Happy Halloween everyone! Is this anyone else’s favorite holiday, or just mine? I love getting to be a little silly, dress-up as something fun and eat lots and lots of candy. Basically Halloween is a day where we all get to be kids again. No gifts to buy, no stress or messy kitchen, just plain old silly fun!
When this line of fabric came first across my desk, I was immediately inspired to make a fun throw quilt. But I knew that the prints would also lend themselves really well to wall decor or a door quilt. Instead of just settling for one, I figured why not make a pattern for all three!
The video quilt tutorial we made to accompany this project covers how to make the lap quilt, which encompasses all the techniques you'll need for assembling the smaller projects.
To get us started, let's take a close-up look at the main panel which helped inspire all three of these fun projects. So spooky!
In the video tutorial I cover some tips on how to work with panels and how we added a border around the panels in these projects to help make sure they were the correct size for the quilt center.
Next up, we show you our favorite method for making Flying Geese. With this tip, they come out perfect! You can check out the ruler I use in the video here.
There are a lot of points and seams in this project... To help, I cover how to press seams open in a way that helps the blocks lay flat when finished. I use one of our favorite tools, The Strip Stick to make pressing seams open a snap!
And here's a fun peek at the block center before we added on the last pieced borders.
Next up, it's time to add the last border onto the pieced blocks.
Here are the pieced and small panel blocks finished and ready for assembly. After this, we just need to finish the center block.
To finish the Center Block, we need to add a pieced border to the top and bottom of the large panel block.
And look at that, now we finally have all of our blocks ready for assembly!
Time to finish up the quilt top and get this quilted!
Here is the finished quilt back made by Monica Croom who quilted it with Halloween motifs! It is spooky, cute and ready for me to cuddle under it tonight for Halloween.
I hope you've enjoyed the walk through for this project as much as we enjoyed designing and making it! Be sure to check out this video tutorial along with all of our other great videos on our YouTube channel. While your there make sure to subscribe and hit the bell to be notified every time we post a new video.
Happy Halloween!
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