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:
