Quilty Finish #1: Happy Halloween Scrappy Quilt

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Happy Halloween Scrappy Quilt #237

And those Halloween quilts?  Well, they never got finished until this year.  As I sat at home on Halloween night, thinking of my DGDs and missing them, I decided it was time to finish those tops I've been posting about for such a long time!  They are now finished and ready for gift-giving.

This quilt is for DGD#2, and I first posted about it here in 2015.  It measures 53" x 62" and is a nice throw-size. (I even have enough leftover blocks to make a 2nd quilt for me!)

>I'm also thinking of the other quilt projects that have been sitting on the back burner, just waiting to be finished. I can feel the excitement build and that itch that needs to be scratched.  And now I have the time to quilt.  I miss my DGDs but have also missed my quilting and am so glad to get back to it!

UPDATE: June 2020 ~ I wasn't sure when I'd see DGD#2 so I mailed it to her.  I wanted her to have it before Halloween 2020; and here she is with her Halloween quilt with lots of love from her grandma!

Front of Happy Halloween Quilt

Back of Happy Halloween Quilt
I sure do miss her and hope it won't be too long before we can visit again.

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