Halloween Quilt – “Fright Night” Pieced Background

by on 8:04 pm in Free Patterns, News

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Now that you've chosen the 20 fall color fabrics for the background we need to begin the cutting and sewing process.

The background section is a pieced brick design. I know this could be strip pieced quickly with a limited number of fabrics but with this quilt we're not working with a large number of pieces so I like having the individual rectangles to lay them out and play with the colors and shading.

Cutting:

  • Cut 54 rectangles 2 1/2" x 3 1/2"



Lay out the rectangles in 9 rows of 6 triangles each. Arrange and rearrange them until you have a flow of color that pleases you. I even chose to use the reverse side of some of my fabrics to get the look I wanted. You may want to cut additional rectangles from some fabrics and eliminate others.

When you're happy with your arrangement sew each row of 6 rectangles together. Press seams to one side.

Sew the 9 rows together staggering the vertical seam lines. The staggers don't have to be exact or the same on all rows. Press seams in one direction.





That's it for today. We'll trim things up and carve our pumpkins next!

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Fabric Requirements for Halloween Quilt

by on 8:46 am in Free Patterns, News

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If you'd like to make the Halloween wall quilt I showed a sneak peak of, these are the fabric requirements for Fright Night. The finished size of the quilt is about 23" x 30".






Fright Night Wall Quilt
23" x 30"

  • 20 scrap pieces of a variety of prints ranging from light tan, light peach to dark rust. Pieces should be at least 3" x 4". Don't be afraid to use the back side of a fabric if it blends with your other fabrics. I did that!
  • 6" x 7" piece solid color white fabric
  • 6" square yellow print
  • 6" square tomato red print
  • Three 6" squares for pumpkins (I used medium, med. dark and dark orange prints)
  • Fat quarter of solid color black fabric
  • 1/4 yard for inner border (I used a dark cinnamon print)
  • 1/2 yard for outer border and single layer binding (I used a black print with gold stars)
  • Black embroidery floss
  • 6" x 7" piece of fusible interfacing
  • Backing and batting pieces approximately 30" x 36"

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All Those Polka Dot Grapes Were……….

by on 8:15 am in Antique Quilt, Block of the Month, Free Patterns, News

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It seems I'm always so busy and it's been driving me crazy not being able to share my latest discovery on the Beyond The Cherry Trees quilt with you so I decided if those of you getting addicted too could follow me on Twitter I could quickly tweet about something new in just a few seconds.
If you're interested in the quick updates on the quilt or just want to see something really cool I've discovered click on the little bird below or on the sidebar to Follow Me On Twitter. Note: I think you need to sign up for a Twitter account to be a follower but you don't need to tweet there unless you want to.



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Well............. I couldn't get those brown grapes on the center block out of my mind so I cranked up the Ott light, got out some tweezers, a seam ripper and a magnifying glass.



I wiggled, twisted, finger pressed and finally found a section of brown fuzz that opened up and screamed -



Hey you, I was purple!

Yup, the coolest little purple stripe. The stripe was probably about the same shade as these reproduction fabrics.



How cool is that! It puts a wrinkle in calculating the yardage amounts for the quilt. I need to look the whole thing over again very carefully to see if there's more purple in other blocks. I'm pretty confident the blue vines are a fugitive green where they used to dye yellow over blue to get green fabric but you'd think there would be more purple than just in that center block.

I know you're all patiently waiting for the first block but I really want to get all the fabric requirements correct for those who need to purchase fabric or want to work with only one fabric for each color. I have finished the cutting layout for the background fabric. The pattern will be written with 11 yards as the yardage needed for the background but if you're searching your stash and cut carefully you can get by with 9 yards.

I will post the first block by October 10

We turn the page on the calendar this week and October brings us Halloween. It's always been a fun time at our house. Over the years I made so many costumes for the boys they started renting them out to earn a little extra money. I don't have anyone to costume up this year so I thought it would be fun to share a wall quilt I made a long time ago but still love. Here's a sneak peak...



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