First, I found this on the blog from Frances Arnold, a fellow quilter as you can tell:
How true!
And the same seems to be true of orphan blocks. Here’s the box with mine, despite my having made multiple quilts from them recently.
Here’s the latest top made from orphan blocks. It will go (eventually) to Flying Horse Farm, a camp for children with serious illnesses.
Blue Sky and Sunshine, 60″ x 72″
And here are a few more made from orphan blocks.
Quilt made using orphan blocks and the BQ5 pattern from Maple Island Quilts.
But look back up at that full orphan box. I think orphan blocks must follow the same rule as scraps!
What do you do with orphan blocks?
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I got an idea! How about an orphan block swap challenge? Swap 10 of yours with ten quilters (you keep one of your own as you’re one of the ten quilters) and you each have to make an orphan block quilt out of the ones received. Maybe add incentive by assigning the finished quilts by each of you to be donated to a specific ’cause’. Probably you’ve already done something like this, but I’m a bit spunky this morning and thought I’d blurt it outloud here in your comments! HA!
What a great idea! I once tried to get one of my guilds to swap orphan blocks but I didn’t have the idea as well developed as yours and everybody just wanted to get rid of theirs, not take blocks from others! I’m going to think about your idea–thanks for that!
You are the queen of orphans blocks – awesome quilts made from them! I love the settings!
Thank you, Tierney!
I am very impressed with the way you’ve made quilts from your orphan blocks! I can’t believe how many of them look like they go together, especially colorwise! That’s pretty amazing. I would be very challenged to go into my orphan block box and come up with enough that, together, look cohesive – whether in colors or in sizes. Surely your box is less full now.
Thanks, Linda! And I’m sorry to say the box is NOT less full…what’s up with that?
Since getting a nudge from one of your previous posts (!) I try to use leftover strips and orphan blocks on the back of the same quilt.
Congratulations on these four orphan quilts. I particularly like blue sky and sunshine
Thanks, Mariss! Blue Sky and Sunshine is going to a camp for seriously ill children, so hopefully it will be a happy quilt.
I love these quilts. Somehow I don’t have orphan blocks but I have a ton of scraps. Your quilts inspire me to work with those scraps.
Yikes! No orphan blocks? How can that be? You must be very disciplined in the way you make quilts! Glad I inspire you to use your scraps 😀
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I love your orphan rescue block quilts. My guild is doing a orphan block quilt challenge with quilts to be donated to service. Could I put one of your orphan block quilts on our webpage as eye candy and encouragement?
https://www.valleyquiltersguild.org/challenge
Thank you, Linda
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