Easy Sewing for My Halloween Decor

My order arrived from Missouri Star Quilt Company this weekend. Yay! Here’s a photo of the 10″ squares collection from Andover Fabrics called Midnight Haunt Sundaes. I like that it is not cutesy for kids, nor is it too macabre or gothic.

My cutting table was ready for me to begin. I wanted to make a simple, somewhat uncomplicated quilt. I used the squares with large pattern prints as the 9-patch center.

I cut some of the 10″ squares with small prints into sashing strips. From my stash, I cut squares of candy corn fabric for the sashing joins, and the pumpkin strips for the first inner border (shown below).

The second border used 5 1/2″ squares cut from some of the 10″ squares with small print patterns. And my final decision was to add a mitered border using some stash fabric. I cut these strips on the straight of grain to reduce any stretch of the outer border.

 

My design “wall” bulges out a bit because it hangs from an old entertainment center, therefore, giving the quilt some uneven hanging. But a few of the seams of the outer border squares are slightly off and I’ll have to tweak some stitches or work at quilting it flat!

Happy Fall Quilting!