Halloween La Pass continues

Hello everyone!

I have been very quiet on here recently, and that's mostly because I have stalled a bit on the #focuscuttingsewalong. But I haven't lost my sewjo entirely, and the onset of the spooky season has me pulling out my Halloween La Passacaglia quilt to work on again!

It's been a while since I have done anything on this, so the first thing I did was lay out everything I have done so far, as a sort of stock take.


It's a bit less than I thought, but not to worry. I am still limited in what I can do on this, due to lack of fabrics, but I think I was putting some more artificial limitations on myself, telling myself I couldn't so certain parts until other parts (that I don't have fabric for) were done. I have taken these limitations away and that has felt incredibly freeing, because now there is a LOT I can do without any further fabric purchases.

I started by deciding I needed to join the two large rosettes together with a grey path of stars (there is an overall colour design that I am working to). I have as actually had some of the pieces for this basted and sitting around for well over a year.




I worked on a couple more rosettes using this bird skeleton fabric.

I also located 3 black narrow diamond fussy cuts and added them to some rosette centres I already had.



The one thing I have needed to buy more of is some little triangle paper pieces. These are so small that they don't survive a lot of reuse and there are literally hundreds of them in this quilt. They are also something I definitely have the fabric for (they are almost all blenders - I draw the line at fussy cutting something that ridiculously small hundreds of times). So as soon as they make their way through the post I have lots more I can do! In the meantime, I will keep finding other little corners I can plug away at, and slowly grow this quilt.

Thanks for reading!

Linking up to the Peacock Party and Can I Get a Whoop Whoop?

Comments

  1. Wendy @ Wendysquiltsandmore16 October 2021 at 21:41

    That's going to be so cool! There will be so many things to find in your quilt when it's finished. Happy Halloween.

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    1. Genevieve Gerrard17 October 2021 at 19:27

      Thanks very much Wendy, and Happy Halloween to you, too.

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