These simple Halloween quilts are sure to make the grandkids happy. Ages 10, 7 and 4. They love the holidays, what kid doesn't? Especially the ones where candy is the main dish.
For some crazy reason I've been collecting Halloween prints for over a year. It all started with a Halloween fabric clearance sale. Not too much you can do with a handful of FQ's. So what's a gal to do but buy more when you can find them cheap.
Each quilt has the same prints but not in the same amount or order.
Each quilt has a different border so the grandkids will know which one is their quilt. I opted not to add labels and names to the quilts. My daughter can help them decided who gets what color. As sure as I choose the colors they will be unhappy with my selection.
Most of the fabrics are Halloween prints. This white cat print is just too cute. It would have been nice to have it in yardage for the backing but Walmart doesn't carry Halloween prints in yardage.
I had to add some non novelty prints in order to make the quilts bigger. Of course after I did this Walmart put out a few Halloween FQ's.,,, and I bought them anyway.
The leftover border fabric for each quilt was added to the backing.
Each quilt has the same Joann's black stripe binding. 100% machine bound with black serger thread. I also used the serger thread for the quilting.
A good portion of yesterday afternoon was spent designing a Halloween pillow pattern to use up some of the scraps. It has been so long since I actually designed and made anything besides large squares. It felt good, so I designed a few more quilts to help use up some of the solid black scraps accumulated over the last year.
Until next time...
I hope you find time to stitch up something sweet!
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You are such a good grandma to make special Halloween quilts for your grandkids! Love all of them. I will look forward to seeing the new pillow designs too. Kaye tkmattson@hotmail.com
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