When holidays roll around I often make the same pattern three times – once for each family. This year I decided to make three different projects and it was much more enjoyable (and perhaps more work).

Boo (from Word Play Quilts)

As part of my commitment to the Guild Library I volunteered to review a book each month and make a project (or a part of a project) from it. Since I needed a Hallowe’en pattern, when I found this in one of the library books I killed two birds with one stone by reviewing the book and giving the project to Christy.

There were no real patterns for the letters; I just looked at the picture and cut fabric pieces and put them together in the form of the letters – very improvisational. I have enough trouble when I’m following a pattern so I’m not very comfortable improvising. I had a terrible time getting the letter “B” to work out. The piece originally had a black border but when I saw it displayed at a Guild meeting (prior to quilting it) I decided to change it for the green.

Hallowe’en Blades (adapted from Christmas Bells)

I have a much larger project that calls for curved piecing so I started on a much smaller scale with this pattern. I swapped out the red and green fabrics called for in the pattern for four different Hallowe’en fabrics.

Kathryn will get this one. She has a glass cutting board on her counter and these squares fit nicely under it to give her kitchen a seasonal (whatever the season) look.

Table Runner (from Fresh Quilts magazine (Fall/Winter 2014)

I had to hunt to find the third pattern but when I did I knew right away that it would fit Elizabeth’s table very nicely. It was easy to piece but the quilting took a long time. There were a lot of spider web ends that needed to be buried.