Thursday, March 27, 2008

Bunny Baskets



Last week, I began working with the novelty Easter fabrics I bought in February. The bunnies were just too cute to pass up! After studying the fabric for several hours, I decided to go with a pieced basket block idea. I chose what's probably the simplest of all pieced basket blocks, a triangle basket with base and an appliqued handle. But instead of appliqueing a handle, I decided to fussy-cut some bunnies and fuse them to the top triangle. To hide some of the awkward cuts, I fussy-cut some eggs and fused them over the "holes" left where another bunny was originally.

For the baskets, I dug into my doll clothes stash for some trims like lace, rick rack, etc. My goal was to make each basket different in some way - no exact look-alikes! I'm pleased with how they turned out. Now I just have to decide how to set the 16 blocks I made.


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sandy,
Love the Bunny Baskets and the Irish block you did also.
Good Luck with you Blog and thanks for all the great designs you make.
Happy Quilting,
Carol in Delaware

LadyBugBetty said...

Sandy, I also love your Bunny Baskets and Irish block. Great job!

Good luck with the blog...I'm not a good blogger..have two don't know where the first one is! lol Lost it somehow...but I'll find it again. I just don't have time for them but I'll keep check on this one.

Betty in Louisiana
Betty2Max