Super crafter and Halloween fanatic Alexa Westerfield is doing something fun this month to share crafty Halloween patterns with the world. She calls it "Terrorific Tuesday."

Each Tuesday this month she's featuring a handful of Halloween projects from around the web, and this week she was kind enough to include links to my Halloween patterns, as well as some great projects from my fellow about crafters, Tammy at Jewelry Making and Kate at Rubber Stamping.

I also love the Crystal Web Necklace, the painted Halloween treat pot and Alexa's own crafts using her stash of googly eyes.

Are you crafting for Halloween? I'd love to hear about your projects!

I really enjoy knitting Diagonal Seed Stitch, this week's stitch of the week. It's basically just Stockinette Stitch with a bunch of purls that make diagonal lines across the fabric, but since the diagonal makes which stitches are involved in the diagonal shift every row, it's a heck of a lot more entertaining than Stockinette.

There are several variations of this kind of stitch that you can use on different numbers of stitches, and once you get the hang of it you could easily add the stitch pattern to any basic Stockinette pattern to give it a more interesting look. Right now I'm seeing a cute coat or cardigan in this stitch and worked in a multicolored yarn for even more interest, but it also looks nice in a plain solid yarn, as shown.

I really love pillows. I have a pillow in my computer chair, several on each couch, and others that just float around for whenever they might be needed. Pillows are an easy and relatively inexpensive way to change the way a room looks and feels, and this striped pillow will bring a lot of personality to any room you put it in.

Knit in two colors of two yarns and two stitch patterns (Stockinette and Reverse Stockinette), this pillow almost couldn't be easier, but its impact is dramatic, and not just because of the hot pink yarn. The varying widths of the stripes make this more interesting than many striped projects, both to knit and to have in your home.

This one ended up pink and white because I got both of these yarns in a yarn grab bag, but you could make it from any two colors and any two similarly weighted yarns you have in your stash. And it's such great TV knitting, you might want to make more than one.

I finally finished a good chunk of that reading I was planning to occupy myself with last weekend and have just posted a review of the new Mason-Dixon Knitting book. Just like the first one, this book is a lot of fun to read and contains plenty of great patterns you'll want to try.

This book focuses on developing knitting skills you might have been afraid of before, things like knitting lacy stuff, Fair Isle, knitting for kids who can say no, and making gifts and holiday decorations. Of course there are also plenty of projects for the kitchen, including knit cuffs worked onto purchased rubber gloves.

There are so many patterns in this book I'd love to knit given the time, from a very colorful rug to a lacy shawl made of two colors to look like plaid (I really almost bought some Kidsilk Haze earlier today so I could do just that). If you love those sassy knitting ladies, you'll want to pick up this book.

And if you need an introduction to their style, check out their hilarious music video for their country knitting song, "Pardon Me, I Didn't Knit that for You." Enjoy!