One of the things I love about Baltimore work is the ability to embelish like crazy. Hence the block shown, it is made up of 4 large ribbon roses, using french wired ribbon, about 2metres for each rose. The wired ribbon behaves well and allows the rose to be formed to look lovely and vintage, crush the rose after completion and you achieve an even older look.
The basket is made up of a rich brown fabric using a large bias maker to form it easily, I then slip stitch down some yummy thin obre ribbon as a highlight to the basket shape.
This is one of my favourite blocks, however I may not use it in the finaly quilt as it is not the most practical block for washing, using the quilt etc, but would work for a wall hanging. If doing this block maybe using a dior rose would work better for a quilt that will be used.
