Spooktacular with Benartex

Spooktacular Fabrics by Benartex

BOO! Uh, I mean, welcome! Thanks for stopping by to see what I've got behind the curtain. Let's see what I've done with this fun collection of Halloween fabrics. Last month I shared about how to create hexagons. Today I share about making octagons into snowballs. I will be making the Snowball block to showcase these novelty prints.

I cut a variety of 6-1/2" squares from the other prints; but here you can see my placement of these orange print squares on the fussy cut HELL FIRE square from above. Sew on the diagonal line; trim away 1/4" as shown.

Sew on drawn line; trim 1/4" away. Discard small waste triangles

Then you need to press . . .

Press triangles outward for a neat 6-1/2" unfinished Snowball block

Some of the fabrics will use a black square . . .

Sew along diagonal line; trim and press

Just so I could keep track of where the squares will go and the orange and black triangles, I laid out my block parts before sewing. I call this auditioning.

Auditioning my color choices

Let's look at a few of the fun fabrics.

Happy spiders? Not the ones I find in my bathroom . . .

And what about bottles of funky brews?

Bottles of spiders? Essence of witch? Yikes!

So, what did I get? A happy, little Halloween quilt!

9 blocks with 1" inner border and 4" outer borders

And? And? Anything else? Of course! Audrey came over and grabbed the rest of the orange and black cat fabric to make a set of diaper covers for newborn twins being born any day now to her husband's uncle. Here they are:

Boo! Twins born around Halloween need spooky bloomers!