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Welcome to day 2 of Fabric Refresh Week here at Pieced Just Sew! If you're just joining me, you can see yesterday's post here. Fabric Refresh Week is pretty much like my usual Fabric Refresh blog posts where I refresh some of my patterns in new fabrics. The difference is that I'm sharing a new post every day this week and there is a special limited-time coupon code hidden in each post that can be used to save on that day's featured patterns!
Today I'm sharing one of my favorite Halloween collections of the year, Spooky 'n Witchy by AGF Studio of Art Gallery Fabrics. It might feel early to be thinking about Halloween with summer just getting underway, but it will be here before you know it and this is the time of year that holiday fabrics are typically released. If you wait until October to start planning, the fabric you want might be sold out!
Art Gallery has released similar Halloween collections for the past few years. I used Spooky 'n Sweeter two years ago to make a Stay Square quilt (I still need to take more photos and blog about it!) and I even featured it in a Fabric Refresh post. If you loved those fabrics but thought you missed out, be sure to check out Spooky 'n Witchy. Some of the prints are the same!
Let's jump right in with the first refreshed pattern, Ophelia. This jelly-roll friendly pattern also has instructions for fat quarters which is what you'll need to make this in Spooky 'n Witchy since Art Gallery doesn't have precut strips. Grab a fat quarter bundle, pick your favorite 12 prints in a variety of colors, and get sewing!
I have a tendency to fall into a rut of always using a white background in my quilts and I try to make a conscious effort to try out other background colors. One of the black prints in this collection has a very small candy print on it and the candies are spaced out a bit so that the print doesn't read as busy (the print is called Trick or Treat). I decided to try it as a background in my Ophelia mock-up and immediately fell in love!
I am so tempted to drop everything, buy the fabric, and make this for real! So far I'm resisting the urge because my plate is too full already, but I really hope someone makes this and shares photos with me because I think it looks so good!
Okay, before I move on to the next refreshed quilt pattern, let's get today's coupon code out of the way. Use code REFRESH20 to save 20% on all of the patterns featured in today's post. It expires tomorrow night (Wednesday, June 7th) at midnight Central time so don't wait and head over to my Etsy shop to start saving!
All right, back to the quilts! Since I loved the black print background in Ophelia so much, I decided that I would do a light and a dark version of each quilt in this post.
Unless otherwise noted, the black background fabric is the Trick or Treat print from Spooky 'n Witchy. The white backgrounds are solids and are intended to represent either Art Gallery's bright white Snow solid or their off-white solid called White Linen. I used the off-white for Ophelia above as well as this next quilt...
The Friendship pattern is another pattern written for jelly rolls. I don't have fat quarter instructions in this pattern because it's an older one from before I decided to start including fat quarter requirements in all of my precut-friendly patterns. However, if you want to make this with Spooky 'n Witchy, you will need 11 fat quarters. You can get the equivalent of three jelly roll strips from a fat quarter. Of course, you can always use more fat quarters than necessary and have even more variety and scrappiness in your quilt!
Next up is Metro which was written for honey buns or charm packs. Of course, Art Gallery doesn't have those available so I needed to adapt my mock-up to pretend I was using fat quarters. One of these days I plan to update all of my older patterns for fat quarters but in the meantime, these blog post details will have to do!
I made my Spooky 'n Witchy Metro mock-up as though I were using 10 fat quarters and cut the equivalent of three honey bun strips (1.5" wide strips) from each. I could have gotten five honey bun strips per fat quarter and only needed six fat quarters, but I wanted more variety. You could certainly choose six of your favorite prints and go from there!
The black accent in the light version is the same black print I've been using for the backgrounds in the dark quilts. The light solid used here is the White Linen again.
This next quilt pattern, Stay Square is layer cake friendly but it does also have fat quarter instructions! I had to make a Stay Square mock-up in Spooky 'n Witchy to see how it compared to my Spooky 'n Sweeter version that I made in real life (you can also see the digital version here.) This newest collection is definitely brighter. The neon green and the bright magenta in Spooky 'n Witchy make Spooky 'n Sweeter feel more muted. I actually wasn't sure how I felt about the neon green at first but once I started playing around in the EQ8 software, I think it works!
Both versions use the black print and the bright white solid Snow for either the background or accent.
Shining Stars is a fat quarter pattern so no conversions from precuts necessary! This star pattern is easier to make than it might look. It's another opportunity to choose your favorite prints since you only need 11 fat quarters to make this. The light version uses the off-white solid White Linen but I used the bright white Snow for the dark version so that it contrasts better with the lighter prints that I used for the stars.
The last quilt I have to share today is Good Fortunes. This is the one quilt where I didn't use that black candy print for the dark version. I stuck with a light background for the blocks in both quilts but changed up the sashing. Because the sashing is so wide in this pattern, especially compared to many of the pieces within the blocks, the sashing choice really determines the overall look of this quilt.
I went with the cream fabric with the black print that sort of gives a striped look for the light version (and the bright white Snow for the block backgrounds to contrast with the cream sashing) and the black print with spiderwebs and leaves on it for the dark version. This is one of the prints that has carried over across the various Spooky collections so I must not be the only one who really likes it! The dark version uses White Linen for the block backgrounds.
That's all for today! If you want to grab any of these patterns to use with Spooky 'n Witchy or another fabric, make sure to use the coupon code I mentioned earlier as soon as possible before it expires. It will be good until tomorrow night, Wednesday June 7th at midnight Central time.
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Be sure to check back here tomorrow for Day 3 of Fabric Refresh Week!
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Until next time,
Amanda
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