The Little Ghost Who Was A Quilt

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”~Eleanor Roosevelt

My cousin Melanie sent me a cute idea on Facebook recently. Someone had bought this book, then made their own little ghost quilt to match it. Since I work at an elementary school, and with kindergartners, I thought I might as well make my own little ghost quilt too!

First I ordered the book, since I didn’t own it. I wanted to look at all of the pictures and make sure my fabric choices would be similar to the fabric that made up the ghost in the book.

I pulled out blues and tans from my scrap bins and got to work. I decided to cut the squares for the quilt into 5 inch blocks.

Since I was making it up as I went along, I just kept cutting fabric with no rhyme or reason. The ghost quilt in the book has no specific pattern.

Making sure my blocks are 5 X 5.

I laid the quilt out. It is 8 squares X 8 squares. Although this is an easy quilt, I struggled because I wanted to put the pieces into some sort of pattern! I had to just lay them out. My only rule was that two fabrics that were the same couldn’t be next to each other.

I had the front all sewn together.

I decided to use leftover muslin from my blouse as the backing fabric. (See previous blog post, “A Simple Enough Blouse”.) I laid the muslin and quilt top with the right sides together. Both of these pieces were laid on top of the batting. I was going to do the flip method instead of quilting and assembling it like a traditional quilt.

I pinned all around the outside edge.

I sewed all around the outside edge, leaving a spot open for turning.

Once it was all sewn and turned, I close the open edge by top stitching, and also top stitch all the way around.

I then had to cut a face out of black felt. I pinned it on to try to get the placement right.

I decided to make him smile since at the end of the book he is. (No spoilers here, you’ll have to read the book yourself to know all about him.)

I used a hollow, styrofoam pumpkin and a selfie tripod to make him stand up. I was happy with him so off to school he went!

The kids loved him and the book. He’s now on display in our school library until November.

The Little Ghost Who Was A Quilt was a quick sew, and so much fun! It also inspired me to do some new things with my scrap! Stay tuned for that!

But by now you know I have more projects in progress, and in the works, so stay tuned for all of it!

As for me, onto the next!