Life in the Scrapatch: Bewitching Moda Fabrics

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Monday, December 10, 2018

My Bewitching Breeze Quilt

At last I am able to show you this quilt!

This is my Halloween version of the

Jolly Bar Meringue Quilt @ Fat Quarter Shop

To make this quilt I played with the basic meringue blocks,
twisting and turning and choosing colors to make this ...

... giant pinwheel layout ...

Quilt size 49" by 49"

Yardage Requirements for this version of the quilt:
1/2 yard gray
5/8 yard orange
3/8 yard white
1 and 1/4 yard beige
3/4 yard fabric(s) for binding

For my Halloween quilt I used

1 Bewitching Layer Cake
1 Bella Solid Parchment Junior Layer Cake
1/4 yard Vanilla Stars Grunge fabric
3/4 yard each Halloween Lattice and of binding fabrics

The Blocks:

Center Block ~ Make 1 block

Corner Blocks ~ Make 4 Blocks

Side Blocks ~ Make 4 Blocks

To make Meringue Block units, follow sewing instructions here

Piecing Half-Rectangle Units

Back of block

Press all seams open on 8.5" units.

Nest seams when making larger blocks.

Mt little quilty kitties and I followed our own choice
for color and placement of blocks.

Our finished quilt top.

Katniss helped select the quilting thread.

Nutmeg and I quilted a large spider web.

Maestro helped press the quilt.

My quilty kitties and I hope you enjoy making this quilt as much as we did.

In the spirit of the current season,

here is a variation of this quilt in red, green and white,
white a single print background:

May ALL your holidays be quilty and bright!

Thursday, October 25, 2018

Peek-A-Who? Blog Hop ~ My Day!

Here is my Bewitching Pillow Cover!

It is Wickedly Reversible!

I made this pillow for the

Peek-A-Who? Blog Hop

Here are the pieces to my pillow ...

a framed pinwheel block that was a leftover from making the quilt.
and a piece of a panel from my stash plus some stash strips,
extra binding fabric, a 20" pillow form,
and my snap pliers,

Most of these fabrics are from
Deb Strain for Moda Fabrics
Some are Eerily Elegant and some are Bewitching.
I love her fabrics, particularly her Halloween designs.

I am not going to do a tutorial for this pillow.
It is basically framed blocks.

I am going to show the details that make this pillow
sew very special.

I added batting and quilted a free form spider web
on the pillow top before I added the border strips.
This was in part to practice the spider web before I quilted the quilt.
This made for a very nice puffy pillow front.

To make an opening for inserting the pillow form I used my Dritz Snap Plier
and bright orange plastic snaps. I use a
Babyville Boutique Snap Pliers and plastic snaps

This is very easy to do,
even if you have a bandaid on your right index finger
from breaking off your machine needle into your finger.

Ouchie! all these years of sewing and I was dumb enough to somehow
put my finger under the needle late one night.
I yanked my hand back so hard that I broke the needle off in my finger
and had to use tweezers to pull it out.
With lots of antibiotic cream, it is healing rather well.
Back to sewing ...

To make the pillow I sandwiched the top and back,
right sides out and added binding as I would for any quilt.
I used the extra two-color binding strips that
I used to make the flanged machine binding on the quilt.

Tutorial for how I make my two-color binding Here

First I sewed it to the back of the pillow.

Then I turned the flanged binding to the front
and added piping by inserting cotton clothesline rope
into the binding.

Then I stitched it closed with my zipper foot.

This makes a crisp pillow edge.

Pretty and easy to remove for cleaning with the snap opening.

This large pillow cover measures 20" square.

The fabrics for the top of my pillow are

Bewitching and may be found HERE

I hope you have enjoyed your visit to my blog today.

Be sure to peek into all the stops on today's
Peek A Who? Blog Hop

Thursday, October 25, 2018

Just Because Quilts
Elizabeth Coughlin Designs
Patchwork Breeze

Life in the Scrapatch((you are here)

Here are the Giveaways
for this blog hop ...

A lovely Gift Certificate
from the always generous

Fat Quarter Shop

Enter Here:

a Rafflecopter giveaway

and

This beautiful blue ...

Bundle of Fabrics from

Timeless Treasures

It's value is $60.00!

Enter Here:

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Timeless Treasures giveaway has pictures of the bundle of fabrics. It's value is $60.00.

Best of luck with the winning!

Thank you for visiting me today.

This pillow was made to match the quilt in the background.
I am sorry I cannot show you the quilt, yet.
That quilt was made for a quilt along
that has been rescheduled by the host site.

I hope to show this quilt soon, even if it is after Halloween.

Before you go please be sure to visit,

Marian @ Seams To Be Sew

for a special treat, a free pattern!

Happy Quilty Halloween!