Mister Happy Hallowbones

This quilt comes from a pattern I picked up at store called Dee's Country Acccents while we were in Leavenworth for Rich and Angela's wedding in September, 2003. I couldn't resist! How often do you see skeletons on quilts? I started it as soon as we got home, in hopes that it would be complete by Halloween. I didn't buy a single fabric for this quilt, it was made from stuff I already had in my stash. Something I'm pretty proud of is how I adapted the kitties in the quilt so that they would look like our four cats (can you pick out who's who?). In any case, I didn't manage to finish by that Halloween (got real close... everything but the quilting). And, having lost my motivation as we neared the holidays (and Halloween became a distant memory), I set it aside.

I picked it up again a couple of weeks before Halloween in 2004 in hopes that this time, I might make it. I especially like some of the quilting motifs I did-- like the bats in the sky (done with a dark, sparkly thread). I also put a pumpkin, a spider and some webs in the grassy area. The tombstones have little epigraphs. I found a couple on the Internet, but I composed a couple of them myself:

Here lay the 4 Kitties of DOOM (in honor of our special undead kitties, depicted in the quilt)

R.I.P. Would you like your possessions identified? (in homage to Keith's many hours playing NetHack)