Feels Like Fall Bundle Winners!

We hope you enjoyed our Feels Like Fall Blog Hop last week!

So many tutorials and fabrics to choose from, so little time!

Here are the winners of fabric bundles from the blog hop giveaways:

Day 1: Harvest Song

Day 2: Spooktacular

Day 3: Daily Zen

Day 4: Fall Festival

Day 5: Spooktacular

Day 6: Indian Summer

Congratulations, winners! We'll be emailing you for your full names and mailing addresses.

If you missed any of our autumn-inspired tutorials, you can find links to them here:

Day 1: Kelly from My Quilt Infatuation featuring the Harvest Song collection
Day 2: Christina from Sometimes Crafter featuring the Spooktacular collection
Day 3: Melissa from My Fabric Relish featuring the Daily Zen collection
Day 4: Benartex blog design team featuring the Fall Festival collection
Day 5: Debby from Debby Kratovil Quilts featuring the Spooktacular collection
Day 6: Erin from Why Not Sew featuring the Indian Summer

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Feels Like Fall Blog Hop: Day 6

Welcome back! It's the last day of our Feels Like Fall Blog Hop. We hope you've enjoyed the tutorials! Today, Erin from Why Not Sew is here with a beautiful leaf quilt--she used the entire spectrum of color in the Indian Summer collection, paired with the Burlap solids, to create this simple fall design. Erin chose the same Maple Leaf block as Kelly did on Day 1, yet the scale, layout, and fabric choices create a totally different quilt. We think you'll love them both! Enjoy Erin's tutorial and then scroll down to the bottom to find out how to win a fat quarter bundle of Indian Summer fabrics for yourself!

Hello! I am so happy to share this tutorial with you today. I made a fall themed lap quilt using the traditional Maple Leaf quilt block and fabric from Benartex's Indian Summer (the prints) and Burlap (the solids) lines. I made several blocks with different background colors to add some interest and warm it up a bit. Let's get started!

For each block you need:
 from background fabric,
1 rectangle, 4 7/8" x 9 3/4"
2 squares, 4 1/2" x 4 1/2"
 from printed fabric,
1 rectangle, 4 7/8" x 9 3/4"
1 rectangle, 1 3/4" x 7"
3 squares, 4 1/2" x 4 1/2"

For the quilt with a 4 x 5 block layout you need (20 blocks):
 from background fabric,
20 rectangle, 4 7/8" x 9 3/4"
40 squares, 4 1/2" x 4 1/2"
 from printed fabric,
20 rectangle, 4 7/8" x 9 3/4"
20 rectangle, 1 3/4" x 7"
60 squares, 4 1/2" x 4 1/2"

Start by taking the 4 7/8" x 9 3/4" background and printed fabric and place them right sides together. Draw a line down the center of the rectangle at the 4 7/8" mark. Then mark a diagonal line on each side of the center line like the picture. This will make four half square triangles.

Sew 1/4" from each side of both diagonal lines.

Cut apart on the drawn lines. Set aside.

Cut one of the 4 1/2" background squares on the diagonal. Grab the 1 3/4" x 7" rectangle.

Press the two background triangles in half wrong sides together and press the rectangle in half right sides together.

Lay one of the triangles right sides together with the rectangle, lining up the creases. Sew together.

Open it up and sew the other triangle on to the rectangle, matching the creases.

Press toward the background fabric and square this up to a 4 1/2" square. Square up the half square triangles also.

Layout the squares like this above picture.

Sew the middle column to the first column.

Sew the last column to the middle.

Press the squares in the top and bottom rows away from the center and press the squares in the middle row toward the center.

Sew the rows together and press the seams open.

**For the whole quilt cut your fabric, make the half square triangles for each block, make the stem units for each block, then layout all of the squares arranged like above and stacked on top of each other. Then you can chain piece the blocks. This makes the process so much faster and you'll have a quilt top in no time at all!

Arrange the blocks in a 4 x 5 layout.

Enjoy!!!

Thanks so much to Benartex for asking me to participate in the blog hop! I love this quilt! It's such a simple and quick project I hope you make one too.

Thanks Erin! Head over to Erin's blog to enter to win a fat quarter bundle of Indian Summer fabrics!

