Quilt-As-You-Go Hand Stitched Halloween Hexies
This fun fabric plan seemed the perfect seasonal choice
for my project for the
What is a novelty fabric?
"Novelty fabrics are a fantastic way of making a fun, light hearted and themed quilt. Novelty quilts are a great conversational piece. They are typically made of fabrics with quirky patterns or images."
This fabric is
Fab-Boo-Lous by Dani Mogstad for Riley Blake Designs
which is a colorful Halloween novelty fabric.
which is a colorful Halloween novelty fabric.
This project is a QAYG Hexie method that uses up
small pieces of leftover batting.
It is perfect for charm packs or scraps.
I cut 5 inch squares and trimmed the corners
leaving my seam allowance for turning and stitching.
I am using some scrap fabric from my
I have been suffering a seasonal cold or allergies and have been under the weather
and thought I would be able to complete this while resting
but it did not happen.
The plans were to make a pillow like this ...
made with this novelty "Nancy Drew" fabric charm pack.
I have learned a new trick since making that pillow,
I now use a Sewline Fabric Glue Pen
... to glue down my seam allowance to the back before.
This did make the sewing easier and less time consuming.
I use Aurifloss for hand quilting the front.
This method worked very well.
I love the happy whimsy of novelty fabrics.
Put two together when you hand quilt and these would make cute novelty coasters.
I am going to keep making these until I have enough for a pillow cover.
When I started blogging many years ago,
novelty fabrics were very much a unique type of fabric.
They were holiday or themed fabrics ...
... or kids fabrics for quilts like this
This is a
Today these whimsical little details are everywhere in modern fabric.
I think is may be largely due to the trend toward "modern vintage,"
what was once old is now trendy.
I am think that 30's feedsacks may have been the origin
of the novelty fabrics in quilting cottons of today.
Think about all the little foxes and owls and birds and bees and umbrellas and boots
and cats that pop up in modern fabric lines.
Novelties in quilting fabrics are everywhere.
Even the digital print fabrics like this
Dream Big Panel
are actually specialty novelty prints.
My original thought for this re-scheduled blog hop was to quilt this
Dream Big Leaf panel on my longarm,
but my dreams proved a little big for me this time.
My apologies for not completing a project for this blog hop.
I hope you have enjoyed my novel post.
I am sharing today with these
Nifty Noveties Blog Hop Quilters
Thursday, October 24
Quilting and Learning - What a Combo
Days Filled With Joy
Life in the Scrapatch (you are here)
Bumbleberry Stitches
Days Filled With Joy
Life in the Scrapatch (you are here)
Bumbleberry Stitches
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You’ll have three days to answer the email, after that, the winner will be redrawn.
The average bundle should ship right around the price of $4.00 USD
Your invoice will also include the Paypal fee also which is around 40 cents.
they will all ship via Paypal shipping.
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Marian will email you if you win.
Best of luck with the winning thing!
Thank you, Marian, for organizing this novel blog hop and giveaway!
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Since it is Thursday, I am also linking up with the friendly
where every week we pause to think about all the good things in life,
big and small.
Happy Thursday!
56 comments:
I love these projects Pat. It looked like the hexi's were finished tho... :)
I entered at Life in the Scrapatch. Love your double 4-patch quilt; the black/white check border really makes it pop. Thanks.
I love your hexie pillow. Thank you for sharing all your projects.
Entering via Life in the Scrapatch
I love your Nancy Drew pillow. I wish I’d gathered that line while it was still accessible! I’m entering the giveaway at scrapatches.
All your projects are wonderful, but I really like those Halloween coasters!
I have rekindled my passion for EPP, thanks for the tip on the Sewline pen.
Love your hexies! I see another project in my future.
Pat at Life in the Scrapatch. I love your ideas for the Halloween coasters. I am always looking for some hand work to do while watching tv.
Awe you are still under the weather? Great projects. I like your coasters. When you feel better can't wait to see how you quilt the next dream big panel.
Hope you feel better soon! These coasters are precious!
Great pillow!
Life in the Scrapatch. Like the cute hexies and thank you for the link to the I Spy pattern!
I hadn't seen the dream big leaf panel before. I will have to look for it locally.
I love the big leaf panel.
I'm still hoping that you feel better soon!
I love your little Halloween Hexies. It reminds me I bought Hexi papers at Missouri Star for someone, and I've yet to get them to her! LOL!! So sorry your not feeling well. With the weather change here, there's a lot of that going around. Have some hot tea, and get better soon!
I love your I Spy. I am entering at Scrap patches.
Such cute fabrics and I love the QAYG way of creating them! I'll have to check out your tutorial - I certainly have lots of scrap pieces of batting! Hope you feel better soon, Pat.
Life in the Scrapatch! Love novelty fabrics. I have that Nancy Drew fabric that you turned into a pillow. I haven't used it yet because other projects have gotten in the way. Loved her as a teenager.
