Halloween Quilt~ "Something Wicked Blog Hop"

Welcome to all of you ghouls, witches, warlocks, goblins, ghosts, bats, werewolves and more to the Wicked Blog Hop. Carol of Just Let Me Quilt is the Queen of Halloween (hey that rhymes 😁) or maybe I should say the Witch or Ghoul of Halloween? Anyhow, Halloween is her thing and she even has a creepy bunny that she displays each year to prove it 😂. Now me, I have never been a huge Halloween buff, but I do like seeing how creative people get with their displays and costumes. 

I normally don't make Halloween stuff either, but my friend, Julie, happened to give me a bag of some Halloween fabrics in all different prints and sizes and I had seen a pattern that I thought was so cool looking that I wanted to try making a quilt with that pattern. So I decided to use the Halloween fabrics that Julie gave me along with the lime green, black glittery fabric with eyes that I had already and I used orange fabric that I had for the binding too. I just love how cool and interesting this quilt turned out! I have ideas for making this quilt again with other fabrics. Thanks Julie for the Halloween fabrics!

The pattern is BQ3 from Maple Island Quilts, designed by Debbie Bowles. It has 2 sizes of blocks and I made the smaller block size as I wouldn't have enough of the Halloween fabric to go any larger. I got scrappy with this because of the Halloween prints that I had. Luckily I had enough of the lime green fabric and the black glittery fabric with the green eyes. This is one way to set the quilt. You can play around and set the quilt in other ways too.

There are other BQ patterns too from Maple Island Quilts as well and they are all such interesting looking quilts, but easy to do. Hint: You can also go to Sewing with Nancy on YouTube for the episode on how to make this very quilt. Debbie shows you how to make the larger blocks for this quilt.

I just had to use this font for the blog hop too. The font is a free download called Werewolf Moon,

which is perfect for this blog hop. 🐺🌕(But apparently you might not see the font if you are reading this on a phone or tablet, except in the photos only. The font shows up on my desktop computer, but not my tablet 🙄).

The whole quilt measures  45.75" x 54.25".

The fabric with the eyes 👀 has pairs of eyes set far apart on the fabric, so no matter how it was cut, the eyes were no longer a pair, but still look a bit spooky, mysterious and creepy as they peer out at you around the quilt. I feel the Addams Family theme song should be sung here 😄. I bought the eye 👀 fabric at a thrift store a few years ago. There was maybe 2 yards of it? Have no clue who designed or made this fabric print, but I like it. 

This quilt was donated to Project Linus, in time for some child to enjoy before Halloween.

I used a purple and black polar fleece for the backing. No batting. The purple is much darker in person. I find purple a hard color to photograph as it photographs lighter or more blue usually. Polar fleece is a lint catcher too as you can see 😜!

Thanks Carol for another Wickedly Fun Blog Hop!!!

Check out the other Wicked Blog Hop participants:

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Just Let Me Quilt

Just Sew Quilter

Sew Many Yarns

Patchouli Moon Studio

High Road Quilter

OCTOBER 22

Quilt Schmilt

Selina Quilts

Quilted Snail

Karrin’s Crazy World

Scrapdash

OCTOBER 23

A Quiltery

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Beaquilter

Homespun Hannah's Blog

OCTOBER 24

MooseStashQuilting

Ms P Designs USA

Quilted Delights

Quilting Between the Rails

Daryl

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