Easter is almost here

Easter Basket quilt block

The Easter Basket quilt block is a relatively easy five patch block with half square triangles and a couple of rectangles thrown in for good measure.

The fun part of using some of the basket style blocks is that the motif is usually pointing at a 45 degree angle and therefore this leads to opportunites in your quilt. What is that you say?

By rotating the blocks by 90 degrees, they then work together creating a secondary pattern. This is usually a surprise because at first glance, that would not be evident.

So, download the free quilt block pattern and see what I am talking about.

An Easter thought for you

• Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.
  ~ Janine di Giovanni

"Earth Laughs in Flowers"

It is such a lovely sunny day today, that I just had to share this quote ... "Earth laughs in flowers." by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Earth day is later this week too and there are (finally) flowers popping up here and there, after this long and brutal winter season.

Today is Easter Sunday so it seems appropriate to feature the free quilt block pattern Easter Basket, one of many basket style quilt blocks. Use this one block to make your quilt or switch it up and make a sampler quilt using lots of the different basket quilt blocks.

Easter Basket

Flowers and laughter make us happy

• "Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you."
  ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan


• "Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into."
  ~ Henry Ward Beecher


• "Laughing is the shortest distance between two people."
  ~ Victor Borge


• "The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."
  ~ e. e. cummings

_{Baby Girl in Garden of Flowers - Image courtesy of David Castillo Dominici / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Easter Basket image © W. Russell, patchworksquare.com}