Showing posts with label halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label halloween. Show all posts

27 October 2012

bloggers quilt festival

What's up?

It's time for bloggers quilt festival fall 2012, hosted by the lovely Amy. And we have a quilt we want to share with you all:

quilt name: Ghastly triangles
quilt measurements: 50" by 70"
special techniques: using a 60 degree ruler for the 8" unfinished triangle patches
hand-quilted by myself: marit, on quilters dream request cotton batting
best category: favorite hand-quilted quilt / favorite throw quilt


It's hand-quilted with perle no16, using an embroidery needle. If you are a regular visitor to my blog, you may know that this summer was my summer of making triangle quilts.

Ghastly triangles is my 7th and last triangle quilt started this summer. They are all lap size and quilted by hand. Six of the are living with me. As you understand, I got quite carried away, having so much fun with these big patches on my quilt batting design wall... 


My challenge was to use fabric from stash. The last bigger piece of the Ghastly family ended up on the back:


Have fun visiting more great quilts on the blogger quilt festival! You will find lots of lovely quilts over here (kind of trick and treating from the comfort of your own home... don't you think?)


(p.s. if you would like to see more of my triangle quilts, you will find them by clicking on the triangle label under this post)

Thank you for stopping by!

13 July 2012

friday the thirteenth...


on a cold and rainy (summer) day


the Ghastly family started to whisper


what about us?


There's new and fun prints out of the family gallery. The question is of course, to buy or not to buy?
I thought there's only one way to know if I need more fabric to make the family into a quilt. And then I started cutting. 


The question is still unanswered. Do I need a family gallery print for the back?

; )

Take care on this cold and rainy (hope not) friday...

21 October 2011

friday finish


Half a year ago, we had a challenge at my quilt guild. We brought a fat quarter of a challenge / ugly fabric, and then swapped. This week we brought the results for show and tell.

I was lucky to get this fun halloween print with witch hats and pumpkins. It was a nice big piece, so I ended up using it for the bars in this coin table runner. The rest of fabric are scraps from my Ghastly spiderweb and a halloween themed charm pack.

The runner ended up 22" * 46".


This chinese coins / bars variation is a fun and versatile pattern, and I have been using it a lot lately. I love to add a bit of asymmetry to the layout.

Wish you all a lovely weekend!