I Like Thursday # 32 ~ I Like Nifty Novelty Fabrics

Quilt-As-You-Go Hand Stitched Halloween Hexies

This fun fabric plan seemed the perfect seasonal choice 

for my project for the

Nifty Novelties Blog Hop

What is a novelty fabric?

Quilting 101. com says ...

"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.

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 

Fab-Boo-Lous Witchy Stitchy Table Runner

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 ... 

Here is my tutorial for a completed pillow project

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

  I Spy Baby Quilt

This is a 

Free Pattern Here from Bonnie Hunter @ Quiltville

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

Before you leave enter this ...

Nifty Novelty Blog Hop Fat Quarter Bundle Giveaway 

Fat Quarter Bundle of 

"Can You Dig It" by Dear Stella for Timeless Treasures 

a Rafflecopter giveaway

This giveaway is organized by and hosted by and will be sent by ...

Marian @ Seams To Be Sew

Here is the giveaway information from her blog:

"All winners will be drawn and notified on November 5th ...
All winners will be notified via my gmail or yahoo.com email address.
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.
Canadian and Overseas rates will differ"

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! 
There will be different giveaways on each stop of the hop. 

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Since it is Thursday, I am also linking up with the friendly

I Like Thursday Bloggers @ Not Afraid of Color

where every week we pause to think about all the good things in life,

big and small. 

Happy Thursday!