Saturday 4 January 2014

Another Q4 2013 FAL finish

Yay another finish to link up to She Can Quilt and the Q4 2013 FAL.  In my original list, goal number 23 was to do something with a stack of orphan blocks that have lingered for far too long!  So, I decided to turn the butterfly into an Open Wide Pouch:


When looking through all my orphan blocks, the lovely R2D2 jumped out at me and said 'pouch' so I decided that he should be made into a drawstring pouch:


Here are the backs of these two pouches:


I also gave nine blocks away to a lady named Barb.  You see, after reading my blog post about my 'Fabric Fast', she suggested that I could send her any unfinished projects or blocks so she could finish them and incorporate them into a quilt and donate what she makes to charity!  I jumped at the suggestion and sent her nine of my poor orphan blocks that I KNEW I would never use.  I also sent her a couple of fq's and some scraps.  Good effort Barb :)

This means that 11 orphan blocks now a new mom life - yay!  Happy days!

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12 comments:

Charlotte said...

love the butterfly pouch - fab use of the orphan!

Catherine said...

The butterfly is beautiful!

linda said...

Love the Butterfly Pouch good thinking !!
I am waiting to get my laptop back then I will blog about the journal have not forgotten ...love it by the way !!

CapitolaQuilter said...

adorable butterfly and placement of fabric for the wings, so cute!

Lorna McMahon said...

That butterfly pouch is the sweetest! Good for you, passing along those blocks to be used in making a charity quilt! You done good!

Turid said...

Ooo, that butterfly pouch is super cute!

Kristy @ Quiet Play said...

Love the pouches - great way to use some orphan blocks!

Pennie said...

Love the butterfly! Xx

DeborahGun said...

Just love the R2D2 pouch so much :-) A great way to use that block.

moira said...

Love that butterfly pouch x

Indianna said...

Beautiful butterfly and what a joy to be rid of some blocks to such a good cause.

Di said...

The butterfly block has been turned into a pretty pouch. What a nice idea to let Barb turn the orphan blocks into something useful. Di x