Friday Face Off - Halloween

Welcome to my blog.  Today I am posting my Halloween Weekend face.  There were several options for the type of face for a Halloween project, but I saw a certain hand dyed fabric in my stash and KNEW that it was made for this.  Thus, I decided on a Jack O'Lantern -and I made him a bit menacing in the spirit of spookiness.  This orange fabric spoke to me. I saw eyes and a nose right there in the fabric. I made a template to have it in just the right spot.   Then, I was excited to create this face!

The gradient dyed fabric that I used for the background adds a nice spooky feel also.

I see a fall night with leaves on the ground.

Then I added some hand-cut leaf shapes around the bottom 

of the Jack O'Lantern  to strengthen that imagery. 

After he was all finished as a nicely fused quilt top, I needed to 

decide on threads for quilting. I knew that I would need some 

greens and some oranges in my selection. I pulled out these 

shown below as a starting point.  I only used two of the orange 

threads in this group. However, I used three of the green threads. 

The variegated green was perfect for quilting the ground section.

I chose to quilt that in leafy quilting motifs. 

For the top I used a blue quilting thread that blended nicely. 

It worked well for the night sky swirly quilting. 

And here is an extra photo of the quilt placed in the 

ivy that is in the planter by my front door.

Some of you may know that I don't typically create seasonal items.  However, this one was a lot of fun, so I may do more small seasonal quilts. 

I am linking up with  DVArtist for the Friday Face Off.

  Clicking the link will take you to her blog.  It is great fun

 to see how various people interpret the challenge.

Until Next Time,  

Stay Creative 

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