month two of five: Vintage Trick or Treat

Month TWO is here!
in the second installment of the stitch-along of

Vintage Trick or Treat by Crabapple Hill ...

a class that I'm leading at the lqs.

This month's assignment piece was

the banner that runs along the top of the quilt:

It was a quick and easy piece to stitch -

not a whole lot of stitching,

and the stitching that was there was not a solid fill stitch.

Also included in this month's assignment:

finish up your nine-patch blocks...

press toward the dark in your strip piecing,

then spiral or pinwheel the seams open on the back when

pressing the nine-patches

(spiral seam example on bottom left):

The pattern suggested cutting out 200+

1 1/2 inch squares then piece them into 9-patches.

I recommended the strip piecing method...

using only a quarter WOF strip...

not quite as scrappy looking when finished,

but also not as daunting to those newer quilters.

I shared before that I was going to change up my colors

from the pattern recommendations.

You can tell from these pics that I'm living on the darker side :)

And I like it - I like it a lot!!!

Here's the finished center:

Next months' assignments: 

• Trace and stitch the two small blocks from the right side of the pattern: Squiggle Mouth & Scaredy Cat
• finish up any remaining nine patches
• piece together the four pin wheel blocks that are needed for the corners of the quilt
• go ahead and put together the four "corner blocks", using your remaining nine-patches and the pin-wheel blocks you just made
• get your tracing done for The Gang's All Here block

Happy Stitching!!!