Fright This Way - Turtle Point Quilt -

Halloween is a favorite holiday of mine….the opportunity to make a costume and become someone or something else, endless candy and fun, fun, fun! Not to mention… skeletons!! Whooohooo!!! The Fright This Way line of batiks by Sandy Gervais is incredibly fun with such deep color saturation and interesting characters…not to mention that it has a panel featuring goblins!

To feature some of the main characters I needed a pattern with some larger blocks and wide open spaces. I have been wanting to try out a pattern by a local designer, Leslie Morris and her pattern, Turtle Point looked like it could work.

I did not follow the pattern exactly. I used seven fabrics instead of three. The pattern was written to make the star blocks using half square triangles and I did not want to square up that many HST. I decided to make square in a square and flying geese instead.

I fussy cut the goblins (there are three different types).

This quilt is set on point and when I fussy cut the panels for the four large blocks, they didn’t quite fit or work and I needed to do some fancy piecing. If you look closely you can see where the sides of the blocks have been added..but, hey! Isn’t that what quilting is all about? Piecing?!

The bigger stars were fun to make.

I didn’t REALLY want to make six inch stars for the outer border, but, felt like I needed to use that purple with the spider web fabric more that just in the center. The outside border is my favorite with all of the fun words.

I chose Seasonal Basics Pumpkins Orange by Christopher Thompson for the backing and Monsters b2b for a quilting design. I quilted this on my Gammill Statler Stitcher AKA: Stitch. The binding is a very rich argyle from the Fright This Way line up.