Fall 2011 Blogger's Festival Quilt

I LOVE looking at all the quilts in the Blogger's Quilt Festival and I hope that you will enjoy my offering. This is my Swooning Over Halloween quilt. It is a based on the uber-popular Swoon quilt by Camille of Thimble Blossoms.



I knew that I wanted this quilt to fit on the wall next to the fireplace so that limited the size. I scaled down the blocks and then went to town with my Halloween fabrics.

These are my favorite blocks.... each one features a Halloween creature that I fussy cut from a Nancy Wolff fabric I've been hoarding for quite a while.

Oh no... a ghost!



A smiling skeleton...


A devious devil...


A grinning black cat..


My long arm quilting gal, Cass, did a great job on this quilt. I wish it showed up better but hopefully you can see how she stitched a ton of different Halloween motifs into this quilt - pumpkins, a spider web, a spider, a devil, a skull, a pitchfork - just to name a few.



This quilt will be the centerpiece of my Halloween decorating for years to come.

Thanks Amy for hosting this event-- you do a fantastic job and it brings so much enjoyment to so many!

Happy stitching-
carol fun

Blogger's Quilt Festival - Hot Flash #914

Here is my entry for this edition of the Blogger's Quilt Festival. I call it Hot Flash #914 and yes I did make it during that "special" change of life - LOL!



As I talked about earlier this week, I love brights and I love novelty fabrics and this one has a ton of them. I made the quilt in 2005 and it was shown at the NQA show in Columbus Ohio that summer. About a month after the show I got a letter from Klaudeen Hansen to ask if they could photograph it and include in in the 2006 Quilt Art Engagement Calendar. I was so flattered and immediately contacted her to say yes. They took a wonderful picture of this quilt and I was so excited when I saw it in the calendar.

This quilt is modeled on a antique quilt from the 1860's. A friend of mine was making a reproduction of this quilt using fabrics that were representative of that era and I admired the graphic quality of the quilt, but it wasn't my palette, so I did my version.



I love the princess feather center and all those log cabin blocks were foundation pieced - lots of papers to remove but very accurate. To put my own touch on this quilt I used a different novelty fabric in the center of each log cabin block.

There is a dragon which reminds me of my youngest son's fascination with these mythical creatures...


A horseshoe for good luck...


Tony the Tiger, a nod to my youth...


Of course, a polka dot chicken...


And not to be forgotten, ELVIS!


Enjoy all the entries in the Blogger's Quilt Festival, I know I will!

Happy stitching!
carol fun