Halloween Haunts Blog Hop!

The spoooky season is here!!  Isn't this a wonderful season to make cute and spooky craft projects to decorate our homes? If you are new around here, welcome! If you have been here before, I am glad that you came back!!! :) If you are new here feel free to look around and you will find tons of FREE paper piecing patterns of very famous cartoon characters! :) And do you know that I have been running a fun series of tutorials call Stretch Your Skills where every month we learn a new skill, with a simple and finished little project?!?

From Foundation Paper Piecing, to Applique, to Crochet, to Quilting, to Design and Software!! You can download all the tutorials from the series page and there is still time to enter your projects for a final giveaway mystery prize!!

This is the project I made for the hop:

Spooky Hoopy Art

The Nightmare Before Christmas

I had this big quilting hoop for a while and it makes the perfect frame for a cute cross stitching pattern I designed from a scene of "The Nightmare Before Christmas". If you want to make one of these for yourself, you can download the pdf pattern for the cross stitching piece below. Click here to download the pattern!
And you know what? The blog hop has a daily giveaway too!! A $25.00 gift certificate from the Fat Quarter Shop each day of the hop!! It is a daily giveaway, the winners will be announced each day of the hop (one entry per day, not per blog). Use the Rafflecopter widget below to enter! a Rafflecopter giveaway
Oh, and just because it's Halloween, I want to share a recent pattern that I created in response to a "Halloween Fandom Pattern" challenge over at Fandom In Stitches

Peanuts Pumpkin!

This little coaster is the third project I complete for my long Q4 list of projects (project 15. in the list)!
Now, just hop over the other wonderful projects showcased today!! Alida (Tweety Loves Quilting) - http://tweloquilting.blogspot.com (You are here) Agnes (Dachies with Moxie) - http://dachsieswithmoxie.blogspot.com Catherine (Cate's Place) - http://cateslinens.blogspot.com Abbi Howatt (Feather Your Nest) - http://featheryournestquiltstore.com/ Comments are moderated so they won't appear right away. However I answer every single comment within 24 hours, if it's a no-reply blogger! :)

Tales of a Sewing Helper (and a link party)

Significant progress this week... but I can share very little since most of them are secret :)

The Ongoing Project List:

1. SYS2015 future projects - issue with September tutorial, I'm working on an idea to cover for the issue
2. Block Swap Adventure - received partner info, need to pick a pattern
3. Tiny Quilt Challenge (American Made Brand) - top almost finished (cannot share)
   closing on Sept 15, need to spend some time on this!!!
4. Charity quilts - next bargello top dooooone (see below)
5. Happy Halloween wall hanging - no progress
6. Zipper pouches - paused for a while
7. Americana QAL - paused until Sept
8. the 31000 Xs project - no progress
9. Halloween Haunts 2015 - great progress (cannot share)

The EverythingElse List:

1. the SK project - no progress
2. Mirror Mirror Afghan - no progress
3. the Ender project - no progress
4. Embroidery calendar - no progress
5. Project of Doom 2015 @ Fandom in Stitches - paused for a while
6. Alice in Wonderland quilt - no progress
7. As You Wish -  no progress
8. Crazy optical illusion - no progress
9. Memory quilt 2 - no progress
10. B quilt - no progress

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Ok, enough with the lists mommy, let's just show people who really is the one that works hard to get things done around here!!!

Ok, I think the design looks pretty cool! 

Let me check if you put all the colors in the right place...

Oh, this job is pretty tiring. 

I will sleep on it and I will get back to you with my feedback...

Now that I am rested, I think this design is good... 

However... I think it's a little too traditional, you need a modern spin!

I gave it a spin!! Now it looks modern!

What? You think you may have hard time sewing this design?

Well, that's ok, I still love you even if you don't appreciate my artistic contribution.

Ok, stitch the original design then!

Final layout: Modern Bargello :)

Dimension: 40'' x 40''

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Sneak peeks of my Tiny Quilt Challenge and the Halloween Haunts projects! :)

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And last, but not least, I want to remind you that I am working on charity quilts, and I would love your help!! Quilts are for a quilt drive to help the kids in the DC General Homeless Shelter. 

And you can help me by donating orphan blocks, partial blocks, or fabric (scraps, strips, leftover, uglies, whatever). 

If you are willing to mail them to me, I could use them to make more quilts for these kids!!! 

If you are up for a loving donation, please send me an email at tweloq[_at_]gmail[dot_com] or leave a comment here with your email address so I could give you my mailing address. I promise that your donation will be used to make some kids happy and feel more loved!! 

Cynthia sent me this wonderful donation! And I already planned the next baby quilt to feature some of those cute panels, so stay tuned for more baby quilts! Thanks Cynthia!!!

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How about you? What are YOU up to?

Link it here and share it with me!!

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