Thursday, November 4, 2021

 I follow the quilt blogger Jo Kramer, and ever since she showed her beautiful quilt Halloween Hoopla (which was published in American Patchwork and Quilting), I have wanted to make it.

I had no Halloween fabric at all.  I'm not a big Halloween fan, but I loved the quilt.  I think it's basically a scrap quilt in Halloween colors.  So I bought jelly rolls and fat quarters  of Halloween fabric (mostly cats and bats) and made the quilt.  It is a beautiful quilt, but I had to use my seam ripper a lot!  I constantly got some of the blocks turned the wrong way.  But in the end, I finished it.  My quilt is a little smaller than the original:




I love the purple, black, green, and gray so much!  The orange and yellow add a nice contrast, but I don't like those colors.  I think I put in a little too much yellow.  I was really focused on using black, so I kinda wish that I had used more purple.  I even  finished it the week before Halloween.  My long arm quilter, Joann was super nice and got it quilted in a week with an awesome spider web design.  My first (and probably only) Halloween Quilt. 


I also made a little Pumpkin Table runner:

 



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