Basket And Bird Block Finished

The classic red basket of Baltimore Album quilts involves a lot of bias strips that you place into what mimics a silver bread basket like the one my mother used to have. This block also has a bird within the flowers in the basket, another common notion in album quilts though I doubt that birds were put in baskets of flowers even if they were stuffed birds. Those were more likely to be placed in glass cloches to keep the dust  and the insects at bay and displayed in the living room or ladies parlor.

This still needs to be trimmed prior to having the dogtooth border sewn on. I changed the colors on the butterfly to make it closer to ones I see around my neighborhood.