Halloween Two-Step (2025)

Meet my Halloween version of Two-Step.  

Halloween Two-Step

I worked on this quilt off and on in 2024, mostly at Scrap Club and as a leader/ender project. The top was finished in January 2025 at a quilt retreat and was finally quilted, bound and labeled in late May.

On the design wall at a quilt retreat

I quilted this one at home with my trusty walking foot and a decorative stitch that looks like baseball stitching ⚾ ... or maybe Tim Burton's Nightmare before Christmas. 💀

Pin basted and auditioning thread color

Chartreuse vertical stitches.   ⚾ or 💀?

The color palette was inspired by the pumpkin fabric on the back (Art Gallery, I think), and it was made with 100% stash.  Yay me! {pats self on back}

Love those little pumpkins 💜

Two-Step is found in the book Scrap School by Lissa Alexander and was designed by Amanda Jean Nyberg - Crazy Mom Quilts.

For me, quilts are generally Gifts, Donations, or Keepers.  This one's a KEEPER! 

At 52 x 64", it's just big enough for me, and I LOVE it!  🩷❤🔮🎃

Piece...

~ Cheryl

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While at Lunch (2025)

The point of this blogging/journaling journey for me is to catalogue past finishes and do a better job documenting them going forward. Would it be better to do these all in one post? Maybe, but that would make for a REALLY long post right?  So for now, here we go - one at a time. 

I have a group of friends that meet monthly on the 2nd Monday at the quilt shop - a day when The Dancing Bobbin is closed for business so we are free to carry on without interrupting anyone. ;) The idea when we started (2022, I think) was to form a small group for a few ladies that could use some quilty friends in their life. We each started with a copy of the book Scrap School by Lissa Alexander and chose a quilt that we thought would work with our stash, and Scrap Club was born. 

While at Lunch

This is my version of While at Lunch made and gifted in 2025 to a dear friend Sandy who loves sports, travel and the color blue. Almost all of the blues and grays on the top were from stash. The backing is a cute Rifle Paper Company print with foreign stamps with a blue grunge-like print on the sides. It generated a pile of HST's in blue/white and gray/white.  They'll find a home eventually. It finished at ~64" square and was quilted by my friend Michelle. She free-handed the little flower pattern while I sorted/folded fabric in her studio. Because that's what friends do. 💕