Halloween Bunting Completed!

What?! In time for Halloween?  How unusual.  Yes, started last weekend and it is already finished.  I thought I should just go ahead and post it.  I am not becoming efficient, if you were wondering about that.  Sometimes happy accidents happen.

This is just a preliminary hang-up job, to see how it looks.  I will be hanging it outside for Halloween.  Yes, it will involve a ladder and adding a hook to the outside of our house.  One end will be anchored in our blooming cherry tree, thus only one hook.  I can hardly wait!  [for more bunting info, click on the link in the left margin:  Festive Bunting You Can Make Yourself]

Happy October

It has been a busy month with auto appointments, pet appointments, people appointments, yard sale weekend, and a long camping weekend.  I still have hardly put up a decoration for Halloween.  I did make another Halloween quilt, however.  This one I actually photographed in October (instead of February or August).

This is the one that I pieced all the blocks while out camping in the woods in July.  My July post has some photos of the quilt in progress.  The light sashing fabric has tiny little black spiders on it.  I got it quilted in September and the binding on in the first part of October.  It was deliberately made for my co-workers' son, who is turning ten on this Halloween.  My dad's birthday was on Halloween, and it never occurred to me to make him a Halloween quilt.  I know this young man will appreciate and enjoy it for many years to come.  He wrote me a thank card in cursive.  I don't know if he has discovered that the bones in the border fabrics glow in the dark.  They do!   

On our camping trip, last week, we went up to Brownlee Reservoir, where I made some skull blocks.  I feel a skull quilt in my future.  These blocks are going into bunting to be hung out on Halloween.