Design Wall Monday - Week 44

Not Swoon! No, it's not done - it's just too big. It will end up getting laid out on the living room floor.
Not that this one is any much smaller.
Fall-gyle!
Lots of offset seams and bias edges, but it's going together faster than I thought it would. Which is good - I need something fairly simple to keep me sane in between Swoon blocks.
In unrelated news, it's my Blogiversary! Halloween is my favorite holiday, so it was a fitting day to start. I kicked it off last year with a picture of the Dude as a shiny turquoise dinosaur. This year his costume is just as shiny, but a little more subdued.
More on that tomorrow.
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Sunday Stash Report - Week 44

I'm very happy that I got it done before Halloween. The Dude snuggled under it after Trick-or-Treating in the town square last night.

I also worked on a different stash yesterday.
Before:

After:

My awesome Dad built the case and my awesome son sorted the colors and loaded it up.

Used this Week: 3
Used Year to Date: 112.78
Added this Week: 0
Added Year to Date: 152.95
Net Used for 2011: (41.17) yards

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A Hex(agon) on You! - Blogger's Quilt Festival

Hey look! I finished a holiday project before the actual holiday!
I used Jaybird's hexagons, block three, and her second layout. Mine are 6" unfinished, which comes to about 30" on each side and about 50x60" across the widest points.
 But my favorite part is definitely the quilting! I did a spiderweb in glow-in-the-dark thread. I had trouble picking a backing - I tried a glow-in-the-dark fabric but didn't have enough. Then I tried minkee but the stitches disappeared in the pile, which defeated the purpose. I ended up using plain Kona black, and it stands out so well.
{Ahhh, wind outtake!}
I had help with the quilting. My black Halloween cat wouldn't get near it, of course. Those things never act like a prop when I need one.
All propped-out in my front garden. None of that was purchased for this photo shoot - I like to make my front garden into an abandoned graveyard so I don't have to weed for Halloween.
The yellow is The Name Game by Quilt Country (Moda) - leftover from the borders of the Steelers. The Halloween fabric is mostly Haunted House by Alexander Henry or Spooktacular by Sanae (Moda.) All but two of the fat quarters came from my stash.
Interesting tidbit - the batting is black. And it does make a difference with the black backing and several of the fabrics - the gold is darker than it is in the Steelers quilt.
 
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{Bonus points if you can find the two other Halloween Hexagon quilts!}

{Also linked to Whoop Whoop Fridays, Stitch and Share, and Stash Project.}

Felt Food Friday - Banana

This felt food Friday is a cautionary tale.

If you want to make an adorably peelable banana...

Make sure the "skin" is cut bigger than the banana pattern.
Mine is from Simplicity 2445 - but this is an excellent tutorial that I will be retrying next week. Because this week's is just sad.