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Halloween Quilting

October 22, 2020

Today’s Topic:  Halloween Quilting

Welcome to Week Nineteen of The Better Machine Quilt-a-long based on my book 25 Days to Better Machine Quilting.

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Good Morning, Quilters!

We are taking a short diversion from our 25 week QAL for a little Halloween trick or treating!

I LOVE Halloween! and I love Halloween quilts!

Check out the Sugar Skull quilt tutorial sponsored by BERNINA’s We All Sew blog!

The tutorial includes a short video–but don’t worry it’s not scary –no vampires, werewolfs or slashers!

The other Halloween motifs are found in my book, MORE Free Motion Machine Quilting 1-2-3.

The Mini Quilts

I started with two practice pieces from the BERNINA tutorial….

and I added a row of motifs above including bats, ghosts and skulls.

Bat tutorial HERE

Ghastly Ghosts tutorial HERE

I made two variations: One with orange background quilting and one without:

No background quilting

Which do YOU like better?  With background fill or without?

Orange background quilting

And there was one small piece left for a postcard!

Halloween Doodles

Of course, every good quilting design starts with a good doodle!

Practice the motifs, then doodle a few compositions.

I had fun doodling on some old documents. If you are tired of lined notebook paper, look for old ledgers or documents.  I found a few on ebay and at a local vintage store.

Old paper adds character to doodles-while providing straight lines and blocks.

Have FUN!

Halloween is a perfect time to practice the hand-drawn technique of free motion quilting.  Don’t strive for perfection, shoot for character!

Shoot for the moon…

Who knows? You might snare a bat or a ghost…

Remember, if you have fun quilting and doodling, your quilts will be fun!

May you have bats in your quilts,

and NOT in your belfry!

Your Batty Quilter,

Loriella deVil

 

 

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13 responses to “Halloween Quilting”

  1. Susan Geldmeier says:
    October 22, 2020 at 6:35 am

    I love both of your Halloween “ placemats” , but I like the one with the orange background fill better.

  2. Sue says:
    October 22, 2020 at 6:59 am

    I love the background fill. It seems to unify the motif. But then, I tend to over quilt anyway!

  3. Sue says:
    October 22, 2020 at 8:22 am

    Another vote for the background fill. Cute!!

  4. Lori Hope says:
    October 22, 2020 at 8:42 am

    I love your Halloween motifs, and used them in the calendar quilt I finally completed last year–the month of October is filled with Halloween motifs from your books! 🙂

    1. Robbie says:
      October 23, 2020 at 5:18 pm

      Squee! They are so cute. Especially the postcard. Maybe I can knock a couple out over the weekend for my great-nieces.

      I prefer the larger piece with the orange background fill a little better. The subtle swirls seem to add a bit of pop to all the ghosts and bats.

  5. Bobbie Elder says:
    October 22, 2020 at 8:45 am

    I am so thankful for your tutorials online and in your books with the step-by-step guides!

  6. Mary G says:
    October 22, 2020 at 8:53 am

    Hat a fabulous idea, Lori. I haven’t time to quilt and get them off to the grands in Seattle this year, but definitely in 2021. Will make them soon tho, before I forget how cute this is. I think Papa and I need a pair as well.
    Oh, I do like the background fill.

  7. Maureen B. in B.C. says:
    October 22, 2020 at 10:06 am

    Ooooooo, totally creepy. Love them. Also love the dangly spiders in your artwork piece. So much better than physically walking through a faceful of web, as we’ve all done. Perhaps I need some placemats as well. Thanks Loriella DeVil
    BOOOOOO!

  8. Joanna says:
    October 22, 2020 at 11:19 am

    I’m sure you have heard this many times before but…You are soooo talented! Maybe one of these days my quilting will look half as good as yours does. Thank you for your generous nature in helping us go farther than we thought we ever could! Oh, and yes, the background quilting definitely looks good…I can see myself saying, EEK! if someone wanted more than just the figures…!

  9. Roxy Sherburne says:
    October 22, 2020 at 3:40 pm

    Cute, Lori!

  10. Christine says:
    October 22, 2020 at 5:30 pm

    You are so creative! Just loved all the ideas, has my wheels turning! Thanks so much!

  11. Arvilla Trag says:
    October 22, 2020 at 11:34 pm

    I especially love the bats!

  12. ba says:
    October 23, 2020 at 5:38 am

    Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. I have learned so much

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