I made one little basket for the sneak peak – it will most likely be my one and only. I have not always been a fan of baskets, but this one was quick and cute (maybe I’ll change my mind when I see all the lovelies that everyone...

Here are my six Banded Basket blocks.  They were made using all the variations in the block directions: the basic basket block, the one with a base made of bonus triangle squares, the paper foundation pieced one, and three made with the 4 Flying Geese units made using the no-waste geese method.   The background fabric with the writing on it was made by me in a workshop using Thermofax screens at the NQA show a few years ago.  The workshop...

Love them or hate them, basket blocks seem to be almost as polarizing among quilters as Sun Bonnet Sue.  Because I love them, this month we are making this scrappy 6-by-9 inch (finished size) Banded Basket block using light/low volume/neutral fabrics for backgrounds, quilter’s choice for the basket and a coordinating solid or tone-on-tone (TOT) for the band and handle.  The base of the basket can be made from the basket OR coordinating...