Halloween Haunts!!!

Boo!!! Trick or Treat.... Smell my Feet.... Give me something good to eat.....

When I was a kid, we used to chant this as we went from house to house. I remember us all running around the neighborhood in our costumes. One year I was a robot... I made my costume out of a refrigerator box wrapped in tin foil. I had a small slit cut to see out of and a 'deposit candy here' opening with a pillowcase hooked to the inside of the box to catch the candy. This was one of those costumes that in theory was awesome, but the practicality of it.... not so brillaint. I could barely navigate front steps. It was hilarious! I thought it looked like a robot, but I'm sure I just looked like a huge box wrapped in tin foil hobbling down the street. It turned out to be unseasonably warm that year... so I baked inside of my toasty box... I could have been a microwave!

Halloween last year, my sweetie and I.
We are supposed to be Ragnar and Lagertha, but
I'm afraid we look more like Hagar the Horrible and Helga...lol...

So let's get to some spooky fun! I can't wait to show you my fun project! I made a bunch of Bat Mats... they are so stinkin cute and are a great way to use up leftover scraps of Halloween fabric.



Wrap a Bat Mat around a bottle of wine for an adorable
hostess gift...



Stuff a Bat Mat in a mug with candy for your friends!

Make a bunch of Bat Mats and sew them onto some orange and white
bakers twine for a batty garland to welcome the little zombies that
visit this Halloween.

I'm hosting a little giveaway on my blog, leave me a sweet comment on your favorite costume for a chance to win. (For an extra chance follow me too) I'm giving away 3 PDF copies of my Going Batty Mug Mat to three lucky winners. I will pick the lucky winners at the end of the hop and notify you by email!  Halloween is right around the corner, and this blog hop has been so much fun so far! So much spooky inspiration! Make sure to leave a comment (or two) and enter the drawing for the $25 gift certificate from Fat Quarter Shop over at Marian's at Seams To Be Sew! Thank you Marian for this awesome hop, I'm loving it!

I get to share today with this talented group!

Have fun hopping around and remember to say

'Trick or Treat'!

Featured Haunts On Tuesday October 20

Quilt In Piece

The Quilting Queen Online

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Apple Avenue

Quilt Doodle Doodle (Thank you for stopping by!)

Happy Halloween!

October's Prize!!!

Accckkkk ....
As you can maybe tell, I'm playing catch up due to the late posting for this month's prize! The only thing is I'm playing catch up at mom's house. It's MEA weekend and I've been sewing away. I got two quilts quilted, I've gotten samples done for a quilt shop... I've got a few new items I'm working on to show you too. I think all of you are super busy too! I haven't seen many new blocks lately. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone's cat and pumpkin blocks.
 To inspire you all to get your blocks done I have an awesome prize... So this month's prize is an awesome Bali Cracker pack from Hoffman Fabrics. I'm sure you can think of all sorts of fun things to make with this! I grabbed a picture from online so the one I send out will be a little different then what is pictured. But it is a great stack of ten inch squares. Great colors!

 

 To enter to win this stack of ten inch squares from Hoffman Fabrics, you need to post this month's finished blocks to the Quilt Doodle BOM flickr group.  You can post the current October block, or pictures of past blocks if you are playing catch up. You can also post pictures if you are working on the square in a square blocks that surround each month's blocks. The directions can be found on Craftsy and also my website for free. (Links are below)

 

This month's pattern is available for FREE HERE! and also HERE

If you missed any of the blocks they can be found in my Etsy store for a small fee.

A printable supply list can be found HERE!

Cutting instructions and quilt construction for the quilt can be found HERE!

The last block pattern will be posted on November 1st!  The winner for the October's block will be announced on November 1st also.

Let's have some quilty fun!
Happy quilting,



Don't forget to grab the button too and post on your blog! The more the merrier!

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Flower Power!

