creatively speaking this week, light blue hexie spirals and halloween quilts X 2

 

welcome to this week's creativity round up. I want to be beading, painting and writing but my body won't cooperate. Luckily I could still sew, so, on with the show... 

Starting with the 10th Hexi spiral block this year, this time in light pale blues

I kind of like it! Surprised myself with that! I finished hand sewing the hexies while watching the premier of this season's Amazing Race (and sewed two in the middle wrong, having to rip out and resew

last time DH said he liked them turned a different way (I was too dazzled by all the spiraling to notice)

so here the block is turned 

Remember this Halloween 2025 start on the design wall?

not sewn together yet

I wondered how the scraps would look as small hexies in a row...

Ooooo I like them!

which led me to big hexies to quilt-as-you-go

batting and hexie cut same size, backing larger for each

and fussy cutting into my Halloween print stash

24 times should make a good sized wall quilt. Look at that fancy witch, the owl, that sassy cat! 

one finished block, sew 24 together and done! 

two finished quilted bound blocks  and 22 to go, then arrange and sew together, done! 

see the backing is larger to pull to the front and finish after quilting?

We put up Halloween decorations this week, and I began hanging halloween quilts from previous years... 

I'll show others later... glad to see the end of pale blue and green as focus colors at RSC this month

a "nature" shot seen on my walk this week, of pale green

with two gratuitous flamingos and a solar up light  

I like these fall grasses in Colorado. More of a pale yellowish green 

that's it for this week y'all

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Creatively speaking this week.... challenge to use light green/blue and moving into Halloween!

 

I enjoy working in colors of the season so I pulled out the bag of halloween fabric scraps and played!

it's always messy in the beginning, and I love seeing scraps laid out in piles according to size... 

Now what? I think

I get to know the prints, think of what I can make, I start sewing littles to littles

I get lost in the "scrap puzzle" as I think of it

looking so closely at it is one thing, but it will be viewed from more of a distance so I try to get some components up on the design wall. 

A lot of my halloween scraps are dark, so how to introduce some color? Some orange/lime/gold/ 

Improv geese are always good, color geese and dark halloween prints around them let them float

there are always blocks in the wings... and I think a few pinwheels or 4 patches would look good. Where did I put that candy block I wanted to try? 

 

I finished up this block for RSC each month, in light green to go with the light blue. 

I am not inspired nor jazzed by these colors but the hexie spiral in light pale blues might be more fun, hope to share that next week. 

Along the way I made a free form hexie scrap piece with pale color plus garden prints, I think I will applique this onto a landscape fabric for a tote or apron front...

It hasn't been pressed yet, and I can't seem to leave it alone, what if I add another blue one here???

The ones that look orange here are actually golden yellows, the pale green batiks seem to wash away

anyway it was fun to make, and I never applique hexie forms so that will be different

I like this pattern but it's hard to find the actual pattern to print out online...

and around the neighborhood, pale or light blue and greens are as uninspiring to me in real life as in the scrap challenge to use them in fabric

I chose this view for the smoky way the mountains look this week, and the smoky pale blue of the sky

I've moved on to wanting Autumn colors... 

the rocks have a lot of colors if you look closely but each color is very pale.... I guess I like a more saturated color palette most of the time. 

But.... it's all good

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sewing Saturday.... peach wine and ghosties

 

to start this week, I finished the Bats and Boos quilt (pattern fatquartershop) complete with binding, sleeve and label. It's on the wall now. Earliest I've ever finished a halloween quilt! 

Along with quilting straight lines to stabilize the quilt, the free motion quilting was leaves, vines and spirals

then some ghost buttons were added for fun texture

can you find 6 of them?

the backing was older holiday fabric, another to make a sleeve, and as it finishes at 40 1/4" square, was just a bit too large for my backing fabric

I pulled the back around to the front while quilting, and liked the look, so I trimmed the top, pulled the back to the front and hand sewed it in place. On three sides, the top wasn't long enough so I put another fabric binding up there.

fussy cut ghosts, fussy cut boo pieced in

The color of the month at Soscrappy is orange so of course my mind turned to wine...

pattern source Hoffman fabrics

I call this one peach wine since it's in a peachy fabric... 

with an angel print for a label... "Heavenly Peach"?

the second bottle is a darker orange fabric with a lovely horse print label...

"stallion apple wine"  ?

the cellar is almost full, just 3 months of color to go, 6 more bottles at least

I spent more time this week painting, the post with my paintings is HERE

and watching elephants, puppies, donkeys and podcasts on youtube. oh and listening to pumpkin jazz 

and writing posts, I Like list on Thursday, painting on Friday and today with you all...

bye, y'all

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"Halloween Row " quilt of 2020

 

"Halloween Row"   21.5" X48"

This year's Halloween quilt, and I have done one each year since we got married (26 years) is done and hanging up on the wall! 

I am so happy with how it turned out!

I won't go into all the design decisions, but I started it a while back with Joy's magic circle blocks and my scrap bag of halloween scraps, just for fun!

You never know what something will turn into! After I made them I started wondering what else I could put with them, and...
 

I like how the quilting turned out, emphasizing the circle blocks.  I used metallic sparkly copper, blue, purple and black threads to quilt it so it shimmers in person. On the above photo look for applique ghosts and ghost button embellishments, bat appliques, and skeleton button

I decided to use an older solid fabric for the backing, as I get precious about wall quilts and not using prettier fabrics on the backs  that are not meant to be seen. You can see quilting on solid though!

You can see  I did use a cute scrap with tweety and sylvester for the sleeve however. I was going to bind it in black but changed to dark purple on sides, and a purple batik for top and bottom. Happy.

Then time for beading!!! I had all kinds of things I wanted to use for fringe.

I use a thread made for quilting, a thin eyed longer needle and bury the knots. I looked thru my alphabet and couldn't find O's so I used Q's for the word BOO at the bottom, and got busy during a chat with Joy one afternoon. A zoom bee sort of!

I had the cutest square sequins to scatter in the bottom row but decided it didn't add much

Detail shots of the fringe... skulls, hearts, gold balls and ghosts!

hope you've enjoyed looking at this with me. 

I learned how to make the little blocks and that I enjoyed orienting my scrap strips row by row... 

I haven't done that before

I love using a collection in quilts! That I've done often, to see your pretty fabrics in one place. I love doing seasonal quilts too, and bringing them out every year. 

Funny but each time I make one I say, this is my favorite!

 

 

now, on to the next to on the wall... I've been busy sewing borders on this week, piecing in those tiny geese units, keeping the color and scale balanced... more tomorrow on those. They came from the cut off half square triangle units from the lozenge blocks!

you never know where one block will lead you!

for more Halloween quilts from other years scroll down  HERE 

 

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