Antique Basket Quilt

Thank you all for your comments on last post. Judy and Laura, yes, it is great fun to take a look at old projects – well, most of the time, sometimes it’s awful and it would be nice just to get wild and throw the project out. Here’s an old project...that I wouldn't throw out, of course. An antique quilt that had ruined, lumpy batting, coarse quilting, and bad backing, so I took it apart and gave it new batting and backing. It awaits quilting and binding. Isn't the basket design adorable? The fabrics are a hoot.


The purple fabric above is a stretchy polyester ha! and is used for several baskets.


The basket fabric above is some sort of loose-weave linen or homespun.