It's a flimsy!
It's a top!
Flower Baskets
65 x 78
The May theme in my sewing space to move UFOs forward is "Baskets".
I can't believe I started making Flower Baskets back in 2020
I love Basket quilts and had Googled "flower basket quilt" or something like that and when I clicked on the image I liked my Norton Antivirus came up with the message that it was a malicious site so I drafted my own pattern from the picture. I made 9 inch finished blocks from scraps.
The complete block set has been in my SAR (Some Assembly Required) bin for quite some time so all I had to do was assemble but before I could do that I had to figure out what to use for side setting triangles. I usually don't have a lot of pieces of fabric over a yard so I was thinking I might have to go with some scrappy flowers for the side setting triangles. I looked in a little box of floral fabrics and that multiflowered piece that was left over from yardage I used long ago for a backing practically jumped into my arms. I didn't have quite enough but with a little "poverty piecing" I made it work. It was meant to be.
And sew on...
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REMEMBER, TREASURE, GROW, READ (my words of the year)
I've finished two books from the 8 books in the Resistance Girls series by Hannah Byron. -- In Picardy's Fields and The Diamond Courier.
I've been so busy working in the gardens as weather permits - weeding, planting, sowing. Ended up with "tennis elbow" from repetitive motion using a garden hand tool with fork on one side and hoe on the other. Also chipped my front tooth when I bit off a torn fingernail. (My other front tooth was chipped when I was a freshman in high school and someone pushed my head into the water fountain while I was drinking.) Took pics of what I thought were two wild turkeys roosting on barn roof but then thought they might have been turkey vultures. I was going to study pics closer but ended up accidentally deleting them, darn it. Been harvesting, eating and sharing asparagus from the garden. I was looking through a lot of my old cookbooks for new recipes for asparagus and noticed a lot of old recipes use asparagus in egg dishes. I also have shared some of my rhubarb crop but havent used any yet myself. Since John can't eat I hate to make a whole rhubarb dessert for myself.
Hubby John on antibiotic and steroid after they saw something on his chest Xray. He has swallow test on Wed. to see if speech therapy will help him learn to swallow food/drink without aspirating. He sure hopes so!
Thanks for all of your comments the last few posts. I promise I'll reply soon!
16 comments:
I love this basket quilt top and the floral print for setting triangles is perfect. A plainer fabric would not have been better.
oh no two chipped teeth. I have been slowly over the years getting old teeth replaced with crowns as my cavities from my younger years were huge and didnt' have good dental care I'm glad I have been able to do this one tooth at a time. Take care of that elbow I have had that happen to me and it took forever for the swelling to go down I believe it was ice packs that I strapped in place and then kept it cushioned well too so I wouldn't bump it.
LOVE your flower basket quilt!!! Very colorful and joyful!!! Unusual block!!! Funny story--that's happened to me before, too, where my computer threatens me to not open a page!!?!
Cathy, your Flower Basket quilt is gorgeous! Now you've got me wanting to make one. I love the flowery print you used for the setting triangles, too. Hope your gardening is going well, in spite of the injuries. It's time to plant here in Colorado!
That's such a sweet top, pretty baskets full of colourful blooms.
This is one glorious quilt top! I hope you're going to keep this one for yourself. Wishing your hubby all the best with that upcoming swallow test.
Once again, you are inspiring me. I received a lot of floral prints a few months back so I'm saving your photo for future reference. It is a very good one to finish during the month of Mother's day. I love the print in the setting triangles. Your poverty piecing is excellent because I can't find which one it is. Lol. Enjoy! ;^)
This is such a beautiful basket quilt that you drafted, Cathy!! Lovely work!!:))) Hope your DH gets good test results...hugs for a good upcoming week Julierose
That setting fabric is P-E-R-F-E-C-T for your beautiful baskets! Well done. Sending good wishes for the results of the swallow test.
A beautiful Flower Basket quilt Cathy, this reminds me of the stunning antique quilts I've seen now and again in some of the classic quilt books. I love all the colour in this !! Hope all goes well for your husband.
What a gorgeous quilt! It’s just bursting with flowers and color! That is one perfect border fabric. I hope your husband’s test goes well.
Your floral baskets quilt is super. I've never seen that particular basket design. I'm so glad you finished the top and shared it. Hope all goes well with hubby's appt.
You know I am partial to basket blocks. Yours is delightfully different -- and complex. Thanks for linking to the pattern you worked out. Hope John's appointments go well for you both.
"Poverty piecing". I love it. Quilters used to do that regularly. Your reconstructed basket quilt is charming.
Pat
What a delightfully uplifting basket quilt, Cathy! :)
I haven't seen this flower basket pattern before, and I love it! I hope your husband gets a good report.
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