Saturday, February 23, 2013

Scrappy Baskets


Scrappy Baskets
 This quilt was a birthday gift for my friend Marty McKay.  She is Dalena's (my daughter-in-law) mother.  I made it using the last of the leftover half-square triangle units from Jamie's Desert Rock Star quilt.  This is another quilt that I just put pieces on the design wall and let the quilt tell me what it needed.  After making the baskets, I decided it needed flowers, but not in the baskets, because there was so much color in the baskets already.  After I put the vine on, I realized it didn't want a lot of flowers, just a few accents.  The applique was done using fusible machine-applique method. 

detail of Scrappy Baskets label
I wrote the label using a black fine-line permanent marker.

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