ROAD KILL.

To make a Halloween road kill costume, you need, 3 metres  x 63" of red polyester lining material (cheap is good)  2 metres of elastic, 4 metres of nylon netting, and the feathers of two grouse or pheasants. Feathers are free from your local butcher and the season has just started. This dress can be made for under £10, and can be made in under an hour. For a free diagram, please e-mail info@prickyourfinger.com

TRICK OR TREAT!

Bring your treats to Prick Your Finger to-day between 12-7 pm or we're tricking you....

OH DEAR! ROSEMARY....

......concentrated so hard on counting her stitches that her eye balls popped right out of her head.......to make your eyeballs pop out of your head like Rosemary's this Halloween, crochet a ball, working the rounds in black for the pupil, blue, brown or green for the iris, and white for the rest of the eye ball.  Add red veins in chains and then stick the whole thing to your face with double sided sticky tape, and look suprised.

TINA'S RED SLUB SHRUG!

Congratulations to Tina who has made a lovely red armed shrug in Tate and Style Check Red Slub. 

Tina actually finished this in the Spring, but it has taken me this long to develop the Lomo photo. 

THE KNITTED FIREWORK!

Our Felix knitted a firework. It is so much friendlier than the ones that make the puppies frightened. Are you coming to visit us soon Felix? I do hope so...

You can visit Felix at www.myspace.com/littlesongboxmusic

THE POSTERS CAME FROM THE WALLS.

There perhaps isn't a lead singer in the world who has the kind of following that Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode enjoys in Russia. Jeremy Deller and Nick Abrahams have made a film about Depeche Mode fans, by travelling from Europe to North America, to Mexico and Russia. 

In Russia 9th May is Victory Day, a national holiday, but the date coincides with Dave Gahan's birthday, so it is also known throughout the country as 'Dave Day'. There is beautiful footage of young Muscovites, joined in a mass sing a long to Depeche Mode songs. To be able to gather and to celebrate their favourite band, provided some kind of emotional release after the hardships of communism. 

In Eastern Berlin and across FUSSR, there is no band merchandise. The posters come from the walls as soon as they go up. Fans work hard to get the Depeche Mode look. They get together to make badges,  T-shirts, cartoons and shrines. Depeche Mode has become a religion and a hobby.

Even if you are not a DP fan we strongly recommend this film. It has had it's first screening at BFI and should be out on Mute soon. 

SUNDAY SERMON COLLECTION BAG.

The School of life, ( www.theschooloflife.com ) is holding a series of Sunday Sermons, and Louise has been busy knitting a 'Grey Area Collection Bag' to collect confessions and questions. 

In the old days, most of us looked to religion for direction on how to live.  Now we spend our Sundays reading the papers or surfing the net, finding little in the way of good council.

The School of Life have asked maverick cultural figures to tell us what they see as the virtues to cling to and the vices to be wary of. 

Sermons will be on Punctuality, Seduction, Pessimism, Curiosity, and Loving Your Neighbour.

To book, e-mail info@theschooloflife.com or ring 020 7833 1010.

All sermons will take place at 11.30am at the Horse Hospital on Collenade.