U.B.E.'s
10-17-2012, 01:38 PM
#11
Power Poster
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 15,639
Your UBE might surprise you and become a gem after all. My blocks will come in handy when I want to practice FMQ. Not sure if it will be a QAYG or just a bunch of scrappy block sandwiches. Who knows, those might become potholders.
10-17-2012, 03:04 PM
#14
Super Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Small town in Northeast Oregon close to Washington and Idaho
Posts: 2,795
You know, I don't have any orphan blocks. None. I don't know why people do. I only make as many as needed. I guess I should make a couple extra on every quilt and then I could have enough to make a couple of sampler type quilts at the end. Good idea!
10-18-2012, 02:41 AM
#19
Super Member
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: N. Florida
Posts: 4,569
Originally Posted by justflyingin
Yep. That's what I'm doing with my QAYG quilt. You will see half of a star block, many halves of bento boxes, various 9 patches, some paper piecing practicing (I couldn't throw them away--horrors!) and some various leftover blocks (like the patriotic baskets). I decided to just add fabric around them to make them about 16" square and then trim them wonky. It's not particularly pretty, but it will be just as warm and while not PRETTY, it's "INTERESTING". It would have been esp. interesting if I had done interesting quilting. But I'm just getting to that....in my skills set.
10-18-2012, 02:46 AM
#20
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Windhoek, Namibia
Posts: 639
Originally Posted by francie yuhas
I take orphans and put them randomly on the backs of quilts for extra surprise
