Hey Boo! A Halloween Quilt

Hey Boo! is a Halloween quilt made using Hey Boo! fabrics by Lella Boutique and Moda fabrics. I choose the pink and purple fabrics from the line with a little bit of green thrown in on the pumpkin fabrics. Then used the dark gray fabric for the slashing fabric. Originally, I planned to use the dark gray fabric for the background fabric,  it decided it would be too dark. Instead, I used a variety of light, low volume fabrics for the background fabrics in my blocks. The pattern from It’s Sew Emma is Peppermint Bark. The block in this pattern is 12 1/2 inches, but I enlarged it to 16 1/2 inches to showcase the fabrics better. 

The blocks require three different prints in each block. I made each block separately as I went along, choosing the fabrics as I went. Each new block, I used one fabric from the previous block and chose  two new coordinating fabrics to go with it. This way, the fabrics were used throughout the quilt and the colors flowed easily through the quilt. 

I chose a quilting design with a pumpkin and gray thread and really like the results. It is quilted by Quilt and Thread in Canal Fulton, Ohio. The binding is a pink striped fabric from the Hey Boo! fabric line and the backing is the pumpkin fabrics on white. 

Next up, I want to make this pattern again using the fabric line, Peppermint Bark, by Basic Grey, for Christmas. 

Christmas Pickle Quilt

Christmas Pickle Quilt

After finding a picture of this quilt in an ad, I collected as many different green fabrics as I could find. It is paper pieced and I used the exact pattern from the book. Different greens were specifically selected for each block with red, gold and purple accents. I mitered the gold, red and green borders. The backing is a fabric with green pine needles on cream. Funny thing happened when I blocked the quilt--the red fabrics bled through to the backing. Very carefully, I used a Q-tip dipped in bleach to remove the red. It worked!

Pattern: Christmas Pickle Pattern from Home for the Holidays by Lynda Milligan and Nancy Smith
Quilting: by Joyce Coburn
Batting: Cotton
Finished: December 22, 2010
Size: 50 x 62
Quilt Shows: 2011 Lake FarmPark Quilt Show in Kirtland, Ohio and 2012 NQS Quilt Show in Columbus, Ohio

2011 Lake FarmPark Quilt Show

Stained Glass Trip Around the World Quilt

My inspiration came from a quilt on the front cover of Quilter's World magazine, February 2007. My objective was to use the leftover fabrics from my Birthday Baskets quilt. I chose my favorite colors from the collection of fat quarters given to me by my friends with a request for Amish-like mottled fabrics--not solids!

Black strips create the stained glass window effect with 10 different colors of 2 1/2 inch fabric strips. There is a black border and binding to complete it into a wall hanging.

It is a beautiful quilt that brightens my office. 

 

Bevan Blooms

Using the fabrics leftover from Sara and Josh's wedding quilt, I made Bevan Blooms, a courthouse steps block. The pattern from American Patchwork and Quilting magazine, October 2006, must be very carefully constructed by matching each row with the previous one. 

Quilted by Joyce Coburn

81 inches x 94 inches