Circle Halloween Quilts!

Last year our quilt group exchanged Halloween circles and made Halloween quilts... I went a little crazy... I made three!!! The first I made for a friend who loves Halloween. This is the first quilt I've given away, which is quite a compliment! It's smaller so it can be a display quilt or wall quilt. I love it... and the binding is actually glow in the dark!

The next one I made for myself and I love it! The jack-o-lantern border is especially fun! I put it on my couch from September 1 until Thanksgiving!

This last one is totally different, but I love it too. I have it on our love seat from September 1 until Thanksgiving! I have been tucking it under since I didn't have the binding done. I bought this fancy tool to help me do the binding quicker and I couldn't figure it out. A friend came by this week and helped me with it and we got it done! I love the striped borders and binding!


And I had to share the back of this quilt... I had so much Halloween fabric from making all those circles, that I decided I couldn't buy more... so I pieced this together and I think it turned out pretty cute!



Now can you believe I still have Halloween fabric left over? What am I going to do with it all?

Fondant

On Friday, I went to Fabulous Friday! It's a night of crafts & fun! One class I took was cake decorating! How fun! We each got a 2-layer cake to decorate. Lots of tips on how to ice it smooth and then we got to try some fondant! We were supposed to be making a Halloween cake, but since my icing turned out kinda pink I used the candy corn cookie cutters to make flower petals instead. I think it turned out pretty cute!

Birthday Banner!

A good friend asked me to cut some letters and scalloped rectangles to make a banner. She purchased this banner from MyEmmyCakes. A friend of hers really liked it, so she wanted to make one that said Welcome for her birthday. Here's what I made for her. She going to decorate with ribbons, etc.



I used Mini Monograms & Storybook Cricut Cartridges to cut these.

SPOOKY!

I met with a group of girlfriends last night and we made this banner & cute Frankenstein bag! The banner looks fabulous. The picture doesn't even do it justice!


Isn't this bag cute! I absolutely love it!

Here are the 3 cards I made for our swap. Our challenge this month was difficult for me. We had to follow these card template challenges:


This is my favorite. Here's the sketch challenge for it.



This card was the first I made of the three. It's not my usual style, but I still like it. Here's the sketch challenge.

Here's the last one and the sketch challenge for it.

I finished my pinwheel blocks!

Here are the last four blocks I made for the pinwheel trade. My favorite is the one with the light blue background and pink flowers. I'm so excited to get the rest from the others so I can start my quilt!

Blackberry Pie

My absolute favorite pie is blackberry. My grandmother & father made the best blackberry pies, but of course I don't have the recipe. And even if I did, mine wouldn't be as good! I remember asking my dad for recipes. He would always say, oh just a little of this and a bit of that, until it tastes/looks right. Grandma & dad didn't use recipes... they cooked from skill. Something I just didn't inherit. But I try!

I was coerced into going blackberry picking the other day... even though the season is all but over. About an hour later I had several scratches, dark purple hands and about 1/2 flat of blackberries... it was hard picking.



I'm used to the blackberry picking of my youth where if you couldn't get a flat in 10 minutes it wasn't worth your time. But I was happy we ended up with enough for a pie.



And since I was making a pie anyway I decided to make more and use up some of the 48 pounds of peaches I have... I made a full size and three mini size blueberry peach pies.



I feel very domestic!

4 Ingredient Easy Cobbler

I made this cobbler yesterday trying to use up the 48 pounds of local fresh peaches I bought. It's so easy & yummy. I did have to increase the cook time from 30 to 50 minutes.



I've really been enjoying this new recipe site: Tasty Kitchen. Everything I've tried has been delicious!