Scrappy Halloween Finish

This is Scrappy Halloween.

 

Scrappy Stash Quilt Along at Ellison Lane Quilts.  There's still time, if you hurry.  Here's the tutorial.

In the spirit of scrappy stash, the back is made from fat quarters and left overs found in my stash.

Free-motion quilting by me.  I started with diagonal lines and stitch-in-the-ditch radiating out from the center with the intent of making one large, dense spider web.  But the farther I got from the center, the sloppier it got.  So I added some diagonals and straight lines to the outer sets of 4 blocks and made 9 spider webs instead.

 

This left space between the webs that I filled with hundreds of little spiders and their webby trails.

Finished Size: 49" x 49"

 

Binding: Timeless Treasures Charcoal Sketch

(Now, a word about this fabric.  I bought this upon the recommendation of some fellow bloggers.  Although the print is really fun and a great blender, the fabric quality is atrocious.  I was trying to make hexagons with it and you can feel the difference, not to mention the horrible amount of fraying because of the loose weave.  If you care about quality, do not buy this fabric.)

Quilting the Scrappy Halloween Quilt

I've been having fun with the quilting on my Scrappy Halloween Quilt . . . but it is taking forever!

 

 

I quilted a grid in the ditch of the blocks and then diagonally to make some asteriks shapes.  I used these as a guide to free-motion quilt a spiralling spider web out from the center.  I was going to go across the whole top with just one web, but the farther out I got, the messier in got.  I ended up with 9 webs.

 

 

In the spaces in between, I decided to quilt little spiders and their trailing threads of web.  Here's a little video of stitching a spider I was able to upload to my flickr stream, but not here (boo hoo . . . I'm becoming more and more technically un-savvy in my old age.)

 

On a side note, here's my cute family . . . they were testing the light while we waited for the entire extended family to gather.  This won't go on any Christmas cards or anything, but that's my fam (with me wrestling the 2-year-old to keep his hands out of his mouth).

 

Scrappy Stash Quilt Along

Jennifer at Ellison Lane Quilts is hosting the Scrappy Stash Quilt Along. I wasn't going to join because a) I need another project like I need a whole in the head and b) I didn't think I had enough scraps. But it was just too tempting and has been just too fun.

I finished my top this morning! It's rather small and I'm still considering how I might make it bigger, but I'm definitely scrapped out.

Here's my process . . . Using Jennifer's tutorial, I started out with gray because I did have scraps of those.

 

I realized I had black scraps, although the pieces were wonky-leftover-kaleidascope pieces . . . gives these blocks character.

Then a fun idea occurred. I dug out every remotely orange piece and dug through my stash for a few supplemental pieces. One ended up being a "use every last piece I have and make a kind of log cabin" block . . . still fun.

Here's what it looked like at that point.  This would have been fun, but would have required a fabric purchase to add more orange.

So I pulled purple and green scraps and cut strips from my stash.

Now I have a rather small, but finished quilt top.  Linking it up to Crazy Mom Quilts' Finish It Up Friday.

On a side note, my son is almost as tall as my sister. Ok, she is the shortest one in the family, but still . . . how did that happen?