No Words.......just a moment to slow down, to savour, to enjoy!

A pieced ,blossoming basket

has come together after 5 months of planning, cutting, marking, stitching, and embroidering.............

all by hand. 

You may remember I posted on this post

Petit Point Quilt

about Grace Snyder who inspired me to make my own quilt block.

by cutting hundreds of tiny triangles

which, when sewn together, make very tiny squares.

I decided to make a different basket design than the one

shown in the vintage quilt book

I hand cut and hand stitched each little piece

I then embellished it with my own hand embroidery

adding french knots and .....if  you look closely,

thorns to the rose stems,

and a lot of little lazy daisy stitches

I wanted  a pointed border frame to run around the design 

All together there are 3,200 triangles

which when sewn together make 1600 squares that

are 3/4 ".

the quilt, at the moment measures 28" X 22"  It will be a wall hanging.

I now need to place the batting and the back fabric on ,

and then hand quilt it all together.

I think I will name this quilt

" My Summer Basket" 

what do you think?