Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Easter Basket Quilt finished

I finished my basket quilt about 10 days ago but I was finally able to get some pictures. It seemed like when the sun was shinning I was not home and when I was home it was snowing. We have had a very wet spring. So without further ado here are some pictures of my basket quilt.

A friend said this quilt looked like Easter baskets since the color palette is pastels. I didn't set out to do that but I think she is right. I now think of it as my Easter basket quilt. It is currently hanging in my front hall to help celebrate the season.

I learned how to do the scalloped border which was a challenge rounding the corners and getting that to line up.

I used the bias bars to do all of the vines. They go from an 1/8" vine up to a 1/2" vine. The pattern called for yo-yos but I didn't want the texture they add so I just did circles. I think there are about 200 circles.

I did a leaf and loop background fill around the border applique. I wanted a more open fill. I really like how it turned out.

On the basket blocks I did stitch in the ditch around all the pieces then did some line dancing in the basket body.

For the chain blocks I quilted some arcs then did some fill in the arcs of leaves and c-curls.
I did machine applique and machine quilting of this quilt. It finishes at around 70" x 90". I used Hobbs 80/20 bleached batt so I wouldn't get background shading.

Check out the back. Isn't this print wonderful? It has miniature pastel quilts printed on it. I really love it. I got it on sale at 75% off. Hard to beat that.
It feels good to finish a project. And can you tell where I had to use a different green for the vines? I didn't think so.

12 comments:

  1. OMG... That quilt is FANASTIC! Beautiful job!

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  2. What a beautiful quilt! I love the colors and your workmanship is exquisite.

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  3. That's a beautiful quilt! Your quilting is just perfect for it. great job!

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  4. its lovely! I must have missed the green thing--the vines are perfect. Circles instead of yoyos, good choice.

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  5. Beautiful! I love the vine applique border.
    Congratulations on a lovely finish.

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  6. I am going to attempt to make a border like yours - it is exquisite! Any advice? Or link to directions? It's just gorgeous - thanks for sharing.

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  7. Thanks to Pintrest I was able to see this wonderful quilt! Absolutely beautiful!

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  8. I just saw your quilt posted at selvageblog. It was so gorgeous, I had to come to your blog and see if there were more pictures of it. What fun to find out it was made by someone I know! I LOVE this quilt! Have fun in Brazil!

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  9. This is a beautiful quilt. I love pastels and this is great! Do you remember what pattern you used - even as a starting point? My best quilting friend's mother wants a pieced basket pattern for Mother's Day. Many thanks and congrats.

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  10. Where do we get the basket pattern and what's the name of it? Barbara Cissne

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  11. Oh, my goodness~! I just found this blog page through an image search. I've got an idea in my head of how I want to do a DWR for my daughter and her fiancé with gold rings on a cream background, then with a blue border that has floral/birds applique. It's the same blue you've got here. I really like how you did this quilt. Glad to have found your blog. I'll have to surf around. :)

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