Wednesday, March 09, 2016

Baskets on the Brain

I seem to have baskets on the brain lately.

















After putting together my free form scrappy baskets I found myself flipping through Edyta Sitar's book Handful of Scraps and was charmed by a beautiful basket quilt, also made from scraps but much more structured.

The squares finish off at 1" so the baskets really aren't that large - I think it's a 13" block when all is said and done. I'm lovin' the scrappy browns across the top edge of each basket.

I probably made mine the hard way, using up tiny scraps and sewing the blocks together individually rather than strip quilting, but it's supposed to be a scrap quilt, right?













The makings of three baskets are on the design wall. Thinking that they will become a table runner, I used the same brown floral for the base for the first two but now I'm thinking that I might make them all different. They are lots of fun to make and I'm tempted to see what a basket would look like in only one or two colours....M

3 comments:

  1. Your baskets are wonderful, Marie! Just charming. I wish I'd thought them up! Will you add handles or leave them as they are?
    --Nancy. (ndmessier @ aol.com, joyforgrace.blogspot.com)

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  2. Really great scrappy baskets! I'm in love.:)

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  3. I love the look of the scrappy squares but hate sewing them! I love the quilt on the cover too.

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