The Halloween Quilt of Awesomeness!

Ok, so the story goes like this,

One day last weekend, my family and I were having breakfast at Dennys when M our daughter suddenly says “Wouldn’t it be funny if you caught Dracula squirting ketchup in his mouth because he was a vegetarian?”

Vince and I look at her, then look at each other and he says “Oh my God. That would make an AWESOME quilt pattern!” He motions for my trusty sketchbook and pencil and became so engrossed in drawing monsters and an entire quilt layout he hardly had a chance to eat before the bill came!

The kids and I start laughing and everyone started brainstorming.

We named our lead character VLADIMIR THE VEGAN VAMPIRE,

He needed some buddies, so we came up with MUMFORD THE MUMMY…

... LARRY THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON…

…and CARL FRANKENSTEIN!

Vince then sketched out a full quilt pattern using our Monsters and some other great Halloween themes. Some of which are on tap for next week’s pattern release!

As the photos came in from my amazing pattern testers Paul, Paula and Sarah, I called the family over to giggle and marvel over our cornucopia of comedic terror. To say we’re all thrilled would be an understatement!

And so I now release the first 4 of our Halloween Monsters for your sewing pleasure.

All 4 guys are now on sale until Halloween, October 31st, 2010 on my Etsy Store!

Here are the amazing tester blocks whipped up by the Testing Trio:

From Sarah:

From Paul:

and from Paula:

Paul is so excited about these patterns, he also whipped up a Carl Frankenstein:

I purposely flew through the pattern creation of Vince’s drawings so they could be available well in time for Halloween sewing!

Stay tuned for more Halloween patterns coming next Friday…