Last spring I had the privilege to work with Camelot Fabrics and design a quilt to go with some of their fabric. So I came up with this cute girlie quilt. Being a child from the 70's , (I was 13 in 1975) I wanted  to design something that reminded me of my childhood. The era of Teen Beat, peace signs, and flower power! This quilt uses their Petite Plume fabric line. The pattern is a FREE PDF download on their website. So have fun and remember the days of VW buses, peace signs, and astro pops. 

Happy quilting,

Halloween Haunts 2015

I love Halloween, it's one of my favorite holidays. Wilson and I dress up and pass out candy to the neighborhood kids. I am especially excited that Halloween falls on a Saturday this year. In celebration, and to get me into the spirit of the holiday I joined the 'Halloween Haunts Blog Hop 2015 which is hosted by Marian at Seams To Be Sew. My day is October 20th and I'm finishing up a couple of fun items to show you! Another super exciting thing to tell you about is that there is going to be a $25 gift certificate given away each day of the hop! WOW! Thank you Fat Quarter Shop !! and Thank you Marian for all of your hard work organizing this fun, spooky Halloween Blog Hop! (The complete listing is down below.)

Mark your calendar!

Happy Quilting,

Here is the schedule for Halloween Haunts:

Featured Haunts on Friday, October 16
A Stitch In Time
Marjorie’s Busy Corner
Ravelly
Words In Stitches
Quilted Delights

Featured Haunts On Monday October 19
Charm About You
Quilting Affection
Moose Stash Quilting
Gracie Oliver Arts
Kwilt Krazy
Debbie

Featured Haunts On Tuesday October 20
Quilt In Piece
The Quilting Queen Online
Elizabeth Coughlin Designs
Apple Avenue
Quilt Doodle Doodle (That's me!)

Featured Haunts On Wednesday October 21
Tea Time Creations
Grandma’s Stories
In The Boon Docks
Just Because Quilts
Just Let Me Quilt

Featured Haunts On Thursday October 22
Quilt Shop Gal
Jane’s Quilting
U Can Quilt 2
RMS Handcrafted
Everyone Deserves A Quilt
Life In The Scrapatch

Featured Haunts On Friday October 23
Free Motion By The River
Quilt Art
Joan E
It Seams To Be Sew
From This To That

Featured Haunts On Monday October 26
Beads & Birds
Needled Mom
Fun Threads
Pampered Petit
Vrooman’s Quilts
Pam G

Featured Haunts On Tuesday October 27
Tweety Loves Quilting
Sandy
How Art You
Cate’s Place
Feather Your Nest
Why Knot Kwilt

October's Block is Here!

Fall has arrived, the mornings are cooler here in Minnesota. I'm enjoying the cooler weather. The trees are starting to change, some of the trees are so pretty but we are far from peak color. I'm looking forward to a wonderful weekend ahead with perfect weather. This month's block features a pumpkin, oak leaves and a sweet kitty. All favorites! My sister has a sweet litter of kitties that I have enjoyed seeing pictures of. They are sooooo adorable and I'm thinking Wilson might need a friend...

This month's block is a fun block to put together. Feel free to make the kitty any color you would like. You can even give the pumpkin a face if you would like. That would be so very cute.

This month's pattern is available for FREE HERE! and also HERE

A printable supply list can be found HERE!

Cutting instructions and quilt construction for the quilt can be found HERE!

There's a flicker group!  Please join...Every month post photos of your Quilt Doodle BOM finishes in the BOM flicker group for a chance to win that month's prize! I'm looking forward to seeing all of the different October blocks!

If you want to be added to the email reminder list... send me your email.

The next block pattern will be posted on November 1st!  The winner for the SeptemberOctober's block will be announced on November 1st also. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone's books! Now onto our winner...

Congratulations Iris!!!

You have won two charm packs from Hoffman Fabrics.
Please email me your address so that I can get this out in the mail.

I'm still looking for!
notqnot! 

Congratulations! Please email me your email address so that we can get your prize to you!

 notqnot won an awesome $25 gift certificate from The Fat Quarter Shop!  last month!

Happy quilting,

Don't forget to grab the button too and post on your blog! The more the merrier! The code for the button can be found below.

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