Oh, No, She's Using Salad Dressing Again!*

After I swapped out the indigo and caramel baskets, I put mine all up on the design wall and admired them for a while.  Then it dawned on me that even though Judi and Mary will each be bringing me one caramel and one indigo block next week, I'm going to be heavy on indigo and short on caramel.  What to do, what to do?  Well, duh!  Make two more caramel!

This is Simple Flower Basket, the first basket block I ever made and still a favorite.  It's the block I chose for the mini-block when I made my Piecemeal-inspired block this weekend.  So that was one done, now one more would be needed.

What about that basket block that Piecemeal designed in my honor?  Surely I should give it a try.  And so I did.

Except not quite.  I replaced the simple flower basket in the base with a Cactus Pot!  The marvel of Piecemeal's "basket with mini-block" designs is that a person can put any finished-at-4 block in that base!  I'm envisioning a quilt of the same basket block with all different mini-blocks inset.  Wouldn't that be smashing? 

So here's a variation on Piecemeal's #13 with the handle pinned in place for me to hand-stitch down very, very soon.  I just couldn't wait to share!



*If you missed the original reference to salad dressing, you can find it here.