Download these Halloween and Cats free patterns now, get the fabrics, and make two beautiful quilts for your home!
By now, you must have all your summer quilts done, so here are two projects for Halloween. I designed them for the whimsical collection Cat House by Mayo Moreno for Henry Glass Fabrics. Toadstools galore!
The first one is Meow Neighborhood. It measures 52″ x 60″ and features a super-cute panel surrounded by my favorite prints from the collection. Bugs, brooms, candy corn, funny pumpkins, and leaves – all depicted with gorgeous colors and humorous character!
Cats are the proud residents of the toadstool neighborhood. If you follow me on Instagram and Facebook (@piecedbrain), you know I have a love-hate relationship with mushrooms due to Toby’s penchant for eating them, be they toxic, poisonous, or harmless. HOWEVER, there is only love for the mushrooms in this artwork!
I love the colors, the shapes, and the facial expressions of the pumpkins. This is a must-make project!
Fun not Fright is the second of the Halloween and Cats free patterns you can download. It measures 63″ x 77″ and the finished block size is 13″. This pattern is also great for beginners because the blocks involve simple piecing without complicated assembly techniques.
Since I loved the prints so much, I had to find a way to display them in all their glory. Tiny pieces would not have worked for me! I used the diagonal-striped fabric – with pumpkins, cats, brooms, and hats – for the sashing and binding for added texture, and silver from the Folio Basics collection all around the squares to provide a resting place for the eyes.
Don’t forget this tip for when you have prints you love and do not want to hide in small parts of quilt blocks: select the simplest blocks you know where the components are large enough to showcase what you like. A quilt does not have to be intricate to delight the eyes.
What about those ghosts? You understand now why I chose a simple block design, right?
And… I had to include a pumpkin block. Stitch-and-Flip and a half-square triangle are all the things you need to know to make it. It was a fun disruption of the quilt design and a way to celebrate this iconic part of Halloween.
The brooms on this print are exactly the type I would be flying if I were (ahem) a witch, because even that I would not be able to get straight. Mayo Moreno was inspired while designing this collection!
I have a couple more free quilt patterns for Halloween for you – click here for details on how to download them. I do live in the present, believe me, but by focusing on Halloween, I am trying to escape this scorching heat wave.
Stay cool and sew on!
Leave a Reply