#spookyseptembersewalong2025

Believe it or not, I'm joining in the #spookyseptembersewalong2025 hosted by Laura @silversstitches and Fiona @spunstraw, and sponsored by @artgalleryfabrics.

Yep, I actually have plans for a Halloween-y themed quilt, which is a first for me. AND there are cats involved. I'm really looking forward to working with a fun black, orange, white, purple, yellow, and pink palette. Halloween palettes have really changed over the years, and I'm finally ready to embrace them.

My interest in the sewalong all started with the Boo-tiful Mischief Bundle by Sewtopia @sewtopia. (See the fat quarters stacked above and below.) I was so drawn to it, and went back to look at it so many times. So when I saw the sewalong, hubby encouraged me just to go for it, which obviously I am.

The pattern I'll be using is Bright Side by Meghan of Then Came June @thencamejune. It's considered a simpler version of her Sidewalk Chalk, which I made several years ago and still love. I've admired so many versions of Bright Side, that I wanted to make it too, and this seemed a good time to do it. The bundle consisted of 13 fat quarters, and the pattern called for 18, plus yardage of white and a black and white gingham. So I added a few more orange and black prints that you can see pretty easily above the gingham. 

My only quandary is if the different shades of orange will all 'work,' but I think so, so am going to start as if they do. (Thoughts?) If I don't like it as I get going, I'll make some changes. But meanwhile, I hope to get cutting before long. I need to finish up Ode to Joy before I really get going on sewing, so there's my incentive, and this my reward.