Too Many Pictures of the Vertical Basket Quilt

Hope you're ready for a picture overload!  I am just so excited and overwhelmed at how well this quilt top finished out.  I've said it before, and I know I'll say it again, but the difference between initial inspiration and end result is often extremely hard for me to bring together.

Vertical Basket quilt top is finished!

I started out with my birthday (border) fabric, added a whole bunch of fabrics that I thought looked super sweet with it and let it set.  For a very long time. Every now and then I took the fabric out and played with it a little, taking one out and putting another back in.  What to do?  I had a vague idea of a Kaye England look and that was it.

Sometime it comes out just right in the end.

I came across a picture of this basket in one of my stacks of ripped out magazine pages and stuck that in with the fabrics, so then I was playing with the fabric and trying to imagine it working with that basket somehow.

And more detail....

One day I came across a picture of an antique quilt set in the vertical lay-out (working on a totally different quilt you understand) and it all just sorta clicked.

Even my 'off pink' block works.

But I'm slow getting started sometimes, don't want to rush anything.  The basket blocks gave me a few problems.  For a long time things looked a little iffy.  My colors not so warm and inviting like I envisioned.  The lay-out seemed maybe a little bland.  You know how it goes.  Lots of time simmering until I could be sure.

Love how it warms up in the right light.

Then finally, just attacking it and making myself decide.  And then in the end, that perfect moment of 'AHA'! The reverse applique pulling it all together in my mind anyway.  Which then pretty much made the coping/accent border decision a total non-decision!  No I did not miter the corners on the borders.  I like it like this.  It seems kind of ingenious and maybe like it doesn't even want to pretend to be an heirloom quilt.*wink