Little Baskets

 

Little Baskets

4 inch finished

Goal of 110 blocks met!

Started February 2023

I should have counted blocks before I made these last two batches because I have actually exceeded my goal and have 125 blocks. But that's okay because I think some might be a little wonky. 

I started making Little Baskets to go with some fabric I had with Little Baskets. And I had the book Scrappy Fireworks Quilts by Edyta Sitar with a pattern for Lil' Baskets Quilts that I liked.  I did not make my Baskets the same way she did.  There's more than one way to skin a cat, you know. Weird idiom. Who would even want to know one way to actually skin a cat? 

Well, I was going to use my basket fabric as the border, side setting triangles and alternate squares for the blocks but I see now I don't have enough so I had just enough of a brown with red flowers to use for alternate squares. 

Now...some assembly required. 

"Itty bits, fiddly bits" has been the theme in my sewing space this month to move UFOs forward. I still have lots of bits!

And sew on...

Monday Musings at SongBirdDesigns

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Sheesh, I can't believe I slept 11 hours. That rarely happens!

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Today is oldest son's birthday. I can't believe he is 52 years old today. Gosh, mentally I still feel like that 21 year old I was back then. Physically, everything is just a little saggier. And some things creak. 

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I finally have replaced my laptop that died this summer. I have been using my husband's Kindle Fire tablet to get around. I just hate touchpads and like to sit and type like the wind at a proper keyboard. I'm getting used to Windows 11 and all it's weirdness with wanting to put everything on Onedrive which I don't want. And I don't need synching up to anything because I rarely even use my phone. My camera cable no longer works to upload photos so I had to buy a card reader since laptop came without one and that is how I have uploaded the photos. But then again the darned photos are on Onedrive and I want them on my local PC.  Then I have extensive family history files, photos and docs...most research done before there was an Ancestry.com and DNA to do all the work for me...and my FamilyTreeMaker program (that I bought as a DOS version way back when and have upgraded along the way to FTM 2005) no longer works with Windows 11. It barely worked with Windows 10. So, I think I had all my family history files backed up to an external drive and I have purchased a new genealogy program called RootsMagic 11. So I'm getting used to that and want to better organize my family history files, photos and docs and then write stories about some of the folks I remember and stories about some of the things that have been passed on to me ("stories about stuff"). I wanted to get all this done before gardening season kicks in but now it is time for winter sowing. I am hoping to do some of that today. 

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Oh joy! I received a surprise package of scraps from Dawn! It was so fun to sort through all the pieces and think about what they will be when they grow up and become a quilt.