Sewing Baskets for Quilty Fun

I'm having a blast with the Quilty Fun sew along!

This week we're making Sewing Basket blocks.

These were sew easy to put together...

I think I spent less than an hour making mine.

I kind of named my blocks to myself, based on the fabrics...

this one is Bake Sale.

Then there's my Flower Sugar basket.

And finally the Vintage Modern one.

I used my Angler 2 tool to make this project so easy.

It saves a lot of marking

and adds more accuracy to my stitching.

Once I was done sewing the baskets,

I had a little stack of triangular trimmings

that just seemed a bit too big to throw away.

I decided to draw a line about 1/4" away from

the trimmed edge, at a 45 degree angle.

I stitched all of the little pairs together...

then pressed them open and trimmed them

to exactly 1 1/4" squares.

{I wonder what I'm going to do with these?}

I think I'll try to make more of those teeny little

half-square triangles, whenever I'm trimming

more blocks for the Quilty Fun projects,

and see what I can make from them later.

While I was photographing my blocks,

I discovered WHAT FUN it is to use Instagram!!!

I'm always a little bit late to the party,

but if you'd like to follow me,

my Instagram name is eamylove.

Hope to see you there!