It's A Finish! Baskets in the Hollows

Baskets in the Hollows

58 x 72

Hand Quilted

I finished the top last December when I was trying to use up my '30s reproduction scraps. I first made a bunch of little Wonky Baskets from 2 inch squares and waste triangles. I used a lot of muslin scraps for the background. The blocks finished at 4.5 inches.  Then I decided to make Hollow Nine Patches for an alternate block and set the blocks on point. 

I did big stitch hand quilting with perle cotton #8 in a variety of colors. That process used up a lot of odds and ends of perle cotton.

I used more muslin scraps for the binding. And I noticed when I took these photos that there sure is a wide variety of different shades of both bleached and unbleached muslin! 

The big stitching forms a neat pattern on the backing. As you can see...I was a little short on backing fabric...

...but I made do! There's always scraps to fill in the blanks. 

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'30s Thursday

Little Wonky Baskets and Hollow Nines

in '30s reproduction fabrics.

58 x 72

It's a flimsy!

You know how one thing leads to another. Well, once upon a time (back in May) I made a Churn Dash quilt top from '30s repro yardage.  Then with leftover 5 inch scraps from making Churn Dashes  and some 2. 5 inch scraps left from other projects I made an Indian Hatchet (Ribbon Candy) top in October.  

Then the cutoff corners (waste triangles) from making those Indian Hatchets led me to make some Little Wonky Baskets that finish at 4. 5inches. I used muslin bits and pieces for the background because muslin (and Kona Snow) seems to go with '30s fabrics. Then I thought the Little Wonky Baskets looked kind of plain all by themselves so I used some 2 inch 30s repro scraps and muslin to make Hollow Nines as an alternate block for this quilt top. 

And now I still have some leftover cutoff corners I will turn into little Dinky Wonky Hourglasses. 

My next task will be to evaluate any UFOs in pieces I have made with '30s reproduction fabrics and decide what I need to do with each of those UFOs.