Work In Progress

This is a quilt I've been trying to make for - brace yourselves - around 10 years.

It's a sampler from a beginner's quilt book I bought when a women named Martha Brown who I worked with years ago inspired me to want to learn to quilt.  I went out and bought all the supplies and the fabric I needed for the sampler.  It was very relaxing once I started piecing together patches to make blocks. 

 

That patch on the right, the basket, it made me quit.  I had such a hard time understanding the instructions for that block that I gave up.  I put the project away - for years.  Here's a closer look:

Here is the reverse side:

I got up the nerve around 3 years ago to finish the rest of the blocks and add some of the edge trimming.  I will finish and actually start quilting this soon.  It obviously needs to be pressed again.  It was all done by hand.  Here are more pictures:

 

I'll post more as I make more progress, but I'm sure it won't be too soon.