Bat Disco Quilt Along – Week One

Written By Charlotte Raine

Choosing Your Fabrics

Welcome to Week One of the Bat Disco Quilt Along! 🦇 I’m so thrilled you’re here to sew along with me.

Bat Disco is a Halloween-inspired quilt, but with a twist: it’s all about fun and celebration. In my house, we like our spooky season to be more cute than scary — think friends, family, food and a little magic. This quilt is exactly that: playful, bold, and a joy to make.

Over the next few weeks, we’ll stitch it together step by step, and by the end, you’ll have your very own Bat Disco quilt to cozy up with for Halloween (or all year round, because bats are always in style!).

About the Bat Disco Quilt

Bat Disco is made from half-square triangles and snowball blocks — two beginner-friendly shapes that combine into a striking design. The pattern walks you through everything in detail, so it’s a fun make for beginners, but still satisfying for experienced quilters who love bold, graphic layouts.

And here’s the best part: you can style this quilt however you like.

Fabric Ideas for Bat Disco

This quilt has been designed in two versions - six colour or monochrome, but you’ve got tons of room to make it your own:

Monochrome Magic – Keep it sleek and spooky with shades of black, grey, and white. Perfect for a subtle Halloween vibe.

Classic Halloween – Pumpkins, Beetlejuice stripes, and witchy purples! Solids work beautifully here for that bright, festive feel.

Cute & Not-So-Spooky – Think pastel Halloween: lavender, mint, peach, and pink. A softer, more whimsical take.

Prints That Pop – I’m making a Liberty version using six different prints in darker, tonal hues. But you could just as easily go for vibrant modern prints, or even a scrappy mix-and-match style. Ruby Star Society is another great choice with its playful colours and prints.

Solids for the Win – Use your favourite solids for a bold, clean, and graphic design.

Ruby Star Society for a bold print.

Batty Background

The designs in the pattern show a white background to make the design pop but don’t be restricted, you could try black, orange, purple or even a vivid pink,

As well as using traditional solids for your background I also like to work with Essex Linen, it adds a contrasting texture if I am using Tana Lawn.

There are so many cute Halloween prints around including these from Moda and Dashwood Studio. I have teamed these with purple linen.

My Versions

  • Solid Fabrics: my original six-colour solid version plays with seasonal colours and turns up the saturation to really let the shapes shine. I used Art Gallery solids and you can find them all on my PreQuilt colouring page. A free online app to play with colour.

  • Liberty Bat Disco: I’ve pulled six moody prints for a darker but still very floral Halloween mood. I have to confess I don’t know all the names of the prints so maybe you can message me. It’s a great excuse to use the prints in my stash I don’t typically use when it comes to Liberty Tana Lawn.

Both versions celebrate that Bat Disco spirit — festive, a little quirky, and lots of fun.

Liberty Tana Lawn in Thorpe mixed with Essex Linen

This Week’s Task

  1. Choose your fabrics. Go spooky, go cute, go scrappy — whatever feels most you.

  2. Share your fabric pull. Post a picture on Instagram with the hashtag #BatDiscoQuiltAlong so we can all admire and cheer you on.

  3. Get ready for Week Two, where we’ll start cutting!

I can’t wait to see the incredible fabric pulls you come up with. So grab your stash, turn up some music (maybe a little disco with a Halloween twist ), and let’s get this Bat Disco started!

Bat Disco Quilt Along Schedule

Here’s what’s coming up over the next 6 weeks:

Week 1 – Fabric Pull
Show off your spooky (or not-so-spooky!) fabric picks.

Week 2 – Cutting
Get those fabrics prepped and organized.

Week 3 – Half-Square Triangles
Lots of HSTs = lots of disco magic!

Week 4 – Snowball Blocks
Cute, simple, and oh-so-satisfying.

Week 5 – Quilt Top Assembly
Layout + rows = Bat Disco starting to shine!

Week 6 – Quilting & Finish

Quilting, binding, and celebrating your Bat Disco!

Use #BatDiscoQuiltAlong so we can all follow along and cheer you on!

🦇 Bat Fact!

Did you know? Bats are the only mammals that can truly fly — their wings are actually their hands with super-stretched fingers!

Charlotte Raine