Basket Puzzle

[karonray]

The bottom right is pieced together the rest is just there to work with. There are 6", 8", 9", and 12" blocks. I don't think I will use the flowered border but if I do the Cherry Baskets will have some of the flowers scattered around in them to take the color into the quilt. I rarely make anything smaller than a twin so I still have more baskets to make. I am not a pinner and have not yet use a pin in the construction. I will use pins when I put on borders.

[Mary J.]

Here is my basket quilt top. I’ve decided to piece my backing fabric with the left over red and white fabrics. 44 baskets in top with 6, 8, 10 and 12 inch baskets used. Mary Jean Eisenga

[SueGee]

Karonray, Love the houses in the right corner. I tend to agree with you about the flowered fabric. IF however, it were a larger scale print, it might work. Just a thought.

[SueGee]

I love the 3 houses too.....I put one 12 inch house in center of mine.....LOVE Houses!!! putting some hearts under my house today.....I may be able to show photo tomorrow.........Thinking of Alex......GO GIRL!!!!!!! and thanks for the blue quilt! Karonray!! Karen here....

[Janet M.]

I have been sewing baskets almost in my sleep to try to catch up. I now have them all done, they need to be joined together and then some applique done then I will start to think about the border. Loving these classes Alex, who would have thunk I would love making all those small HST's?

[Janet M.]

Love the colour scheme

[Janet M.]

Love your colour choices

[Paola B.]

Finally finished piecing my Baskets & Flowers quilt. New to quilting and this was a challenge. Made lots of mistakes that I learned from. First, I added two 9 inch baskets which threw the interior placement off which I tried correcting with fabric pieces rather than more baskets. Second, I didn't calculate the border using math and just chose the half square triangle size that I like...well, there was a shortage in the border that I had to fix with piecing. The four corners were a consequence of the math avoidance. It wasn't really planned to be that way. Anyway, I put a flange interior on it (which I like!) . Overall, I have learned some valuable lessons about planning. But I am happy with it. Once I put the flange and the border I began to like this little quilt. I thread sketched the flowers; they will be re-outlined once it has been sandwiched. The fabric for the flange will also be used for the binding.

[Karla M.]

PaolaRB
Fantastic quilt!

[Karen F.]

Finished

[Carmen S.]

KFox358, Love your quilt!

[Carmen S.]

First try at a layout....

[Karla M.]

CarmenD - very nice, love the colors. If you want balance could move one small dark background block from left to right.

[Karla M.]

Kfox358
What a great quilt!

[Patricia C.]

I had not made a basket quilt before. This was fun.
I had a few challenges, but made it work.