Charlie’s Adventure

Cat Halloween Quilt Pattern

 

 

This is  Charlie.  Contrary to everyone’s belief, he has a sweet tooth that would rival anyone.  He would do anything to get a lick of ice-cream, watermelon, sweetened cream, or anything else sweet you can think of.

 

One day he learned that on All Hallows Eve,  if he puts on a wizard’s hat and a bow tie and sits very very quietly amongst the Jack-O-Lanterns, magic leaves will come and carry him to the land of the Seven Sisters who would give him lots and lots of sweets to eat.  So he came to me and asked if I would make a hat and a bow tie for him.  I was happy to oblige.

 

 

Pumpkins Halloween Quilt Pattern

 

 

As the evening approached, he wore his starry hat and bow tie, smartly walked outside, sat down in the pumpkin patch and waited very patiently.

 

 

Cat Eyes Halloween Quilt Pattern

 

 

Charlie has a very bossy sister and two very clueless brothers.  Although they keep a respectable distance from each other, they all love to play with Charlie.  His sister specially loves Charlie and keeps a wary eye on him at all times.   Charlie excitedly told her all about his plan.  She didn’t really believe him, but she was not about to let him sit outside all alone either.  Who knows what peril would befall her brother!  She was also not going to leave the other two out of sight, because then she would have to spend the rest of the night looking for all of them if they got lost.  So the bossy sister pushed the disgruntled brothers out the door and all of them surreptitiously waited a little distance away from little Charlie as the sun sank below the horizon.

 

 

Fall Maple Leaf Quilt Pattern

 

 

They waited and waited and waited some more.  Then, when everything had gone quiet, when all the kids had gone home after their Treat-Or-Trick runs and the Jack-O-Lanterns were about to go out, they heard a rustle and a swoosh.  Suddenly off they went, all four of them, carried away on gigantic leaves!  These were no ordinary leaves, of course!  On each one of them, a different adventure waited for the little kitties.  They stayed together, hopped around and rolled from leaf to leaf, played and had amazing fun.

 

 

Stars Quilt Pattern

 

 

All this time, while they were busy playing, the leaves carried them onward and upward to the Seven Sisters.  By the time the little kitties got there, they were exhausted.  They sat in the midst of stars and each had their favourite food to eat while watching the Jack-O-Lantern-lit Earth turning down below.  Charlie had his most favourite sweets to eat that day and nobody was going to stop him.  Slowly as the night got deeper, they fell asleep on top of each other and they were carried gently and silently back down to earth, down to their soft, warm beds.

 

 

Black Cat Crossing Halloween Quilt Top

 

My first-ever visit to a Pumpkin Patch

 

 

Black Cat Crossing Halloween Quilt Top

 

 

I had wonderful time drawing, creating the layout, and designing the patterns for Charlie’s Adventure.  I definitely had just as much fun as my little kitties.  Charlie was all right with sharing the story with all of you as long as he and his beloved Papa could have the quilt.

 

 

Black Cat Crossing Fall Halloween Pillow

 

 

At the last minute I also decided to make this little quilted pillow from the scraps.  I specially fell in love with the orange scene fabric and I really wanted to showcase it.  I will share more detail about the pillow next week along with its measurements so you can make one too.

 

 

My Kitty Charlie

 

 

Charlie sat here and supervised as I was writing the story.   Actually, he was trying to convince me to give him some sweet treats.  He was very disappointed when that didn’t work, “Nobody at home ever gives me anything!”  So he went off to bed to dream about his special All Hallows Eve adventure while snoozing with his pumpkin.  Supposedly the pumpkin gives him sweet dreams.  He wanted me to wish all of you a Very Happy Halloween!

 

I am off to enjoy a little more October magic!
-Soma

 

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Jack-O-Lantern Or Is It A Cat-O-Lantern?

Halloween Jack-O-Lantern Quilt Pattern

 

 

Every year for Halloween, we get two pumpkins for each one of us to carve.  I made two pumpkins for the Halloween quilt as well.  Just like I wouldn’t carve two pumpkins the same way, I didn’t want the blocks to be repeated either.  So I made a Jack-O-Lantern block …

 

 

A Halloween Cat Face Curved Jack-O-Lantern Quilt Pattern

 

 

…and a Cat-O-Lantern block.  Cat-O-Lantern is made from the same Jack-O-Lantern quilt pattern.  I only added whiskers and gave it a different mouth.  I can even mix and match. 

 

Until next time,
-Soma

 

 

 

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