Tuesday, July 2, 2013

fabric baskets

Last month at the McKinney Modern Quilt Guild we swapped bags of scraps. We were challenged to make a fabric basket with the scraps and return it this month to it's original owner. I received a delightful assortment of scraps from Joy and Sam, a mom and daughter who work at one of the quilt shops. I wish I had taken a picture of the form they filled out, it made me giggle! It said something like "Mom and I will put sewing notions in the basket and share it. Until I leave for college in the fall, then I will steal the basket". Obviously Sam wrote the note! Well, I knew right then I needed to make two baskets, and there were plenty of scraps. 

I had an idea for the bigger basket but I wanted to try it out on my own scraps first before cutting into theirs. So, I made this basket for Trae's birthday....

The patchwork part is English Paper Pieced with elongated hexies. I filled it up with gluten free snacks (since Trae is also gluten free) and attached a chalkboard tag that Ally made for me. 

Since I really liked the way it turned out, I did a similar one for Joy and Sam with their scraps...
I think that frog is my favorite part!

And tucked inside, is a smaller basket also made from their scraps. So now they can each have their own basket....
 I filled them up with goodies.

I hope they like them! I sure had fun making them.

5 comments:

Melissa said...

These are so cute! I do like the frog, too!

Sally said...

These baskets are great! I love the elongated hexie strips... that's an awesome idea! The International Quilt Festival was just in town a couple weeks ago, and I bought myself a few different packages of shapes for EPP.

I was just at a workshop with Victoria Findlay Wolfe and I fell in love with scraps! I still have to write up a post about that.

Maria said...

Love all your baskets Ellyn but the cute little pink one is my fav

Deb C said...

Those are wonderful! Now I want to make one!

Antoinette said...

What a cool idea! I'm sure they loved the baskets they got back.