COLOR STAR QUILTED

 I've been busy doing other stuff the last few days and getting the business B&O Taxes filed and paid by the end of the month. 

But, today I was back to quilt Color Star on the longarm.

And now it is officially quilted and off the machine.

NEXT UFO TO DO

 November's UFO Challenge is my Color Star quilt top.  I made a backing using greys and black and white prints from my stash.  I didn't put a label on it.  The center of this quilt was a printed panel of the color star.  I had added some black fabric to the top and bottom of it to make it rectangular.  Then I added the four borders using coordinating fabrics and put it away.  It was not yet big enough for a twin sized quilt, so I added another plain black border to make it 66" by 80" when I pulled it out to finish.

I loaded the backing onto the longarm yesterday.  Today I added the batting and the top and got busy setting up a pantograph and starting the quilting on it .  I only got one pass made before it was time to go in for the day.

CUTTING PANTS

 Darrell was getting rid of a pile of pants he didn't want anymore.  I grabbed them.

I spent the morning cutting them up into just fabric.  That means getting rid of all of the heavy seams.

I felt a little bad because most of the pants were still wearable.  But, I want to make a quilt.

BINDING SPIDER LEGS

 I enlisted help from my quilty friends from Brave Patch in deciding on which fabric to use for the binding on Spider Legs.  We settled on this black and white strip.  I like to use bias binding, which means the strip will be diagonal.  

I made the binding and got it sewed on today.

Then I put it up on the wall and took the photos I need if I want to submit it to a show.

This quilt is done!  It's 63" by 81" 

WITCH HAT

As if I didn't have other things to do I decided instead to make a Witch's Hat.  I had a chunk of old Alexander Henry fabric with magical symbols, bats, cats and other stuff on it that would be perfect for this project.

It was a battle getting the cone sewn onto the brim and it isn't pretty, but it looks okay on the outside and that's all that matters.

I quilted it on the longarm first.

Then cut out the parts with a pattern from Prairie Misfit.  And sewed them together after I watched her short video on YouTube and read the directions on the pattern.  

And it turned out all right!

VINTAGE CAT BUCKET

I watched a how-to video on Creative Bug and made this Vintage looking Halloween Cat bucket.

Its papier-mâché over a plastic pumpkin bucket.

SPIDER LEGS QUILTING FINISHED

 I finished the quilting on the Spider Legs quilt, made from Spider Web parts from Sherri Lynn Wood's improv workshop.  I'm very pleased with how this quilt looks.  The teal background fabric is just so much fun.  And it's always satisfying to use up scraps like I did in the black and white 'webs'.  

I used a light teal thread in the 'background' areas.  I only had a partial small spool and was concerned about running out.  But, I won!  I won the thread-chicken game.  Just barely.

ps, that's my little pin cushion, Freydis. She's in charge of my spiral eye needle.

Here is is. Almost done.