Since November 17 is Homemade Bread Day, Penny Halgren, master quilt block maker, took the opportunity to demonstrate sewing a traditional patchwork quilt block in keeping with the theme. Most of the time quilt block patterns are made by dividing the block into a grid with the same number of patches across as there are up and down. The Bread Basket quilt block can be pieced by combining several patches, thus saving the quilter valuable time and money, and possibly freeing them up to make a loaf or two of homemade bread! The Bread Basket pattern, plus hundreds of other traditional quilt block patterns and free Christmas fabric postcard patterns are available on the site.

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