LONG TIME GONE with a HALLOWEEN twist

 

This is one of the first blocks I made. I love the low volume background. Now I want to make a quilt with only these blocks.

Monkey wrenches with fussy cut centers. 

Some of the blocks on the design wall. I used a lot of scraps for this quilt.

I had to add a couple of Halloween blocks to my version of this quilt. 

Pumpkin block and others from the pattern. I drew up a paper piecing template for the diamond blocks. 

I find that I can't make them accurately without paper piecing.

Here I have started adding the sashing to the blocks.

Here's the completed quilt. I thought about adding the Halloween blocks a little late in the process. I wish I would have put one more on the left to balance it out a bit.

Trees and houses in a spooky forest for the back.

The back.

House Quilt and pin cushions.

Using scraps of fabric from my stash and my quilt circle I made another house quilt for our charity group. 

I used donated fabric for all of the trees and the backgrounds. 

I used a pale pink with white dots and a neutral floral for the backgrounds. I had about a half yard of each. So I figure the houses are in different subdivisions.  This quilt went together so fast and it's a great use of scraps.

Here are 2 of the 5 pin cushions I made from the magazine American Patchwork and Quilting. These are another great scrap user.

 

BE MY NEIGHBOR quilt

I started this quilt on May 4, 2020. It's called "Be My Neighbor" the pattern was free from Moda Bake Shop in 2018. I downloaded all of the block instructions and this coloring page at the time. I believe it was a quilt along hosted by Pat Sloan. I watercolored this page and only ended up changing a few things as I went. It was a helpful tool.

This is the fabric I used for all of the windows. It was the perfect size.

This is the fabric that I cut the ghosts out of and also the spooky tree was part of this.

Mr. and Mrs. Frankenghost go trick or treating.

I quilted it with Ghosts.

I used this skeleton panel for the back. 

This thing is huge! It measures 86 x 73.

The house on the left has a mailbox.

Check out the windows.

Each row of houses has a different night sky.

It's a good thing one of those ghosts was a pirate. Just the perfect touch for the boat.

Here's the spooky tree.

These ghosts are my favorite!

I put the binding on this on 6-3-2020. It took me a month from start to finish.

Halloween quilt- Community Sampler

This quilt is called Community Sampler. 

It was a quilt along by Maureen Cracknell and Sharon Holland. It was designed by Sharon Holland.

sharonhollanddesigns.com  The pattern is still free last time I checked. The quilt along was originally in 2018 I believe. I saved all of the blocks and finally made it during this Covid-19 shutdown.

I used a line of fabric designed by Johanna Parker who is a Folk Art designer. I love her vintage style. I thought the quilt looked rather boring until I put the background setting triangle on.  I fell in love when I added the ric rac border. 

The blocks went together so quick and accurately-I had them all done in 2 days.

On day 3 I added the setting triangles and borders.

Quilted and Bound. I used Anne Bright's Spooky Spirals design.

The back is bats on a Cheddar background. Johanna Parker fabric that I got on Craftsy. You can get her fabric on Spoonflower also and they have a large selection.

Bound with an old Joanne's fabric that has gray words on black.

My Small World Halloween quilt

I bought this pattern booklet by Jen Kingwell about a year ago.  It is called "My Small World".
I made my version with Halloween Fabrics from my stash that I have collected over the past 20 years. Three bins full.

I started this quilt on April 15th. I bound it on May 20th. I added a Castle and an Undertaker. I added a Martini Lounge and a Hot Air Balloon. You can go on and on with this.

Here it is with the sky in progress.

The hearse for the Undertaker and the Martini glass.

Skeleton Party on the second floor.

Had the alien fabric so I had to use it somewhere.

I'm about half way done here.

I just had to add a Castle. I eliminated the hexagon hill. This is a good close up of all the random sky fabrics.

My neighbor gave me the Hot Air Balloon. I cut it out and used baker's twine for the ropes. 

I just zig-zagged over them. I didn't quilt over the balloon part and it pops out a little.

These are the first blocks I made for this quilt.

I love this skeleton guy with the rattles.

Hey leave me a comment and tell me which part is your favorite. Tell me what you would do differently. I just might make another one.