With the Stay at Home Order in Michigan we were unable to have the usual family Easter Dinner.  I decided to make bread baskets for each of my sons’ families and fill them with Grandma’s homemade rolls.  (Ha Ha, they are Rhodes frozen rolls.   But I do back them, and all my grandkids love them)

Thirty-some years ago I made baskets everyday.  Just like my fabric stash, I have a reed stash.  So I dragged out the reed, the clothes pins and a small table covered with an old towel and started soaking reed.

Since the reed was out and soaking, I decided to make myself a much needed garlic basket and one for my sister too.

Baskets were made, but I didn’t have enough of my homemade walnut stain, so my husband and I gathered walnuts from my parent’s yard.  Here, I’m boiling the walnuts to make the stain.  It’s a stinky job, and you need to keep watch so that you don’t boil over.

 

Stained and dried. That was a nice change for my creativity. Tomorrow back to quilting.