If you want to startle the trick-or-treaters on Halloween and have a few hours to spare in the next week or so, you can turn a piece of quarter-inch exterior plywood into a 16.75-by-20-inch black cat.

WORCESTER - Worcester artist John Hyden has a tiger by the tail and no way of knowing exactly how big the beautiful beast might turn out to be. In a new show at the Worcester Center for Crafts, ...