I'm assisting Ruth with Programs at Foothills Quilters this year and she asked me to lead a Block of the Month. We decided on a redwork basket quilt. Here are the blocks I made to show as samples for the first month:
After collecting embroidery basket blocks over the years, it felt like a good time to use them, and put them together into a quilt for this block of the month project.
And so the planning began..............I searched the internet and found a picture of a quilt with a setting I thought would look good. Then searched through my stash of magazines to find pieced blocks to go with the embroidery blocks I'd collected. Oh, and in the process I was able to get my magazine stash all organized, by name of magazine and date, because I kept getting confused by the jumble. Turns out I had duplicates of quite a few magazines that led to the confusion. Now all those duplicates have new homes (yeah)!
As it turned out, I couldn't find enough pieced blocks in the search through my magazines, but then thought of The Quick and Easy Block Tool (kind of a book) and, happily, there were enough block patterns in there to make this idea work.
I decided to design a border for the quilt using embroidered flowers. Again I went back to the embroidery patterns I'd been saving over the years and found an idea I thought would work. I turned it into borders and viola.........here is the result.
Here's a better view of the quilt top:
We've now completed with and have shown the first two sets of blocks (January's and February's) and here are the blocks the Foothills ladies have made so far:
