I showed the Basket Blocks from grandma's treasures before - one of the commission pieces. These were all a tad bit different in size and I trimmed enough to keep points and to get them at least square. Then I put a sashing around each and trimmed them all to the same 12.5" unfinished size block.
This gave a 'squared' quilt to work on. The little bits of differences are not that noticeable. This was the first quilt I worked on and it has sat for the end mainly: 1. I wasn't sure how I wanted to quilt this and 2. the muslin I ordered (12 yards) was used up with the first three quilts - so not 12 yards! Honestly two quilts 68" square and one 72" x 82" and I only use an extra 2" each side when laying out for home machine quilting ( my thrifty side). Please, my math is not off. I will figure on the high side and say I used 7 yards, but there was just about 10" x WOF (90") left. I am very disappointed and yes, I let them know.
My two banquet tables side by side - 72" square is a little hard to fit in a photo - no, I don't climb ladders for pictures. It's been decided to do a very open all over quilting as some of the basket fabrics are a little fragile.
The sun is shining, most of the snow has melted off, and I have my Monday planned,
Sewingly Yours,
Sharon
7 comments:
This is beautiful and the blocks with extra fabric round them shows off the design so well. Let the sun shine all day.
It looks great. Nice save for those blocks. Never nice to find you've been shorted.
Love it. It looks beautiful
Beautiful quilts.
Looks wonderful.
What a wonderful heirloom it's going to be when it's all done.
Those baskets are so pretty...I want to go sew some of my OWN!
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