Eerie Nights Blog Hop

Welcome to Day 3 of the 

Eerie Nights Blog Hop 

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I am so excited to share with you my EERIE project, but first a big thank you goes out to Marian Pena of Seams to Be Sew for organizing this hop.  And another heart-felt thank you goes to the Amy Warner of Sew Incredibly Crazy for hosting.  And not to be forgotten, a huge thank you to our sponsors for providing the great prizes in our giveway.    

It's no secret Halloween is one of my favorite holidays.  I love the weather, the smells, the spooky displays, and of course the spirit of fun. So I was thrilled when Marian announced she was organizing a Halloween Blog Hop and I had to join.

I thought long and hard about my project.  I wasn't sure if I wanted to make a full-size quilt or a wall quilt or just a table runner.  As I was rifling through my Halloween fabric stash, thinking about all the traditional Halloween characters, I wondered what types of quilt each monster slept under.  Voila!  I had my project.

At first I was going to make a wall hanging of four monsters under their quilts, and then it was five, and finally I decided to chuck it and make a full-size quilt of six.

  All of the monsters' quilts are pieced.  

Frankie = Crazy Patchwork Quilt

Dracula = Irish Chain

Mummy = Flying Geese

Skeleton = Pieced Squares

Witch = Spider Web

Wolfie = Wonky Strips

 

The monsters are appliqued onto the quilt using the raw edge applique method.  Because I wanted their features to really stand out, I outlined their faces and hands in black several times. 

To give more of an illusion that my monsters were tucked in for the night, I added a topper with an owl sitting on a branch under a big yellow moon.  To even the quilt out, I added a bottom panel of orange pumpkins against a black background.  These panels used the raw-edged appliqued method as well.

This quilt was a lot of fun for me to make because I made it up as I went.  I drew all of the characters and pieced their individual quilts in a haphazard manner, purposefully making them all a little off-kilter to give them an eerie appearance.

I hope you've enjoyed seeing my quilt as much as I did making it.  Be sure to visit the other bloggers who are revealing their Eerie projects today.

Monday, October 24, 2016
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