Cleo Basket Blocks

Sorry I haven’t posted for a while been very busy with holidays. Hope all of you had a wonderful Christmas and enjoyed the holiday season. And I wish you all the best in the New Year.

I've switched to the new blogger so I'm giving it my first try at posting.


I've been sewing on about 7 different projects over the holiday. I laid all the blocks I had cut out on a pile and I've been working my way to the bottom.

Here are some of the basket blocks I've been working on the book I got the pattern from called it Cleo Basket Quilt. Sorry I don't remember the book it was in. It was one I checked out from the library and I can't find it back.




I was stalled with this quilt because I just couldn't get the applique done. My sewing machine doesn,t have a button hole stitch that I can use for applique so I thought I would have to do it all by hand. I love the look of applique quilts. But really don't like appliquing by hand. Out of desperation I thought why not try a small zigzag stitch. Like Dah why didn't I know this would work? The results look wonderful. You can't see the dark thread on the background because it is so close to the handle. It hardly takes any time at all to sew on a handle. I have all the basket parts of the blocks done now. I finished them this weekend they where in the pile of sewing I'm working on. All I have to do now is get the handles on. Here's the ones I have done so far.









Lucy even looked over the handles and thought they looked as good as if I had
done them by hand.