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Boos and Ghouls: Fabric Stacks and Cutting Instructions {Quilt Along}

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Welcome to this week’s installment of the Boos and Ghouls Quilt Along. Thank you to all who are participating! You can link up below anytime during this week. But of course, you can join in anytime. So if you have a craving for ghost blocks come February, you know where to turn.

Boos&Ghouls Quilt Along button

Today we will be covering cutting. But first, fabric!!!

When I first set out to make these Boos and Ghouls, I envisioned an entire quilt top made of purple and orange ghosts with black and white backgrounds.

Boos and Ghouls Quilt Along Fabric
Stop the presses. I have more orange that purple! Who am I?!

But, instead I’m going to keep it simple and not over commit. (I literally have 4 quilt tops to quilt as this goes to publish! Eep!) I’m just planning on 2 mini-quilts made from black and white.

Boos and Ghouls Quilt Along Fabric

I also raided my scrap pile for usable scraps. These are at least 2 1/2” square.

Boos and Ghouls Quilt Along, Usable Scraps

Okay, now for the cutting. The minis will finish at 20 1/2” x 22 1/2” and each square will finish at 2”.

Boo Cutting: 

White (or what will be the ghost) 

From the white, or your ghost fabric, cut:
– 32 squares 2 1/2”
– 4 squares 2 7/8”. Note: I just cut 3” squares here.
– 2 rectangles 1 1/2” x 2 1/2”

Black (or background)

From the black fabric, or your background, cut:

– 68 squares 2 1/2”
– 4 squares 2 7/8”. Note: again, I just cut 3” squares here.
– 2 rectangles 1 1/2” x 2 1/2”
Boos and Ghouls cutting
Boo fabric

Ghoul Cutting: 

White (or what will be the ghost) 

From the white, or your ghost fabric, cut:
– 31 squares 2 1/2”
– 5 squares 2 7/8”. Note: I just cut 3” squares here.
– 2 rectangles 1 1/2” x 2 1/2”

Black (or background)

From the black fabric, or your background, cut:
– 68 squares 2 1/2”
– 5 squares 2 7/8”. Note: again, I just cut 3” squares here.
– 2 rectangles 1 1/2” x 2 1/2”

Orange (or bow fabric)

From the orange fabric, or your bow fabric, cut:
– 2 squares 2 7/8”. Note: again, I just cut 3” squares here.
Boos and Ghouls cutting
Ghoul fabric
One more note on fabric selection: For the eye pieces, or the 1 1/2” x 2 1/2” rectangles, I chose to use the same black and same white fabrics for each the eyes on one ghost. I am afraid that using different fabrics may give the ghost a lazy eyed appearance, which actually could be a win given that they are ghosts. Anyways, thought I’d share. 
Now, time for the link up! I’d love to see your fabric pulls. Thanks for joining!

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  2. Kenzi says

    Thanks for the cute patten! I don't have a blog to link up for pics, but I did have fun cutting and selecting fabrics from my stash. I can't wait to see how this turns out! I'm hoping to make it into a cute pillow 🙂

  3. jNm manderscheid says

    This is such a wonderful pattern. So glad I stumbled across it on IG. I'm going to do just a bit of an variation to it. I will be sure to post!

    BTW I also live in Texas and hate that our fall almost nonexistent.

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