Riley Blake Haunted House Of Cards - Downloadable PDF

Riley Blake Haunted House Of Cards Quilt Pattern – Downloadable PDF by J. Wecker Frisch

The Haunted House Of Cards is a free downloadable PDF quilt pattern designed by J. Wecker Frisch and published by Riley Blake Designs. The finished quilt measures 45" x 88", making it a generous throw or lap quilt with a distinctly spooky, Halloween-inspired aesthetic. This pattern is ideal for quilters who enjoy novelty panel-based projects combined with structured piecing and decorative appliqué details.

What Is Being Made

This pattern produces a single Halloween-themed quilt centered around a haunted house design. The quilt incorporates two specialty panels — the Old Made Main Panel (P10590 Panel) and the Game Boxes Patch Panel (P10592 Panel) — as its focal points, surrounded by coordinating pieced borders and raw edge appliqué embellishments including a moon and a chimney. The result is a dramatic, story-telling quilt that combines panel quilting with traditional border construction and hand-embellished finishing.

Fabrics and Materials Required

The pattern calls for a carefully coordinated selection of Riley Blake Designs fabrics, all from the same collection:

• 1 Old Made Main Panel (P10590 Panel) – the primary focal panel
• 1 Game Boxes Patch Panel (P10592 Panel) – a secondary accent panel
• 2¼ yards Off White Text (C10594 Off White) – used for large background rectangles and structural piecing
• ¾ yard Black Snap Dots (C10596 Black) – used for accent rectangles within the quilt center
• ¾ yard Orange Snap Dots (C10596 Orange) – includes fabric for binding
• ¾ yard Orange Zipper (C10597 Orange) – used for Border 1 strips and the chimney appliqué
• 1 yard Gray Wallflower (C10598 Gray) – used for Border 2 strips

Additional materials required include ½ yard of 17" wide Paper Backed Fusible Web for the appliqué elements, Black Size 8 Perle Cotton for decorative hand stitching, and a 12" x 44" piece of Low Loft Cotton Batting. Note that this batting measurement likely refers to a specific component of the project rather than the full quilt backing.

Techniques Used

This pattern brings together several quilting techniques suitable for quilters with a basic knowledge of quilting technique and terminology:

• Panel quilting – centering pre-printed fabric panels as the design focal point, a beginner-friendly approach that delivers high visual impact with minimal piecing complexity
• Straight-line piecing – assembling large rectangles and strips with standard ¼" seam allowances, sewn with right sides together throughout
• Border construction – two distinct borders are added around the quilt center: Border 1 using 2" x WOF strips of Orange Zipper fabric, and Border 2 using 4½" x WOF strips of Gray Wallflower fabric
• Raw edge appliqué – fusible web is used to adhere appliqué shapes, including the moon and chimney, directly to the quilt surface without turned edges, creating a casual, textured look characteristic of Halloween and folk-art style quilts
• Perle cotton embellishment – Black Size 8 Perle Cotton is used to add hand-stitched detail, likely outlining or accenting the appliqué shapes for a charming, handcrafted finish
• Binding – seven 2¼" x WOF strips cut from Orange Snap Dots fabric are used to finish the quilt edges

Cutting and Construction Notes

The pattern provides detailed cutting instructions using both