Spooky Season Sampler

The 2025 Blocks will be emailed to subscribers Oct 1 - 10! You can sign up here.

The nine designers for the 2025 Spooky Season Sample are:

1. Julie of Running Stitch Quilts
2. Sarah of Sarah Jean Makes
3. Tiffany of Village Bound Quilts
4. Lynette of Lyns Avenue
5. Satomi of Satomi Quilts
6. Donna of XOXSEW
7. Jennifer of Sew A Story
8. Kristin of Woolly Petals
9. Fran of Cotton and Joy

Riley Blake Designs is our 2025 fabric sponsor and supplied all of the fabric you see in the Sampler.

Each designer used a selection of colors from Riley Blake Design's Confetti Cotton Solids, in the following colors:

• Mediterranean
• Raindrop
• Bleached Denim
• Thistle
• Crocus
• Princess
• Autumn
• Tangerine
• Marmalade
• Butterscotch
• Golden
• Beehive
• Charcoal
• Silver
• White

Unfortunately, there is no kit available for this sampler, but we have fabric requirements in the section below!

These are the estimates for the Spooky Season Sampler 2025.

Please note due to the nature of the sampler, these are rough estimates and we've opted to include more fabric than strictly necessarily, so there will be some waste in the end.

• Sashing/Borders: 1.25 yards
• Blocks Background (white/light): 2 yards
• Black/Dark: 0.5 yards
• Dark Teal (Mediterranean): 0.75 yard
• Light Teal (Bleached Denim): 0.5 yard
• Orange (Tangerine): 0.75 yard
• Other*: 5 FQs and scraps (10" x 10")

*For the "Other" fabric, we recommend a selection of three purple FQs, two additional orange (darker and lighter) FQs, and three yellow scraps and one grey scrap.

The 2025 blocks were created with beginners in mind, however, this year roughly half of the blocks would be labeled "advanced beginner" or "intermediate".

Some of the skills included or required for the 2025 sampler -

• Stitch-and-flip / snowball corners
• Foundation paper piecing
• Small piecing (!)

Blocks will finish at 15" x 15" (15.5" x 15.5" unfinished).

After adding sashing and borders, the quilt top will finish at 57" x 57".

The blocks and finishing instructions went out to participants October 1 - 10, 2024, and were available to download until October 31, 2024.

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.

• Witches' Brew
• Mystic Cat Sees All
• Lil' Bit Batty
• Snowy Owl (full pattern coming soon from Satomi Quilts)
• Graveyard Shift
• Three Brooms
• Franky Steiny
• Flickers at Midnight
• Boo Ya!

You can download the 2024 finishing instructions here. 

The nine designers for the 2024 Spooky Season Sample were:

1. Julie of Running Stitch Quilts
2. Sarah of Sarah Jean Makes
3. Tiffany of Village Bound Quilts
4. Ben Millett
5. Lynette of Lyns Avenue
6. Satomi of Satomi Quilts
7. Lindsey of Pen and Paper Patterns
8. Donna of XOXSEW
9. Fran of Cotton and Joy

Riley Blake Designs was our 2024 fabric sponsor and supplied all of the fabric you see in the Sampler.

Each designer used a selection of colors from the basic Shades.

Unfortunately, there was no kit available for this sampler, but we have fabric requirements below!

These are the estimates for the Spooky Season Sampler 2024.

Please note due to the nature of the sampler, these are rough estimates and we've opted to include more fabric than strictly necessarily, so there will be some waste in the end.

• Sashing/Borders: 1.25 yards
• *Blocks Background (white/light): 2 yards
• Black/Dark: 1.25 yards
• Other*: 7 FQs

For the "Other" fabric, we recommend at least 1 Green FQ, 1 Medium Grey FQ, and 2 different yellow FQs. The remaining 3 FQs can be a selection of Halloween-y fabric.

[*] If choosing a color other than white for the blocks' background, reduce this to 1.75 yards, and add 1 White FQ for Day 3 block.

The blocks were created with beginners in mind, however, there are some blocks that skewed more towards confident beginner. Some of the skills included or required for the 2024 sampler -

• Stitch-and-flip / snowball corners
• Foundation paper piecing
• Small piecing

Blocks will finish at 15" x 15" (15.5" x 15.5" unfinished).

After adding sashing and borders, the quilt top will finish at 57" x 57".

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
• Hallowpop
• Spooky Dracula
• Candy Corn (no longer available)
• Haunted Window
• Eerie Adobe
• Coven Crown
• Spellbound
• Edgar Allan Crow

You can download the 2023 finishing instructions here. 

The nine designers for the 2023 Spooky Season Sample were:

1. Julie of Running Stitch Quilts
2. Sarah of Sarah Jean Makes
3. Tiffany of Village Bound Quilts
4. Ben Millett
5. Nicole of Modern Handcraft
6. Lynette of Lyns Avenue
7. Satomi of Satomi Quilts
8. Corinne Sovey
9. 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.