What's the Spooky Season Sampler?
Nine pattern designers coming together to create nine free quilt blocks celebrating the spookiest season of all!
Every day between October 1 and October 9, the Spooky Season team delivers a new, free block pattern directly to your inbox.
How can you join?
The team has put away their brooms and hung their hats for the season, but we'll be back in 2024! Keep an eye out for announcements in September 2024.
In the meantime, you can follow the Instagram hashtag - #SpookySeasonSampler.
Looking for the 2023 Blocks?
The blocks and finishing instructions went out to participants October 1 - 10, 2023, and were available to download until October 31, 2023.
At this point, some of the designers have made the blocks available as downloads on their websites (some free, some paid). For information on each block, look at the list below:
- Skully (no longer available)
- Hallowpop
- Spooky Dracula (full pattern coming soon)
- Candy Corn (no longer available)
- Haunted Window
- Eerie Adobe
- Coven Crown
- Spellbound
- Edgar Allan Crow
You can download the finishing instructions here.
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Have questions about the Spooky Season Sampler? We have the answers!
Please take a look at the FAQ below, if we've missed something, please reach out through email at hello@cottonandjoy.com!
General FAQ
Each block will be 15" finished (15.5" unfinished).
After adding sashing and borders, the quilt top will finish at 57" x 57".
Quilters can sign up for the 2024 Spooky Season Sampler in late September 2024!
Keep an eye on my newsletter or Instagram for the official announcement.
The blocks are created with beginners in mind, however, there can be some blocks that skew more towards confident beginner. Some of the skills included or required for this sampler -
- Stitch-and-flip / snowball corners
- 60º triangles
- Piecing curves
- Foundation paper piecing
- Small piecing
2023 Spooky Season Sampler
The blocks and finishing instructions went out to participants October 1 - 10, 2023, and were available to download until October 31, 2023.
At this point, some of the designers have made the blocks available as downloads for free or paid on their websites. If you'd like to acquire the blocks, please visit the links below.
- Skully (no longer available)
- Hallowpop
- Spooky Dracula (full pattern coming soon)
- Candy Corn (no longer available)
- Haunted Window
- Eerie Adobe
- Coven Crown (full pattern coming soon)
- Spellbound
- Edgar Allan Crow
You can download the 2023 finishing instructions here.
The nine designers for the 2023 Spooky Season Sample were:
- Julie of Running Stitch Quilts
- Sarah of Sarah Jean Makes
- Tiffany of Village Bound Quilts
- Ben Millett
- Nicole of Modern Handcraft
- Lynette of Lyns Avenue
- Satomi of Satomi Quilts
- Corinne Sovey
- Fran of Cotton and Joy
These are the estimates for the Spooky Season Sampler 2023.
Please note due to the nature of the sampler, these are rough estimates and we've opted to include more fabric than strictly needed, so there will be some waste in the end.
- Background: 2.75 - 3 yards (this includes 1.25 yards needed for sashing/borders)
- White/Light: .5 to .75 yard
- Black/Dark: 1 yard
- Other*: 6-7 FQs
For the "Other" fabric, we recommend at least 1 Yellow FQ and 1 Orange FQ. The remaining 4 FQs can be a selection of Halloween-y fabric.
Riley Blake Designs was our 2023 fabric sponsor and supplied all of the fabric you see in the Sampler.
Each designer used a selection of Confetti Cotton Solids and prints from the Haunted Adventure collection.
Unfortunately, there was no kit available for this sampler.