Here are a couple of pics of my quilts where I set the blocks on point and did some piecing in the alternate squares. I have a personal thing about representational blocks being in an upright position. That's just me, as you know, they are tons of basket quilts out there that are "tipped"
pear blocks with dark borders,set on point with
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basket blocks set on point, the butterfiles didn't bother me because they fly around in all directions
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