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.

RAINCLOUDS AND PUDDLES

I decided to cut up green, blue, aqua and purple scraps into 1.5, 2.0, and 2.5 inch squares. I wanted to make a scrap quilt out of these with a low volume background. I didn't know what it was going to be when it grew up. I put random color 1.5 squares together into 4 patches. I didn't like the mixed colors. I then just kept the colors the same in the 4 patches.

I made a lot of double 4 patches. I love them on point and thought it looked like rain.

It evolved as I sewed. The ideas just kept coming.

I got tired of making all of those tiny 4 patches so I made some larger ones using one color. They were going faster and I was running out of the larger low volumes anyway.

I clustered the larger 4 patches at the bottom and thought it looked like puddles. So then it evolved into gray clouds at the top. I decided to use the larger 4 patches on the sides too. 

I had an ombre fabric that went from light aqua to navy and used it for my setting triangles.

I would change it up next time and make it wider. I used the ombre as my binding also.

I think the quilting design is Pearls of Desire by Anne Bright

Here's this back.

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Charity quilts that I quilted and bound

Somebody donated a large amount of quilt tops to our Loose Threads circle. I quilted 2 of them in February. 

These 2 are larger than what we usually make. We donate these to St. Jude's Ranch.

This is a stack of 4 quilts that I quilted and bound for our Loose Threads group. I quilted all of these over the last week. I scrounged up some binding for them as well.

snail design  I thought this looked like fire hoses stacked and rolled.

I put fire trucks in the upper border area.

This is a sweet quilt make from a book panel. I quilted it with champagne bubbles.

I quilted this one with a meandering paws design.

I had to make this back larger so I added some squares to one side.

Dragon flies and frogs.

Heart quilt

I made this quilt from a kit from Blueprint. It used charm squares. I used an orange peel for the background and prism for the heart blocks.

I bought the backing for the kit as well. Everything was on clearance price.

I used a light gray thread to quilt it.

Ta Da!

New Year's Day Mystery 2020

On New Year's Eve I got an email from Kris of Scrapdash. She was going to host a Mystery quilt on New Year's Day. She was giving a clue every hour from 10am to 3pm.  She gave us the fabric requirements on New Year's Eve.  I read the first clue wrong and made my 16 patch too small.

I was just too lazy to gather fabrics up so I just waited until New Year's Day and grabbed fabrics from the most recent scrap piles. I had a lot left over from my At the Seashore quilt. I remade the 16 patch here. I'm trying out green stripes for the inner border here.

I went with the green and white stripe and mitered the border. That was part of the instructions. I'm trying out another outer border here.

I was going to use this daisy as my outer border because it would pull it together with the daisy strip and pinwheels. 

I ended up with this crackle instead for the outer border. It is the same as the arrows. It is less busy.

I quilted it with a rolling hills type of design. Very simple and fast.

Here is the back. The strip piece was supposed to be used for a hanging sleeve according to the directions. I am giving it to charity so it didn't need a hanging sleeve. I just incorporated it into the back. This is where the daisy fabric ended up.

Green binding.

I'm no good at those real nice folded quilt shots showing the binding all pretty.