October Cheddarback blocks

Are you keeping up with the Cheddarback blocks from Sentimental Stitches?  Here's what I have for October so far...

A couple initials using a Cheri Payne alphabet, and the larger blocks for this month.  I figured out how to do the flower basket by piecing rather than the partial applique.  That would never have looked right to me.  I usually machine applique with a zig-zag or a blanket stitch, and that just didn't seem to be in the spirit of the quilt.