Happy Jacks times two

 Oh my gosh I forgot to write a post last night, totally forgot it was Friday today! So here goes a short post for these two Happy Jack wall hangings or use it as a door banner.

This is inspired by a Buttermilk Basin pattern, I enlarged my squares. Here is the backing for the first one. 

And the second one. See my new prop, the Hello Fall truck that I picked up from Hobby Lobby this week. I couldn't resist and it was on sale!

Don't you love the witches and black cat piece for the backing on this, it pays to dig in your stash!! It wasn't quite enough so I added a gold on top and for the triangle hanging tabs. 

A bit late to these parties but never the less I will be there!!

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Jack-O-Lantern and pumpkins

Ten days ago I attended the Great Wisconsin Quit show held in Madison. I always go over and stay with a friend and we go to the show together. It's been 4 years since I went to this one. Of course we had a nice time both at the show and then going back to her house for tons of chatter and laughter.  I really didn't buy a lot at the show, a few patterns from Buttermilk Basin(BB) and a set of fat quarters at another booth. The truth is I didn't need anything but inspiration;)  The BB booth was great, I couldn't help myself when it came to her Halloween display. A few days later I had this little guy all stitched up. 

At 16"x12" it makes a great wall or door banner.  The pattern didn't call for the orange or candy corn borders, but that made it a bit to small for my liking so I added them.  The pattern also has a larger size included.  Great way to use some orange scraps! 

What a fun little cutie to work on. I appliqued the nose and mouth on after quilting. Buttons for eyes were machine stitched on after quilting also. 

                         Triangles added in each top corner to insert a small dowel rod for hanging. 

All things pumpkin, it's the season and I am loving working with fall colors once more. 

The pumpkin applique are a free pattern from A Bright Corner blog.  After determining what size background fabric I wanted I quilted it on my longarm. I actually did two on one backing to save time. Then I bind and applique it. 

I like to find other ways one can display a runner or quilt, we need options, right! So open a door and hang the runner over it.

Oh I am not done with pumpkins yet, more to come this week;) I hope you'll check back in a few days. 

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Halloween panels are hot!

I have been amazed at how many Halloween wall hangings I sell using a panel to make them.  I sold Witchy Boo and Happy Jack soon after I listed them.  So Thursday and Friday I made Jack-O-Lanterns and Ghostie too. I listed him Friday evening and Saturday morning he sold!  So guess what that means...oh shoot I will have to make their cousins next😏

So here is how I started this one, after squaring up the little panels I added the solid black to set it off and then the checkerboard border of a light and dark print.

Some fabric auditioning started to see how the rest comes together. Sometimes I like the first fabric pulls and sometimes not so much.  In the end I didn't use the green one. 

 

Of course some pinwheels had to show up.  Okay now it's starting to look like something. 

That orange and black stripe just had to be a part of this, at first I thought it would be the binding. Auditioning fabrics for those borders was harder than normal this time, I couldn't quite put my finger on what was wrong until I mocked it up with the polka dot cornerstones.  Bam that was the ticket and the stripe became a small border. The binding is the same as the last border black with orange stars.

I was pleased to use up some scraps of orange polka dots and the light checkerboard fabric.  in this little 23"x 24" wall hanging.  Okay on to the next one!  

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Happy Jack

Doesn't this little Jack-O-Lantern look so happy and excited for Halloween. Another part of a sweet Halloween panel makes his debut as a fun wall hanging. This was the same panel Witchy Boo was on. 

Once I got Jack all squared up he asked for a small green sashing all around him to make him think he was still in the pumpkin patch.  After that a thin black sashing before he got the addition of a checkerboard border in orange and white polka dot fabrics. 

Of course pretty green and orange pinwheels to symbolize green leaves and Jack's friends still in the garden. 

By now Jack was resigned to be just that a Jack-O-Lantern and not just a pumpkin anymore. So he let me spruce him up with the cutest candy corn outer border.  I found the candy corn fabric in Walmart in a precut 1 yard package, I couldn't resist! 

Happy Friday, I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.  I hope to be getting some quilting done so I have some finished to show next week.  

We had the Grandsons yesterday, we took them to the local park/zoo to see the new wolf pups, and the rest of the animals.  Mother nature thought we needed some watering as it rained. Hubby ran to the SUV to get our rain gear and we toughed it out till it really poured down. We quickly ran to the building for cover and to wait it out. After seeing the rest of the animals we went to the picnic shelter and had lunch. The boys were so funny as they told us the night before we had to have a picnic basket and a checkered red and white table cloth in order to have a picnic.  I quickly produced both and they were delighted!!  Kids can be so funny:)

Our wild plums, oh so yummy.  I found this tree with much bigger ones than most of ours. We will just gobble them right up. We thought about trying to make jam but think it is more work than we want. 

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