BOO!
Oh, I hope I didn't scare you.
Welcome to Melva Loves Scraps and the Out of the Dark Halloween Blog Hop.
Halloween has never been my favorite holiday... I'm more of a fall season girl with a love for cinnamon and spices and all of the nice-ness and the warmth that come with them... from late August to the end of November... with apples and pumpkins and the delicious goodies that can come from them.
I have seen the book The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt for a few years and have considered buying it for the granddaughters, but it was always too late. This year I started doing some early Christmas shopping and grabbed it. No... it is NOT Christmas, but I decided to send it to them for Halloween.
As I read through the book, I thought it would be fun to make some placemats that matched the book... something they could use all month leading up to Halloween.
I pulled out my scrap bins (Unmade Quilt bins) I started pulling fabrics that were similar to those used in the quilt that was a ghost. I used the inside of the book as inspiration.
With one laid out, Dave suggested that each of the placemats be a different color. I selected three other colors. We have a grandson as well as the 3 girls, but he is a 16-year old now and probably not really interested in the book, but he can have a placemat, so he is included. ;) I used 2-1/2" squares, BTW, making the placemats finish at 12x18. A perfect size for a placemat!
I sewed the blocks together to make rows and then used quilt as you go to join the rows together... I quilted the vertical lines and then added the faces.
Here's the book description...
Ghosts are supposed to be sheets, light as air and able to whirl and twirl and float and soar. But the little ghost who is a quilt can't whirl or twirl at all, and when he flies, he gets very hot.
He doesn't know why he's a quilt. His parents are both sheets, and so are all of his friends. (His great-grandmother was a lace curtain, but that doesn't really help cheer him up.) He feels sad and left out when his friends are zooming around and he can't keep up.
But one Halloween, everything changes. The little ghost who was a quilt has an experience that no other ghost could have, an experience that only happens because he's a quilt . . . and he realizes that it's OK to be different.
The author has a new book about the little ghost quilt... The Little Ghost Quilt's Winter Surprise. Yep! I bought it too. The youngest of the girls will be receiving a book collection as her Christmas gift and this will be in her gift, along with the Woman Who Swallowed a Fly. I love the classic children's books, and I have made certain that the grands have a good collection of them.
If I had to choose a completely different career... I'd like to be a librarian in the children's department. I loved taking my own girls to Storytime at the library and the fun crafts and activities that went along with the stories. Ok... now I am getting weepy and nostalgic, so I better go.
But before you go... Tell me...
Do you have a favorite Halloween storybook?
What is your favorite children's story?
I'd love to hear from you!
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Keep Piecing & Happy Fall Y'all!
Melva
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