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:

 

 Well the Sumter County Fair was this week.  I entered a quilt, and my 15 year old daughter, Brenna entered a Youth Quilt.  She got Best in Show!  Her quilt is a Jenny Doan pattern of  Carpenter's Star.   Brenna used a Tula Pink layer cake called "Linework" and decided to use a strong background color of Dusty Red.  Boy doesn't the background help the block to pop!  I am so proud of her.

 My last two quilt finishes:

Shibori Stars made with Debbie Maddy's beautiful dyed Japanese Fabric.  It is living on Kieran's bed at the moment:

And my Calico Bee Hive Quilt.  This quilt has been a long time in the works.  At least over 2 years.  Sewing all those little corners was tedious!  But I love the quilt.

I'm still working a few quilts to finish up hopefully soon.  My daughter's Graduation quilt and a King size quilt for my very own bed.

 Got quilts??!

Quilts that I have made for sale.    Recently, my husband asked about selling some of my quilts.   Most quilters know that quilting can get expensive, and one way to pay for the hobby is to sell some quilts.

So here are two quilts that I would like to sell:

The First quilt is A Hundred Patch Scrap Quilt I made it in 2019.   It is 67"x87".  My daughter has used it for her double bed.  It is a used and loved quilt.  No stains.  The backing fabric of the quilt is black with multi colored diamonds. $350

The second quilt is smaller lap sized quilt 57"x74".   It is call a Plus Sign quilt.  The backing on this quilt is a riot of color from scrap blocks that I have made in the past. $150

If you are interested in giving these quilts a loving home.  Please email me at:

mcgill@ullrey.net.

Thanks!

 Yikes I have posted in my blog in a really long time.  So here is a picture of the Christmas quilt that I completed this year:

Christmas Diamond Quilt. 

 I made it with a Christmas layer cake by Kate Spain (Aurora) and a Jenny Doan tutorial with Missouri Star Quilt Company.  It is based on the HST triangle block called a "Depression" block.

This is what laying out blocks on my "design wall", a/k/a floor looks like at my house:

My sister, Kirsten, had a baby boy, Asher Jason Schwartz in February.

 I made him a baby quilt called "Feather Bed Quilt" by the fabulous Anna Marie Horner.  Seriously, one of the coolest quilts I have made in a long time.  The camera on my phone is terrible, and one of the reasons, I don't post pictures much, but I will post a picture anyway.  Trust me, it looks awesome in person!

I have been following the blog of fellow quilter Wedding Dress Blue for serveral years.  She has great free scrappy quilt patterns on her blog.  I have made the enormous 100 patch quilt and several mini Calico Rose quilts for baby quilts.  This summer she is doing a Irish Stars Quilt Along.  I was already in the process of making an Irish Chain quilt, so I am so excited to join and put some stars in my Irish Chain quilt.  In my opinion, you can never have too many stars!


 

https://weddingdressblue.wordpress.com/irish-star-quiltalong/


Here are some of the quilts I have made from her tutorials

I meant to post these pictures earlier.  Two quilts that I finished back in the spring.

I made a quilt for a friend's daughter, Betty Jane who recently turned 8 yrs.

Then a dear friend, Chris Courson, became a grandmother for the first time.  So in celebration, I made a baby quilt to welcome Shoshanna.