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We all have & see fabric we love. We also all have patterns. I have been thinking about how fabric is what inspires me to sew. Sometimes it's the pattern, but often for me, it's the fabric. I quilts so I can have fabric. I see a wonderful group of fabric, and then I find a project to use it.
You might be the same.
I'm kicking off my new series of Fabric inspired sew alongs with Halloween! I was bitten by the fabric bug .. want to join me?
When I saw Cat's Bats & Jacks I bought it right away, the fun kitties, darling pumpkins the cute bats, (not all bats are cute right?) and the word fabric got my attention.
And as my life often goes, one charm pack has led to this crazy idea, that I hope you'll love!
I wanted to tell you a bit about it... Because fabric drives my creativity, for the Halloween Kick off I’m going to
- Use a Layer Cake, a Charm Pack and solid fabric to do a set of projects from my books
- I’ve also designed other projects in the past and I’ll show you those too.
- Each week on Thursday from now until Halloween I’ll show some of the projects, tips and a few videos to inspire you to create a set of Halloween projects for your home.
FIRST I’ll share a lot of the projects today so you can decide what you want to make, there will be a few small super easy 'SURPRISE' projects along the way!
What You Need:
- Halloween Fabric - Cats Bats Jacks .. I am using a layer cake + a Charm pack
- Dot Dot Boo! is another great line, less of it has Halloween prints so you an use your leftovers anywhere!
- My BOOKS - Triangle Book and my Machine Quilting book. And if you never appliqued get my Applique book too
- Green solid fabric - 1 1/2 yd - I used the Acid Green HERE, but these are on sale in SEPT
- Grey with Black Dots - 2 yds so you can do borders without piecing. left overs can go in other projects
- Batting, I have the squares in 8" and 10" and a bigger batting too
- Aurifil 50 wt Thread CLICK to see some on sale!
First up I created a 3 x 3 quilt from my Triangle Book with wide sashing, am SO excited about this quilt.
I'll be quilting it and sharing how I did that in a future post!
Kitty #1... or Kitty #2..... or both?
That is the question! Using the layercake of Cats Bats Jacks and piece of black solid
I'll will show you how I quilt these in a future post. I can see a whole quilt of them side by side.. so darling!
PATTERN In my Machine Quilting book
This is the first of several table runner ideas. I took the Chevron quilt from my Triangle book and used the charm pack to make this
In a future post I'll show you how I audition for the setting
I LOVE my Stitched pattern for using a jelly roll! Either make your own jelly roll or buy one of these DARLING Halloween rolls
White Dot fabric is a basic, FIND HERE
I'm offering my pattern for $7.00 as a download pattern...
This table runner is SO Fun and showcases cut buttons!
CLICK to DOWNLOAD my FREE PATTERN called Wonderful Pumpkins
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Another fun table runner I've done is Spooky Delights!
If you don't applique you can make just the pumpkin ends!
TRUE confession time.... I collect Halloween fabric.
I bet you are VERY surprised by that.. (insert eye roll)
But I am very particular about the fabric, so this basket holds what I've collected over a few years. I want to break some of this out into a quilt... not for this time but it's definitely on my list to use it up for a Halloween bed quilt. Then I can collect NEW fabric ... there is always a plan going here ... always a plan....
I have a few other smaller projects I'll show you over the next 5 weeks, this is going to be REALLY fun!
Let me know in the comments if you are excited about this new Series inspired by Fabric, I am working on plans for the next set of projects!
Get Ready with these supplies, I used solids or basics with the Halloween so that you can more if you need it.
- Halloween Fabric - Cats Bats Jacks .. I am using a layer cake + a Charm pack
- Dot Dot Boo! is another great line, less of it has Halloween prints so you an use your leftovers anywhere!
- My BOOKS - Triangle Book and my Machine Quilting book. And if you never appliqued get my Applique book too
- Green solid fabric - 1 1/2 yd - I used the Acid Green HERE, but these are on sale in SEPT
- Grey with Black Dots - 2 yds so you can do borders without piecing. left overs can go in other projects
- Batting, I have the squares in 8" and 10" and a bigger batting too
- Aurifil 50 wt Thread CLICK to see some on sale!
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