Halloween Cobblestone Quilt

I've wanted to make a Halloween quilt for the past couple of years (and even made a cute ghost mini quilt last year) and after weeks of looking at all the spooky Halloween quilt progress pictures on Instagram I decided this is my year!  The lovely ladies at The Fat Quarter Shop sent me a fat quarter bundle of Hocus Pocus to make their new Cobblestone quilt pattern.

I started off in the kids' playroom playing the game of "arrange the fat quarters so no two colors and patterns touch each other".  It's a fun but frustrating game, especially when switching two pieces around means you have to make four more switches to keep the rules going, but I did come up with a layout that I liked.  I put the eyeballs right in the middle because they were what attracted me to this bundle in the first place!

After I was happy with the layout I started cutting.  Only three big rectangles from each piece of fabric so it went really quickly!  It's pieced in strips, which also was very fast.

After I had the top pieced I decided to quilt it in a style I've been wanting to try for a long time: straight line zig-zags.  The only reason I hadn't tried it before was that it never seemed to fit any of my projects, but it was the perfect spooky addition to this quilt:

Here's a picture from the back.  The straight lines are the ditch stitch lines and the quilting lines are spaced one inch apart.  This makes a perfectly snuggly quilt.

And the final finished quilt! 

As always, it's my new favorite and I'm so happy to have a fun Halloween quilt for Halloween this year!  The boys are very happy to have this one stay at home with us and keep trying to steal it from me.