Halloween wall hanging

Here's a cute little Halloween wall hanging

I quilted yesterday for Robin's mother.

I've been thinking about what to do on it for a little while because when I basted it, besides, the pumpkins, all I could see was the spiderwebs.

I'm not crazy about quilting spiderwebs, especially ones that small!

When I got to the center of the quilt to start I was delighted to see the dark black lines demanding to be quilted with curly-cues which are one of my faves!!

I was also happy to find the saw tooth triangles I could quilt over on the inner border.  It says ''Happy Halloween" in letters too small to outline.  then the outer border, has figures that are small and detailed inside big circles, so I just outlined the big circles and that was enough quilting.

And or course the ever popular back:

Last week I quilted a very beautiful black and beige quilt and then forgot to photograph it.

I'm kicking myself because it is really, really pretty.

I called the gal yesterday and she is supposed to send me photos.

I hope to get them soon.

My next quilt is an embellished quilt for Margaret.

I'm getting ready to baste it.

I looked at it a little bit ago and saw that some of the blocks have decorative stitching in the background as cross hatching.

I wonder what I'm supposed to do to quilt that? Hmmm?

Happy quilting!

Two more

Here's the completed Halloween quilt

And here you can see a couple of the blocks from the back.

She put a black strip down the center and they showed up really well on the black.

Orange thread on the orange, not so well.

The other quilt is this cute little cowboy quilt with brown cuddly minky squares.

This was a bit challenging because she brought an unknown polyester batting product that she had on hand. But didn't think it would be fluffy enough, so she thought it should be doubled.

So I basted it with 2 layers of batting.

It was not a pretty picture.

Skipped stitches no matter what kind of needle I used and it was like instantly dulled the needles.

AND the places I quilted were stiff not fluffy. 

So I re-basted and tried again.

My sewing machine was still no so happy, but I got it adjusted and quilted lots of wavy lines in the center

And you can see the border work I did here.
Tried to make it look cow boyish with more wavy lines and stitches that you might see on boots.


Happy Quilting!