cactusbasket Amanda's Cactus Basket - My mother remembers this quilt on her parents bed in Oklahoma when she was child of 6, so we are estimating that my Great Grandmother Burris must have made it sometime the end of 1920's and the mid 1930's. This quilt moved around with the family from Oklahoma during the Depression and WWII. It has lived in 7 states and by the 2000's was stained, some of the diamonds were threadbare, it had rips and tears and my Grandmother had attempted to machine sew two colors of red bias boarder on it. (My Grandmother wasn't a sewer.) I removed the red boarder, the hand quilting on the boarder edges, appliqued over the worn and damaged diamonds and white blocks that were stained and or worn. None of the red basket material needed any repair. Thank God because I wasn't able to find the color any where. I hand quilted over the repairs and added a boarder using the 1930's fabrics that I had used in the repaing the diamonds. (See Pictures for before photos of the damaged blocks.) As I was finishing up this quilt , I was also signing up to be a member of the "Quilt Show". I needed to come up with a log-in-name, so used the quilt block as my log-in-name.