Spooky Road Quilt – Frank & Friends Meets Yellow Brick Road

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I had the Frank & Friends fabric collection sitting on the shop shelves for a while, and I kept noticing something interesting. People were favoriting the fat quarter bundles, but they weren’t necessarily buying them.

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Sometimes fabric just needs a quilt.

I wanted to make a shop sample that would show what these prints could look like once they were actually cut up and sewn together, and a friend suggested the Yellow Brick Road quilt pattern. It turned out to be a great match.

A Different Take on Halloween Fabric

One of the things I like about Frank & Friends is that it isn’t strictly black and orange.

There are the expected Halloween colors, but there are also touches of pink and mint mixed throughout the collection. It gives the fabrics a softer, more modern Halloween feel that works really well with the pinks and teals we’re seeing more often in Halloween decorating.

And then, of course, there are the monsters.

The little tossed monster print is probably my favorite in the entire collection.

There are also a couple of black prints with glow-in-the-dark details. The glow is fairly subtle, but you can get a stronger effect by exposing the fabric to a bright light or running a flashlight over it first.

Why Yellow Brick Road?

Yellow Brick Road is a very beginner-friendly pattern and uses 12 fat quarters for this size, so it was perfect for showing off the collection.

The pieces are large enough that you can still see the designs in the fabrics instead of chopping all of those monsters, houses and other Halloween details into tiny pieces.

Construction is also really straightforward. There’s plenty of strip piecing and repeated block construction, and much of the scrappy appearance comes from simply rotating the blocks as you assemble the rows.

I didn’t carefully plan where every fabric would go. Instead, I concentrated on spreading the different colors and prints throughout the quilt.

For the border, I chose one of the main prints featuring the little houses. Yellow Brick Road also gives you the option of incorporating leftover pieced blocks into the corners of the border, which I decided to do.

The finished quilt measures approximately 57″ × 75″.

Adding Lots of Texture With the Quilting

With so many different prints and no large areas of background fabric, I didn’t want the quilting design to compete with the quilt.

I chose the Merge pantograph from Longarm League, which has narrow, almost geometric lines. It’s a fairly dense design, so it adds a lot of texture without introducing another obvious motif on top of all those Halloween prints.

I quilted it with light gray Glide thread and my usual Quilter’s Dream 80/20 batting.

For the backing, I kept things really simple and used Charcoal Confetti Cotton.

Using a solid is a great way to save a little money on backing fabric, especially for a larger quilt. And simple doesn’t necessarily mean boring. The light gray thread against the charcoal backing really shows off the dense geometric quilting, so the back ended up looking great on its own.

The Finished Spooky Road Quilt

I’m really happy I made this one into a shop sample.

Yellow Brick Road lets the Frank & Friends prints do most of the work, and the easy construction makes it a fun option for a Halloween quilt that doesn’t require complicated piecing. I especially like how the pink and mint mixed with the traditional Halloween colors give the finished quilt a slightly different look.

And the little bit of glow in the dark is just a bonus.

Spooky Road quilt kits are available in the Treeline Quilting shop and include 12 Frank & Friends fat quarters, border and binding fabrics, and the printed Yellow Brick Road pattern. The backing is not included, so you can choose your own—or keep it simple like I did with a coordinating solid.