I didn’t do much sewing during vacation (if you don’t count the quilting I did at Moms – which I don’t – it’s a totally different thing!), but I did manage to take just one day to get started on Aug-tober.

Last year, Mom and I went on a bit of a flurry buying a tonne of Hallowe’en fabrics. I bought mostly yardage, but I did get this layer cake, which was a mix of dark orange, pink, purple, grey and black Hallowe’en prints.

Though I searched and searched, I just couldn’t find any layer cake patterns that really tickled my fancy, so I decided to go another route… first I made some cats.

I made five of these super simple cat blocks. If they look familiar, they care the cats from Pins and Paws, of which I’ve made a couple of quilts.

Then I made some pumpkins.

Four Pumpkins to be exact. They were inspired by a few other pumpkin blocks out there, but I ended up graphing out my own to get them the same size as the cat blocks.

And that’s as far as I got.

Now Burton and I have to decide what to do with them. As you can see, we’ve got a general layout, but it’s not very big. We need to add in some sashing or borders to build it out to a lap size. The colours are a little on the dull side, so I’m having trouble matching it up with other stuff in my stash.

We will figure something out though. Burton is a creative little cat and always come through!