Happy Halloween! We won’t have any spooks making the trip down our 1200 ft. driveway tonight, so I will be in my usual place!

Practicing my voodoo–

Hacking stuff to bits…

and digging up old friends!

Last post, you saw I dug out my old Jeepers Creepers panel quilt. After a bit of quilt forensics, I figured out I purchased this in 2012. I got it on sale from Hancock’s of Paducah– 50% off! I still remember how excited I was to get it in the mail and how eager I was to make it. Then, I stuck it on a shelf for twelve years. Sound familiar?

I must have really loved it– I’m not a panel quilter. Why would I do anything to make life easier and shorten the process? I sort of remembered I even bought the matching backing fabric for it. For someone who can’t remember why they entered a room, that is significant!

Well, thank goodness I kept digging before I hit the BUY button on a backing for this project. Not only did I find three yards, but I also found a complete set of Jeepers Creepers fat quarters from Fat Quarter Shop. We can only assume I did plan to morph this project into some some sort of elaborate, overdone quilt, as I am so fond of doing!

Also, thank goodness, no further evidence in terms of sketches has been found for that idea, so I’m sticking with the original pattern only. Progress is well underway…

In spite of these shocking discoveries, I still have the glad eye on J. Wecker Frisch’s most recent Halloween collection “Pumpkin Patch”. I may jump in if any of the stores I’m stalking put it on sale tomorrow. I would be so excited to have it. I just emptied a space on my shelf where it can spend the next twelve years!

I’m looking forward to my evening’s spooky stitching and hope you are, too! If you don’t have a project, I have a 31% discount sitewide today. No coupon code and no minimum purchase are required.

Happy Haunting!

xox
Carol

5 responses to “A Quilt Twelve Years in the Making…”

  1. Dottie Newkirk Avatar
    Dottie Newkirk

    Love it!! XOXO Dottie

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  2. pjdowell2fd2ecebb95 Avatar
    pjdowell2fd2ecebb95

    I could not resist and bought the Pumpkin Patch quilt kit from Etsy shop. It’s so cute and I’m excited to make it but must wait until after the Christmas rush. Sound familiar? That’s how these projects that I’m so enthusiastic about get pushed aside and forgotten. maybe things will be different this year. I live in hope!

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  3. fearless85a661678c Avatar
    fearless85a661678c

    I am definitely sure we are related! Finding a 12 yo UFO would be on my bingo card. Finishing it might be the cincher. Happy Halloween to your ghosts and gremlins.

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  4. adventurousperfectly39b6d3799e Avatar
    adventurousperfectly39b6d3799e

    Your Halloween argyle quilt turned out fantastic! No trick or treaters at our place either – we’re also out in the country so the few kids in the area go into town. Our little town of Wimberley does a trick/treat event on the ‘square’ (not really a town square but the main conglomeration of stores) – most of the stores stay open late and hand out candy for a couple of hours. I have a couple of friends with stores, so I like to go in and help with the candy 🙂 This past Friday I attended the Houston Quilt Festival. I do a one day bus trip – it makes for a long day, but is SO much fun. Of course I accumulated more supplies even though I am so far behind on working on projects, lol. Happy November!

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  5. Paule-Marie Avatar
    Paule-Marie

    Love tge quilt. I can’t talk. My oldest project is a needlepoint piece from 1972. My friend who brought it back from Austria has long since stopped asking if I finished it yet.

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