Black and White Baskets

You're probably wondering if the only thing I have done in the last few days is shovel snow and cook.....the answer is no. I started watching season 2 of "Lost"  with the hubby, he is always overjoyed when I spend time watching TV with him. I also got some sewing done. I finished up a teddy bear for a client. It's made from her dad's shirt......isn't he cute!

And I finished up another UFO!!!! I combined the leftover black and white blocks from the dead chickens quilt with my basket blocks which came from the Wild Threads group swap.

 Now with all this snow, I thought some red would heat things up! I like how this turned out. These are my favorite three basket blocks.

And that is a witch on one of the basket fabrics! For the back, I am using another quilt top I did. My group, the Wild Threads, did a round robin. I like the individual parts but not how it looks as a whole.

And I was also involved with a strip swap block making adventure with the Wild Threads (say that three times really fast). I made all kind of blocks with my strips. Here's some of them.

Now I made these blocks in all sizes and shapes and stiched them up. And I hated the way the middle looked.....sooo......I took the round robin top and appliqued it to the center of the strips top!!!!  Viola! I love how it looks now!

Sometimes you just gotta take some chances and get out the scissors! I cut the middle of the strips top out from underneath the round robin after I was done with the applique.

So this will be the back to the black and white baskets. I am going to quilt it with bright red thread and bind it with red binding. Any suggestions on how to quilt it?? I have those big empty black and white blocks that I could do something pretty in......hmmmm....thoughts??

Enjoy the day!

kathy