Sunday, July 31, 2011

BOM - Basket of Flowers




Made Fabric:

Cut one 9 7/8" block of made fabric and cut in half diagonally. 
(One half for the basket, use other to cut your next shape below)
Cut one 3 7/8" block of made fabric, and cut that in half diagonally for two triangles.


BACKGROUND Fabric:
cut 2 - 3.5 X 6.5" of background fabric (side rectangles)
cut 3 - 3 7/8" squares, cut each diagonally for 6 triangles ( top, around flowers)
Cut one 6 7/8" square of background, and cut in half diagonally 
(you will only use one half, bottom under basket)

Three Flowers:

You can use made fabric for these or three fabrics of your choice.
Cut  2 - 3 7/8" squares, cut in half diagonally, you need 3 triangles for flowers

Here's the layout.

Star assembly by adding your made fabric HST's to the background rectangles.
press open. 

 Add rectangles with HST's to your made fabric basket.
press open.
 Add your background HST to the bottom of the basket.
press open.
Sew one background HST to each flower HST/ top row,
 middle row, and bottom HST.
sew together rows, and press open,
 and Join it to your basket!


Easy and Oh! so sweet!

1 comment:

Alexis said...

I LOVE this block Victoria! I am really excited to make it!