Welcome to the final stop on the Halloween Hoppers blog tour! If you’ve not dropped by before, this is the home of the Epic Halloween Quilt-Along, above, but before we get to that, I want to share a simpler pattern.
For those of you who don’t know me, my background is in science, and so I often make science-inspired quilts. The first science quilt pattern I wrote was for Potions, a quilt inspired by glassware in chemistry labs. As it happens, though, this also makes a great Halloween quilt, as shown in this little pillow!
This particular pattern is pieced entirely using traditional piecing techniques; no templates or paper piecing is involved. I am, however, a big fan of paper piecing, and many of my patterns do involve that, like Spooky Spider:
This is a block that I designed when I was trying to put together blocks for the Epic Halloween Quilt, and so it comes in three different sizes.
The Epic Halloween Quilt itself was inspired by a collection of Halloween fabrics in an unusual color palette that I found at my local quilt shop one year. While I enjoy Halloween, orange and black never appealed to me all that much, and so I never saw myself making a Halloween quilt. These grays and muted pinks, purples, and mints, though, really spoke to me. And so they came home with me, and the process of coming up with the perfect use for them began. In the end, I settled on my own version of a sampler quilt (something else I never thought I’d make).
I included a few Halloween blocks from other designers, so there is not a single pattern for this quilt. However, it was so popular when I posted it that I put together a quilt-along and lots of quilters have gone on to make their own versions!
The quilt-along is still up on my website, so if you would like to make your own version of this quilt you can do so! Start with the first post to find links to all the patterns, including those by other designers like the bats and the ring of coffins seen above!
A number of the blocks are also available as individual patterns. You can find all my Halloween patterns in the shop! Below are links to all the other blogs on this hop, so be sure to check them out for more spooky fun and inspiration.
Monday, October 19
Samelia’s Mum
Just Because Quilts
MooseStashQuilting
Musing From the Grove
Ms P Designs USA
Morning Glory Designs
Tuesday, October 20
Songbird Designs
Elizabeth Coughlin Designs
Slice of Pi Quilts
Just Let Me Quilt
Appliqués Quilts and More
Phoebe Moon
Wednesday, October 21
Words & Stitches
Kathy’s kwilts and more
Count It All Joy
Quilted Diary
Flying Parrot Quilts
Seams To Be Sew
Wow … your Epic Halloween Quilt is truly epic! I love the soft, muted colors … perfect for the eerie holiday! It’s really stunning! And thanks for sharing the smaller projects, too! Happy Halloween! 🙂
I downloaded these patterns a years ago, and have never made it yet. Seeing it again now, makes me want to find them and get started on it. This is absolutely fabulous! Thanks for sharing it with us!
Your Epic Halloween Quilt is amazing! The colors are fantastic too.
What wonderful patterns. The Halloween fabric collection is more my style, too, with the pink, purples, and blacks. Great work!
Oh my gosh, I love those fabric choices! It gives it a spooky feel and your blocks are awesome. Thanks for sharing!
WOW these are wonderful. your quilt is truly something. thanks for sharing.
Your potions pillow is adorable! Your color choices are spot on ! Absolutely love the epic Halloween quilt! I bet it was a lot of fun to make.
Such good spooky fun!!!
Your quilt block and that Epic Halloween quilt is amazing. Love love love it.
My brain is singing after seeing your Epic Quilt, and reading your story about it. That quilt could be around year round for me.I am subscribing so I can travel along your journey from my little piece of the world. Thanks a bunch
Wow, I LOVE your quilt, especially those muted colors! I love bright colors, but this one is absolutely stunning! Thanks for the links to the patterns!
That is one awesome quilt!
Gorgeous quilt and quilting. Thanks so much for sharing!
Wow, what a fabulous quilt. Those spider blocks are really striking.