The Story of Garnet

Last year I started a Halloween-themed fabric art book about a girl named Garnet. I've done a few pages, and plan to finish up before Halloween this year. Here is a preview of the fabric book. The narrative is contained on tags included on each page.


Garnet was a normal girl until one scary night when she witnessed strange and wondrous things. After that night, she felt a calling to sorcery and all things spooky. She sometimes went into the woods and practiced spell casting.

The house on the corner was haunted. Everyone knew that. Garnet lived in this house with her three aunts, Bertha, Brunhilde, and Gertrude, said to be witches by the townspeople. Strange shadows played at the windows, and the house had an eerie glow about it.

When Garnet was 15, she began her witch training in earnest. Learning to use a flying broom was Garnet's most difficult task. She was not a natural, and she suffered crash after crash.

Bertha -- Spell Caster, Brunhilde--Coven Leader, Gertrude--Hedge witch.

What Witches Do

The witches don their pointed hats,

The witches croak and croon,

The witches ride their broomsticks

Away beyond the moon.

The witches don their flowing cloaks,

The witches stir their brew,

The witches chant their magic spell,

All the dark night through.

The witches stroke their big black cats,

They comb their locks of gray,

Yet when the first, faint daylight comes,

The witches hide away.

~ Unknown