This is the sixth of six autumn and/or Halloween themed tutorials coming your way, from Wednesday, October 1 through Wednesday, October 8. Be sure to check out all six and enter for a chance to win a fun fall fabric bundle!

Here's the line-up:
Day 1: Kelly from My Quilt Infatuation featuring the Harvest Song collection
Day 2: Christina from Sometimes Crafter featuring the Spooktacular collection
Day 3: Melissa from My Fabric Relish featuring the Daily Zen collection
Day 4: Benartex blog design team featuring the Fall Festival collection
Day 5: Debby from Debby Kratovil Quilts featuring the Spooktacular collection
Day 6: Erin from Why Not Sew featuring the Indian Summer collection

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Feels Like Fall Blog Hop: Day 5

A spooky welcome to day 5 of the Feels Like Fall Blog Hop! Today, Debby Kratovil of Debby Kratovil Quilts puts her creative talents into a design using the haunting Spooktacular collection. From friendly spiders to potion bottles, black cats, and spider webs, Debby's design uses it all in a Halloween wall quilt for your home! Check out her tutorial and then scroll to the bottom to find out how you can enter to win a bundle of Spooktacular to create a boo-tiful Halloween project.

Spooktacular Fabrics by Benartex

BOO! Uh, I mean, welcome! Thanks for stopping by to see what I've got behind the curtain. Let's see what I've done with this fun collection of Halloween fabrics. I will be making the Snowball block to showcase these novelty prints.

First, I made a template out of freezer paper to center and view a motif. Can you believe this bottle of HELL FIRE!!? I showed it to my husband and told him that I might make a quilt out of it if he didn't shape up (ha ha; he's a minister!)

Fussy cutting a motif using freezer paper

I cut the freezer paper 6-1/2" square. Lopped off the corners at 2-1/2". Now I need to replace the corners with contrasting fabric squares. These are cut 2-1/2" with diagonal lines drawn on the back as shown below.

2-1/2" squares with diagonal sewing lines

I cut a variety of 6-1/2" squares from the other prints; but here you can see my placement of these orange print squares on the fussy cut HELL FIRE square from above. Sew on the diagonal line; trim away 1/4" as shown.

Sew on drawn line; trim 1/4" away. Discard small waste triangles

Then you need to press . . .

Press triangles outward for a neat 6-1/2" unfinished Snowball block

Some of the fabrics will use a black square . . .

Sew along diagonal line; trim and press

Just so I could keep track of where the squares will go and the orange and black triangles, I laid out my block parts before sewing. I call this auditioning.

Auditioning my color choices

Let's look at a few of the fun fabrics.

Happy spiders? Not the ones I find in my bathroom . . .

And what about bottles of funky brews?

Bottles of spiders? Essence of witch? Yikes!

So, what did I get? A happy, little Halloween quilt!

9 blocks with 1" inner border and 4" outer borders

(Follow this link for information about mitering corners like I did on my border.)

And? And? Anything else? Of course! Audrey came over and grabbed the rest of the orange and black cat fabric to make a set of diaper covers for newborn twins being born any day now to her husband's uncle. Here they are:

Boo! Twins born around Halloween need spooky bloomers!

Thanks for stopping by!

Thanks, Debby! For a chance to win a fat quarter bundle of Spooktacular, sign up to follow our blog (see righthand sidebar) and/or our Facebook page. Leave a comment letting us know that you are as well as telling us about the types of things you make using FABRIC at Halloween. the giveaway will be open through Friday October 10 at 11:59 pm EST. And be sure to head over to Debby's blog to say hi!

This is the fifth of six autumn and/or Halloween themed tutorials coming your way, from Wednesday, October 1 through Wednesday, October 8. Be sure to check out all six and enter for a chance to win a fun fall fabric bundle!

Here's the line-up:

Day 1: Kelly from My Quilt Infatuation featuring the Harvest Song collection
Day 2: Christina from Sometimes Crafter featuring the Spooktacular collection
Day 3: Melissa from My Fabric Relish featuring the Daily Zen collection
Day 4: Benartex blog design team featuring the Fall Festival collection
Day 5: Debby from Debby Kratovil Quilts featuring the Spooktacular collection
Day 6: Erin from Why Not Sew featuring the Indian Summer

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