Baskets: Celtic Style

#502 - Baskets: Celtic Style $19.95

This is my second book, a continuation of my Celtic designs.  The book is 160 pages, with full size patterns for eight wallhangings.  I have included possible variations, some for large quilts, using the patterns provided.   For more variety, the patterns in this book are interchangeable with those in my first book, Celtic Style Floral Appliqué. Since that book is now out of print, patterns for the Celtic Style Floral Applique quilts are individually available.

Indian Summer - Changes
48" x 48"

This quilt was chosen for the cover of my second book.  Actually, it's the second choice of my publisher. I wanted this one on the cover instead so I voiced my opinion.  Indian Summer - Changes is one of those projects that developed a mind of its own.  I had originally planned to use the center of this quilt with the border of Out of Darkness - Hope.  But, after completing the center and part of the border, I decided that I didn't like the two together.  The simplest solution was to make two out of one!  Lots more work, but I was happy with the finished results.  This quilt won a second place and Judge's Choice at Quilt Utah.

Out of Darkness - Hope
59" x 59"

I had to make a new center for this quilt.  I decided to change to black for the background and came up with a new design.  I try not to make the same pattern twice!  The quilting is a combination of hand and machine.  A friend, Betty McFadyen, did the hand quilting with gold metallic thread.  She quilted feathered plumes all over the top.  I machine quilted meandering lines to fill in the background around the feathers.

Lois Love of Ventura, CA made Scarlett's Roses.  She was willing to make a sample for this book, so I gave her the Celtic basket pattern to use.  She chose the colors and other patterns that are in the quilt.  The fan block is Albertine's Rose Climber and is from Elly Sienkiewicz's book The Best of Baltimore Beauties Vol. 1(ISBN 157120086X) which is still available through places like Amazon, if you want the pattern for the fan block.

New Directions - New Beginnings
63" x43"

This was the first quilt I made for my second book.  I used two block designs from my first book and created two abstract basket designs to fit to half of the block designs.  All the patterns from the first book are interchangeable with the second.  This wasn't originally what I intended, but since I seem to use a twelve inch square for the base of most of my designs, they worked out so well that I think it makes the amount of usable patterns available from both books a good deal.

There's also a font that you can install on your computer that will also create Celtic knots. It's called the Celtic Knot Font and is available for purchase on this site.

I've also created a Celtic Quilts card deck for use with either Hardwood Solitaire or Solitaire City.  If you have either shareware game or are interested in them, visit My Solitaire Card Decks site and have a look.  The card decks are free for downloading.

This page revised October 28, 2006

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