fit perfectly into some wood spools I had, so now they can stand nicely at attention. Here's a group portrait:
Please let me know if you spot any errors or omissions in my directions. Hope you enjoy some spooky spinning!
Jenny
Oh! I almost forgot... the patterns! Just click to enlarge them in a new window then right-click to save them to your computer. Have fun!
And last but not least, the spinner-spooks for the spooky-spinners! (say that ten times really really fast, I dare you)
My turn to swoon (and thuded my self too). Swooning spooky style! Oh Jenny... it's so cute I can't stand it!
Cute + Spooky + Boo... cuspooboo! Gezundteit!
And I read this entire post in spooky witch voice - and now it's stuck. Thanks, Jenny. My pretty.
Posted by: happy zombie | October 09, 2009 at 07:26 PM
Cool!
Thanks :)
Posted by: jo james | October 10, 2009 at 01:58 AM
Love Owlsorts AND these cute pinwheels.
Posted by: Susan Ramey Cleveland | October 10, 2009 at 07:00 AM
FABULOUS. My 3 year old is going to spin! :)
Posted by: Dee Dee | October 11, 2009 at 06:23 AM
Thank You! Spookalicious!
Posted by: Jackfrosty | October 11, 2009 at 09:07 AM
These are devilishly delightful, so darling! Thank you so much for sharing them with us Jenny!
Posted by: Sally | October 11, 2009 at 02:48 PM
Super Cute! I love the spider web one. I'll be linking to this. Great stuff, Thanks:-)
Posted by: Amy @ Living Locurto | October 11, 2009 at 08:34 PM
this is so cool thank you for sharing it
Posted by: dianalyn | October 11, 2009 at 10:47 PM
LOVE your spinners, they're darling!
Thanks so much for the tutorial!
I am going to post a link to this on our Joli Paquet blog if that is ok with you? I think our readers would adore this tutorial as well!
Cerri xo
Posted by: cerri | October 11, 2009 at 11:57 PM
Thanks for the patterns, these are so unique!!
Carmen L.
Posted by: Carmen | October 12, 2009 at 10:50 AM
These are so amazing! I'll have to find a crafty friend to sweet talk into making me a set of these!
Posted by: Steven A. | October 13, 2009 at 01:11 AM
Hi there,
Oh, the fun I've had looking through your past posts. All amazing. Thanks for all you share!! And these pinwheels here...SO ADORABLE!!!
Thanks for stopping by yesterday.
M.L.
Posted by: M.L.@thehouseofwhimsy | October 13, 2009 at 02:31 AM
One of the best Halloween craft projects I've seen this year! Going to link to this entry in my blog.
Posted by: OldHalloween | October 13, 2009 at 09:02 PM
these are adorable!
Posted by: jenn | October 15, 2009 at 08:37 AM
The tutorial is fabulous and I just love those spinners. Thank you... for all your hard work and sharing your craft!!
Posted by: Marie Zeleny | October 17, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Oh these are so cute. Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: Elisa B. | October 18, 2009 at 02:10 AM
You are creative, generous, thoughtful, and kind. Thanks so much for sharing. I can't wait to try every one of them.
Posted by: Janey | October 18, 2009 at 04:22 PM
I just bought a bunch of Halloween pencils. Planning on making a bunch to give out to trick-or-treaters. Going to try making these so that kids can remove the spinner later and use the pencil. Maybe some stiff wire twisted aroound the pencil instead of a nail?
Posted by: Steve | October 18, 2009 at 09:03 PM
Thanks so much! These are awesome, I'm picturing them made large enough to lawn ornaments as well!
Posted by: Kris Speed | October 18, 2009 at 09:29 PM
These are so cute!!!
Posted by: Petula | October 19, 2009 at 08:55 AM