Basket Blocks, Over the River and Cyclone Freddy

 Thank you everyone for your input on the basket blocks (previous post)! It really helps getting others opinion. 

I've been pondering what to do and in the end I decided to rip off the outer rectangles and replace them with Moda Marbles / neutrals.

This is how they looked like...

.... and how they look now. IMO, the rectangles were too busy. Now they actually look like baskets, don't they?! :)

A few more. The colors on the right one looks a bit washed out, brighter in real. 

This is my favorite so far. The colors are blue/greyish, really beautiful. Unfortunately I don't have more of the dark and light blue, they were part of a layer cake bought years ago. The dots fabric is part of some fat quarters I have left, may make something in blue and not include this one in the basket quilt. 

I'm still into PINK, but that will be for the Saturday post! 

I've totally forgotten to show progress on 'Over the River' stitchery

This is approximately half of the first section. 

My goal is to stitch a little bit each day, so far so good. Jocelyn over at Canadian Needle Nana is working on another gorgeous Crabapple Hill design; 'Snow Days'. Be sure to check it out here.  

Cyclone 'Freddy' paid a visit last weekend + Monday. It was a powerful cyclone with gusts ('eye'/center) at 225 km/h - 139.8 miles/h when it past North/Northwest of Mauritius late Monday afternoon. Fortunate it passed ('eye') about 140 km /  87 miles off the coast. We had gusts of 126 km/h - 78 miles/h, so it wasn't that bad. No damages to our property or in the area (we are about 50 km / 31 miles South from the Northern coast) High waves and storm surges mostly where the reef doesn't protect, and some huge trees down. Another cyclone is formed, but trajectory shows it heads South before it causes any danger to the Mascarene Islands.