Wow! The work table is flooded!

 It has been just pouring rain these last few days.  The sun is out  now so I hope I am not tempting fate with the open umbrella!  I have baskets on the table, a Noah's Ark quilt and some bunny fabric ideas. oops, I forgot about the Rooster's mending!  :(   I've no time for anything other than a flood of ideas!

This was the general idea for the basket quilt.  I will put the applique posies at the top.

The wall hanging should actually be a bit wider but I could trim the sides down if necessary.  The background of these baskets is a white on white print, a tone on tone.  I like them but this has been in the stash a long time and I remember why;  the print is painted on and a real pain to applique!  :{

But the narrower sashing is much better as it is less busy and doesn't overpower the baskets. And I want to see those darn painted flowers in the TOT fabric background.  ;)  I really kinda want to leave my focus fabric of polka dots in the quilt.  :}

I got a huge selection of bias tape at a thrift sale and was thinking of a vine with circles.  But I had an aha!  What if I did flower stems?

 Looking through my paper circles for a size I found this checkerboard circle.  Cute.  I'm sure I have some checkerboard fabric.  :)

These baskets are proving to be a very time consuming quilt!  My ark needs floating.

And my bunnies are wanting to get hopping!  Cutting the most bunnies that I can may mean doing these blocks on point.  :O

My camera sure doesn't like focusing on dots!  But I do think I have a plan for finishing!

I need to stop the flood that is washing away my time! vbsigh  But I do wonder what kinds of floods (ideas,  projects, fabrics, finished projects, mosquitoes, etc.) the gals on TN&TN are experiencing

Wow - a wild fire...

Who knew this little block would cause me to burn my fingers a number of times. Not to mention sending steam out my ears!  :(

I spent Tuesday morning  arranging my basket parts on my design wall. I have a few very dark colours to spread around.  I think I am good to go but I need to applique the handles of one block to see if everything really fits.  While I sipped my coffee and sandwich I perused the early episodes of  The Quilt Show.  Show number 210  has Alex demonstrating how to make a four inch Postage Basket block.  She has a couple of good and time saving techniques.


I really don't mind hand applique.  But I must confess that this has been a busy month sew...

I had already prepared my bias handles so the machine stitching on one side wouldn't have saved me anything but a card board for positioning was wonderful.

The centre with the body of the basket measured a wee bit bigger than my drafted copy.  :(  Sew I did the expedient thing; it is my quilt after all.  I lengthened the white rectangle between those little footies an half an inch and it all works.  sheesh 

It is feeling a bit more traditional than I wanted which makes me want to change the setting.  Hmm, what if...

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