Blogger’s Quilt Festival

I’m participating in the third Blogger’s Quilt Festival!
Please read about my special quilt story below, then click the button and go browse the other entries to your hearts content…there are so many beautiful quilts and quilt stories, you’ll be amazed!!! Enjoy!

The quilt I want to share with you is one that’s been done since last fall, but I actually had to go out and take a photograph of it this evening. I hadn’t snapped a pic of it before, because I had to give it to my husband the minute I cut the last thread. (Actually, he had it over his lap while I was sewing on the binding!) This is the second Halloween quilt that I made for my husband, Dave. You might remember, the first quilt I made for him was stolen in a burglary last summer. He was so sad because he said that quilt had been the best gift anyone had ever made for him (awww!)  So, of course, I had to replace it in the only way I could, make him another one!

I hunted down some of the fabrics online and had fun picking out new halloween novelty prints, then I set to work remaking the same pattern. I don’t think I’ve ever remade the same pattern twice, so it was a new experience. I’m not going to start a habit of doing that, but it was fun to see my technique improving and efficiency improving as I whipped through another time!  (It had been less than a year since I made the first quilt.) I offered to improve it in any way he saw fit and his suggestion was to make it bigger! So, of course, I did. I added to extra rows and one column, making it a lot bigger and taking a lot more work. But it’s now very nice to share on the couch. Who said a lap quilt has to fit over only one lap?! Needless to say, he loves his “new” quilt.

NOW, go look at all the other wonderful quilts in the festival!! And be ready to click a while, you won’t want to quit!