Twisted Tree part 2

I'm up late, laying awake, I can't sleep. Visions of quilts are dancing through my head. I'm getting excited to finish up my tree quilt. I put the border on and now I'm just waiting to quilt and bind! Can't wait to hang it up for the holidays!

TWISTED TREE PART 1

Beach Birthday Cake

Beach Themed Birthday cake. Lots of frosting, lots of fondant! I loved making the shark fins, and shovel and pail. Playing with fondant can be so much fun sometimes!

Pumpkin Wall Hanging (with movable eyes!)

Quilted Pumpkin Halloween Wall Hanging 

Start with 20 Halloween fabrics that are cut 4 1/2 inches by 4 1/2 inches. I used a lot of Halloween fabric I had been collecting. These will be for your borders. 

 You need 15 black pieces that are 4 1/2 inches by 4 1/2 inches. I cut 6 - 4 1/2 inch by 4 1/2 inch and one black piece that was 12 1/2 inches by 12 1/2 inches since I knew it would be covered by my pumpkin, I didn't want to do the extra work! You could cut one black piece that is 12 1/2 inches by  20 1/2 inches, if you want to do even less work. 

Sew your pieces together as shown. The black will be the center and all the fun Halloween prints will border the quilt

I drew my pumpkin on freezer paper, made sure he fit where I wanted him, and then I cut him out. I ironed my cut out onto my orange fabric for easy cutting (I used 1/2 yard of orange), and cut him out leaving 1/4 an inch around the boarder.

I'm not a professional appliquer so I'm not going to give detailed instructions. Basically for the eyes and nose, I left the edges raw and zigzag stitched them on. I cut out batting to add to the back of my pumpkin to make him extra soft. I turned the edges under and then zigzag stitched the pumpkin onto my background

After my pumpkin was on, I cut out the back of the quilt and the batting, basted them together with my spray, and hand quilted using my machine. I sewed some rick rack around the border, and bound it. 

So what about the eyes? I couldn't decide where to put them. The solution, I hot glued some heavy duty magnets to the back on my buttons, and now I can move the eyes wherever I want! I love that my pumpkin can have so many faces!