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| Beth Shibley at Live Laugh Quilt |
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| From Dianna at Wedding Dress Blues |
And somewhere in the middle of all of that there's an extra block. Yepper. 64 blocks needed. 65 blocks available. What does divide evenly with 65? 13x5? That's an odd quilt size.
But we can't waste it, can we?
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| From Lily's quilt |
No one sews evenly every time. Inexplicable things happen to your fabric that sometimes makes a block too large, too small, just unusable. Aren't you glad you made an extra?
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| From Jess at Life Under Quilts |
A left over block is a wonderful starting space for a new quilt. It's like a special seed sitting safely in your sewing room, waiting to become a wonderful new and different quilt.
It's not new either, although it always looks modern because it's largely random. Now we call them Orphan Block Quilts. But we've always had left overs and we've always served them up later.
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| From McCalls Quilting |
- Put it in the center and put borders around it.
- Add an extra kind of block to fill in.
- Add an odd and unexpected element.
- Put lots of left over kinds of blocks together.
- Give up on the quilt idea and make something else: a tote bag, a pillow, decoration for your jacket, a pot holder. This goes on forever.
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| Orphan Block Quilts |
I always have orphans. And they come just like you wrote...sew, sew, sew, count..ooops, one or two too many. Or change the plan and now I need one fewer than I thought I needed. I made an orphan block quilt in the QAYG pattern and the charity recipient actually loved the back better than the front. I laughed. (We give away a lot of quilts here in Poland.)
ReplyDeleteI love to just let the extras pile up for that day when there is nothing to do and I am feeling extra creative. By the time that day comes along, I usually have a big pile to play with!
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