Life in the Scrapatch is the blog. Your "adapted" idea is a cute one. I've been meaning to try both hexies as well as QAYG, so here we go. Thanks for sharing your inspiration & creativity with us despite being under the weather.
Love these Pat!! I bought a bunch of Navy Drew because of your pillow and I now see more Halloween fabric in my future. He died here I come! Thanks for inspiration!
Oops, entered from the wonderful scratches blog!
Cute idea - I love making hexies! Visiting Life in the Scrapatch.
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Love the Halloween coasters.. Would make a cute Christmas orniment
I entered thru "Life in the Scrapatch"....Loved Nancy Drew (& Trixie Belden) books when I was in school...I am reading them again, with the Grangirlie! :) Love your Pillow!!
Visiting Life in the Scrapatch. Cute idea for the coasters, would make great Christmas gifts!
Darling uses for cute fabrics! Thanks
Hexies are so fun to make. Thanks for sharing :) MelvaLovesScraps(at)NolanQualityCustoms(dot)com
Hi Pat! What a fun post. Your Halloween hexies are lovely, and not all that scary. Ooh-la-la, that panel of leaves is really beautiful. The detail they achieve on them is amazing. Somehow, that looks easier to me than the dahlia one-cloth as far as quilting it. I think because each leaf has a defined edge, where the petals on the flower are more vague. I can't wait to see what you do on your longarm with that. ~smile~ Roseanne
Love your hexie coasters!! This is probably the only way I would do anything with hexies and they are adorable!
Entering at life in the scrapatch! Those Hexies are cute. How will you join them when you have enough for your pillow cover? Thank you for sharing!
Hi, Debby, you are a no reply blogger so I will answer here. I hand sew them together by ladder or whip stitch with right sides together. If you click on the link for the Nancy Drew Pillow Tutorial, I have photos of all the steps to join them. Hope this helps ... :) Pat
Hi, again, Debby ... if you mean how would I make a two sided coaster, I would sandwich them wrong sides together and hand blanket stitch with embroidery thread around the outer edge. Alternatively, you could sandwich and quilt through both hexies. Again ... hope this helps ... :) Pat
I am entering at Scrap Patches. I understand how time can slip away...it happens so easily. Your post was great. Thanks for sharing.
The Halloween hexies are so cute!
I entered at Quilting and Learning -- What a Combo. Nancy A: SewingGranda@gmail.com
Life in the Scrapatch you have so many cute ideas!
Oh, love those hexie coasters! Thanks for the tutorial, I think I'll have to make some when I get home! xx
Dorian @ Ridge Top Quilts says ... "I love your cute Halloween hexies. Hope you feel better soon."
Time to go shopping for some novelty fabric, lol! Thanks for sharing the tutorial!
I love these and thanks for sharing the tutorial! Perfect hand stitching.
Love the glue idea!! I love it! I will be trying this very soon! Thanks!
Entering at Life in the Scra*atch. Fussy cutting hexi's is the best. Thanks for the idea for a I S*y Quilt. The letter between O-Q is shown by an * .
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I always love seeing what's going on with Scrapatches! I'm so sorry you've been sick. That it isn't finished is no big deal, because you shared how you were making it, and a tutorial from before. I use the glue stick, too, except Bohin. I was dead set against it until I tried the Bohin and it peels up so easily! Now I'm happy not to be basting with thread! Your Halloween fabrics are the cutest and happiest. This is a great idea, and I like it for a coaster, too. I remember when we were all making the I Spay that was hexagons and 60 degree triangles. Oh, that was fun! We met at the quilt shop with all our novelty fabrics and swapped pieces so no two were alike - and I used chartreuse triangles in mine!
Scrapatches I love the Halloween Hexies
Entering at Scrapatches! I love the QAYG hexie idea! I need some handwork for my trip!
I am entering at Scrapatches. Hexies is one I haven't tried. This looks neat!
Those coasters are super cute! Great way to use up the small novelty scraps!
Hi, what a great idea! Since I love hexies, this would make a great project. I'm looking forward to seeing your finished project.
I'm entering this from scrapatches blog and I love all the cute eye candy on the site! Thanks so much for the chance to win and for the wonderful patterns and fun things to get ideas from!!!
The Halloween Hexies are very cute! Saw these on ScrapPatches.
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Halloween coasters are perfectly festive.
Life in the Scrap Patch--Like your Halloween theme--Thanks!
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Entering at Life in the Scrapatch! Your Halloween Besides are just too cute! Thank you, Susan
Entering at Scrapatches. Cute idea.
I love that Dream Big panel. I have seen it before and thought I could use it for a backing on one of my quilts. Kind of like, double sided. Thank you.
I am entering at Life in the Scrapatch! Great hexies!
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