Halloween Selvage Spiderweb Wallhanging in Progress

 So here's what I was up to yesterday -- a little project combining both Halloween and selvages.  It still needs an outer border but so far it's been fast and fun to make. 

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I'm quite pleased with it, although being 100% honest, I think my spiderweb is a bit too free form and wacky.  I thought if I made it kind of crooked and random it would look spookier and more Halloween-y.  I guess it kind of does.  But real spiderwebs are actually very symmetrical, as I had a wander around our yard to look at some webs before I made this.  I think mine looks like my spider may have been drinking some beers before attempting the web-spinning.

 I have been saving these black selvages for the perfect project.  Nancy from our guild gave them to me along with a massive pile of selvages a while back.  I love the white writing.  I stitched them down with black thread.  The spider body is a 1 inch hexy.  The eyes in the middle of the hexy are actually a fussy cut bat from some Halloween fabric I had.

 I left quite a bit of space between selvages so I can echo quilt in there.

 Here is a process photo.  I drew the lines with pencil first.  And then, for the first time I tried using glue stick to hold the selvages down before I sewed them.  It was SO much easier this way.  Before I just held them with my hand.  Never again now. 

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If you would like to try to make a project like this, you can follow my Selvage Snowflake Tutorial.  I used the same method; I just drew a web instead of a snowflake. 

 These are my border fabrics.  They should really add some colour!

  Thanks for stopping by!

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Posted by Riel Nason on The Q and the U