Not Afraid of Color: creatively speaking this week, some brown scraps, some handwork, some Halloween finishes

Saturday, October 18, 2025

creatively speaking this week, some brown scraps, some handwork, some Halloween finishes

Happy to report two finishes this week!

Above is a close up of the smaller Halloween scrap quilt. I did machine binding of a batik, adding a zig zag with gold rayon thread. I quilted it best I could with my teeny little machine, and mostly the walking foot.

I took most of this out of the other one that got finished.... the busiest bits.... and it's the size of a big placemat. I think I'll either use it for my lap when eating in front of the TV, or as a cover for my bedsize table.

I love the mix of prints. Here is a picture of both on the design wall

the one on the left originally included most of that on the right.... but I like this pared down version of rows. I started with bits and pieces, like freeform geese, 4patches, odd triangles, just sewing to see what came up.... then when I got down to the business of order.... it turned into rows. Some closeups

I've hoarded that row of kids for years.... see the crystals I ironed in place at the end? They are scattered along the length of the quilt. It's quilted with some metallics, and some rayons, some coton threads. Rows sometimes added improv fashion and curvy

I had fun with thin inserts, waving ghosties, crystals around Trick or Treat at the top sparkle. Metallic blue threads lend movement. All fun to do

I keep my fusible crystals in bead holders, and pick them up with those cool bent tweezers! I love a tool that is whimsical. I made a stamped bag to hold all the crystals in

stamping on fabric is fun

hanging by the back door

I am sewing the basted brown hexies together at night... the focus color of the month at rainbow scrap challenge is brown scraps....

my friend Cindy said they look like a cup of cocoa with cream swirled in! I like them!

a few are sewn together, I tend to try new ways each time to sew them, always by hand with a whip- stitch. I liked the previous colors in pastels, so I went ahead and cut out lighter browns (tans) to make another spiral of those to go with the previous pastels