It’s only mid-October, which means you still have time to make something for Halloween if the spirit moves you. It doesn’t have to be a full quilt — wall hangings, candy totes, pillows and many other small projects are all you need to add some seasonal spooky fun to your home decor.
Here are a few new collections for Halloween 2015 that caught my eye; there’s something here for practically every taste, from fun to sophisticated to downright creepy. Click on the pictures to enlarge them.
Andover has brought back its popular Victorian-style Chillingsworth in the Chillingsworth’s Spooky Ride collection.
Chillingsworth’s Spooky Ride panel
Chillingsworth’s Spooky Ride coordinating prints from Andover
Northcott is serving up Halloween cuteness that’s just perfect for the kids* in the Happy Haunting collection, featuring all the classics — skeletons, witches, ghosts, bats, jack o’lanterns and other completely non-threatening monsters.
*Remember when Halloween was almost strictly for kids? Not that I’m complaining that adults are free to have fun with it, too — I think it’s great!
Happy Haunting border stripe from Nortcott
Happy Haunting coordinating prints from Northcott
Maywood Studio explores the whimsical, “fa-BOO-lous” side of Halloween with the Mind Your Mummy collection.
Mind Your Mummy coordinating prints from Maywood Studio
Mind Your Mummy prints and panel from Maywood Studio
And meanwhile, Timeless Treasures is dead serious with its photorealistic Wicked Eve collection that features gravestones, ravens, skulls and even a ouija board-inspired design — now this is spooky fabric!
Wicked Eve print from Timeless Treasures
WIcked Eve coordinating prints from Timeless Treasures
Wicked Eve prints from Timeless Treasures
Speaking of projects you still have time to make before the end of the month, have you ever seen our free Halloween wall hanging pattern Halloween Street by Gigi Khalsa?
Halloween Street free quilt pattern by Gigi Khalsa
If that’s not the cutest Halloween quilt, then I don’t know what. Download your free pattern from our website and start hunting for novelty Halloween fabrics to add to the trick-or-treating fun! And click here to check out more free Halloween quilt patterns available on QuiltersNewsletter.com.
If you’re short on time and Halloween fabric and you want to make something fast, easy and fun, take a look at the Jazzy Jack quilt kit, available from QuiltandSewShop.com. Best of all, it’s on sale right now for $20.99 — that’s 40% off!
There are more autumn and Halloween kits and patterns on sale as well; click here to view all of them on QuiltandSewShop.com.
Happy Quilting and Happy Halloween!
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