Just Because Quilts: Out-of-the-Dark Blog Hop

It's fast approaching Halloween and I am so excited to share with you my projects for the Out-of-the-Dark Blog Hop created and hosted by Joan of Moosetash Quilting. It's always so much fun to participate in this hop. I love seeing the creations of my fellow quilters and what delightfully fiendish projects they've created.

This year I started off with a banner. My only problem with this project was knowing when to stop. I made the banner out of colorful felt triangle pieces, approximately 9" x 12", and sewed on the face pieces, staggering the triangles up and down to fit next to each other nicely when placed together. All of them have button eyes to give them more color.

This was a quick and easy project to do, but who do I leave out? In the end, I made all of the Halloween icons we have come to love and expect at Halloween, and thought I could always delete a couple to make the banner shorter. I backed each triangle with another felt triangle, which I clipped to string the line, and separated each monsters with a trio of wooden balls between them.

Just some of the monsters in the line up are:

a batty bat

an old witch

Frankie

Wolfie

the mummy

a ghost

These hauntingly handsome fellows would also make a cute table runner.

Quite a parade of fiendish faces to greet this year's Trick-or-Treaters. I think I like the witch the best. Which character is your favorite?

And what is Halloween without a visit from some Ghastlies?

I really miss these guys. This has got to be one of the best Halloween fabrics ever made, but I understand they are not making this fiendish family fabric any longer. What a shame. They were my kind of people.

I use a bullet journal every day to keep me on track. The covers of my journals can get quite abused, so I make covers for them. In my stash I have some bits and pieces of leftover projects made from the Ghastlies line, so I quickly made myself a Halloween cover.

Agnes and friends thought it was a wonderful idea.

There are dozens of tutorials on YouTube that explain much better than I can how to make a book cover, so I won't bore you with the details of how I made this one, and let you choose from YouTube which one you like best.

I hope you've enjoyed my dark creations. Agnes and I are so happy you stopped by and hope you will come again soon. We'll leave a candle in the attic window.

Thank you, Joan, for hosting this fab-BOO-lous hop! You are truly the Queen of Halloween!

For more gruesome treats, visit the ghouls below to see what they have created. Happy Haunting!

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