Trick or treat is in the bag! Of all the loot bag ideas, our Halloween loot bag is the most important fashion accessory for October 31st. It uses up many scraps created from making this week’s Halloween door quilt. Generally trick or treat loot bags are often quite informal things.…
Yesterday, we finished embellishing the our Halloween door quilt with some fancy threads and stitches. Today, our spooky little scene is free-motion quilting with some spooky air currents. After all, the wind should always blow a little mystery into Halloween night. Make a quilt sandwich with a backing, quilt batting, and…
Let’s discover what a few decorative stitches and Holoshimmer thread can do to our Halloween door quilt! Yesterday, we learned how to set the scene for our charming, spooky, cheerful welcome for Halloween night by creating a charming owl to perch on a appliqued tree branch and bask in the…
Let’s continue sewing our Halloween door quilt: today owl be sewing ya! Okay, enough with the bad puns, we’ve got an owl to make and decorate. With right sides together, sew the muslin and the owl body fabrics together. Use the same fabric for the face piece. Back the eye…
“By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Open locks, Whoever knocks!” — the second Witch, MacBeth, William Shakespeare The days of colorful leaves and crisp fall air has arrived, and that can mean only one thing: quick and easy quilt patterns: Happy Hall-Whoo-Ween Door Quilt. Halloween…