Quilter’s Name: Susan Saxton from Beaverton, Oregon
Name of Pattern: Various Patterns Used
Featured Date: 10-16-24
Good morning! Believe it or not I have had a reminder on my phone for ONE YEAR to send you these “projects.” Note below when I attached the photos, even though I sent them in order, my computer organized them the way it wanted. I hope you can work with that (they are labeled). I am a better quilter than photographer, but here goes!:
My name is Susan Saxton and I live in Beaverton, Oregon. I have been sewing for 54 years and quilting for 25 years. The quilts below are probably the first I would grab and save in the event of a fire! I adore them 🙂

It all started one day when I was visiting one of our big annual quilt shows. Fall is my favorite season, and I was a newish grandmother of two. There before me was the cutest fabric I had ever seen! Vintage trick or treaters – the print so reminiscent of my own childhood. I HAD to make something with it!



The first project was for my grandchildren. At that point I had seen a concept on Simply Quilts – a “texture” blanket. Simple squares of cotton, minky, flannel and chenille. I do not quilt them (but you could). They are layered with a flannel back which keeps the layers from slipping around. They were a hit! Even the adults in my family wanted one!
The attached pictures show the love and wear these comfy blankets received by my now college-aged grandkids!


Next, I used a pattern I’ve used many times by Quilt Soup, “Cottage Comfy” and made a table topper. This was custom quilted with glow in the dark thread by my wonderful quilter, Stephanie. When my grandkids were little, we would “charge up” the quilt by keeping it under the dining room light for a while, then turn off all the lights! They loved reading the words (once they could read) and scramble to identify all the wonder fall shapes quilted into the topper.

You can see that the vintage trick or treaters were fussy-cut, making quick work of the yardage I had left, which was fast approaching the “swiss cheese” look.
I took the very little bit I had left and made a large wall quilt. This is a variation of a pattern with all strip sets on point. I replaced some of the strip sets with the precious bit of this fabric I had left.
Since this was many years after the original fabric was purchased, I felt quite fortunate that year to find and use for the strip sets a lot of “new” vintage-look fall fabrics that seemed to be the fashion that year . I really needed to have a good variety to achieve such a scrappy look.
This, also, was custom quilted with glow in the dark thread by Stephanie. She does incredible work and is truly an artist. She literally “draws” with her sewing machine!
And finally, I had so many bits and pieces left of the strip sets for the large quilt, I decided to put them to good use and came up with this simple idea to use them as part of a set of placemats. I quilted these myself with variegated decorative thread in fall colors, using many of the decorative stitches on my machine, and bound them like a quilt with an adorable, fall colored wavy stripe. I also made coordinating napkins, my second attempt at mitered corners. The back of the placemats match the napkins. I was so amazed and blessed to find so many things that coordinated so many years later!



I literally have shreds left of all these fabrics, but I have my projects intact and use them every year in the fall. Wonderful memories of all the fun I had making the projects, but also of sharing them with my grandkids over the years, and now that they are away at college, with other family and friends.
Thank you for the opportunity to share my projects from the heart, and a walk down memory lane!
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