2016 Finished Quilts - 40's Basket Quilt - Quilt 2

This one is kinda a duplicate of posts, as I have posted about the process of finishing this one awhile back.  This one is one of my favorites, as it looks classic and fresh at the same time.  Right now it spends it's life on my mom's bed.

Each basket is a different pattern, making the quilt a sampler quilt.  I tend to lean towards the samplers.  I like making different block patterns.  I have a tendency to get bored if I have to make the same block over and over again.

I have not done a solid background before, and since doing it for this quilt back in January, I find I really like it for this quilt.  Not sure if I would do it again on other quilts, but for now, I am happy with this quilt and it's backing.

Next are the specific facts about the quilt:

Size: 54" X 72"

Fabric Lines Used:  40's Reproductions by Moda

Pattern: LQS Counter BOM

Designer:Diane Bowden

Long Arm Quilter:Carol Logan Nelson

Year Began:  September 2007

Year Completed:  January 2016

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Basket Quilt Finished

I finally got some decent pictures of this Basket quilt that came back from the long arm quilter at the beginning of February.  I showed you the following pictures in this post.

 The working on the binding.

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The folded finished quilt.

Close up of the quilting.

So here is the finished quilt laying on my mom's bed.

Again, I used the background fabric for my backing.  I am beginning to like this look.  Somehow it brings continuity to the whole quilt.  And again, I chose a solid color to do the binding.  Seems this is a pattern I am following to use on quilts that have reproductions prints in them.  This time I chose a bright yellow to finish this quilt and I think it gave it the right touch.

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The 40's Basket Quilt

I mentioned that I had gotten back three quilts from the long arm quilter, and I needed to add binding to them.  This is the first on that I did, the 40's print of basket patterns.

I needed to chose a binding color, and came up with 30's reproduction blue and yellow.

As you can see here (work in progress of putting on the binding), I chose the yellow.  This whole quilt was bright and cheery, I went with the the color that was just that, the one that looks like the sun.

These are the only pictures I picked to use for now (the weather here in the Pacific Northwest is not working withe blog picture taking) of this quilt. 

This is a close up of one of the basket blocks showing the quilting and one of the basket patterns used in the quilt.  If you look at the top picture of the whole quilt, you'll notice that each basket block is a different pattern.

I am really happy to see that this one is done, finished, complete!  It will fit a twin size bed and will look just right someday, when I figure out how to do some displaying of them throughout the house.  

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