Little Penguin Quilts Through the Year

Little Penguin Quilts Through the Year

Thursday, March 30, 2023

ABC Table Scraps projects for March

Finishing up March with my Table Scraps projects - come take a look!

This year, for the 2023 Table Scraps Challenge over at the Joyful Quilter, Joy has included a couple of letters of the alphabet to somehow work into our quilty projects, as well as a color of the month, which coordinates with the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.  For March, the color has been green, and the letters are B and U.

For me this month, B stands for Orphan Blocks!   Way back in 2020, I participated in the Color Challenge, which is sponsored by Jen of Patterns by Jen, and each year there is a theme that each month's block is based on.  2020's theme was Birds (also starts with B!) and enjoying birds as I do, I knew I had to participate!  Here are the twelve blocks I made in 2020.

I enjoyed making each block throughout the year,
but have never made them into a quilt, 
so I decided I would use them for smaller projects this year! 

The most important thing is that there were two green blocks, and since these are 12.5 inch blocks, it only took a few inches of coordinating side borders to make two new 12 x 16 inch placemats!

Bright greens

Olive greens

Back to the ABCs of these table scraps projects - U stands for Underneath!  When you look at the underneath side of these placemats, you will find some fun prints that fit with the colors on the front.


And now we're all ready for dinner with a fresh, Spring table!














21 comments:

TerryKnott.blogspot.com said...

Great purpose for those orphan blocks!

Mari said...

Great use for orphan blocks! They make great placemats.

Jeanna said...

You turned orphan blocks and scraps into some nice projects. The placemats are so pretty and useful.

PaintedThread said...

They look great. I like your use of the letters,too.

Karen - Quilts...etc. said...

good use of the scraps - I do that too or table runners

grammajudyb said...

Using up those blocks and don't they look great with your new green pea napkings! :)

Pat at Bell Creek Quilts said...

fun use of your orphan blocks!

Annie said...

Yay, two blocks out of storage and center stage for dinner! Isn’t it fun how you’ve worked in the alpha letters for the challenge. Your new placemats look great!

Deb A said...

Very pretty!

Nancy @ Grace and Peace Quilting said...

Love the orphan block link!!! And cute underneath!!!

The Joyful Quilter said...

What a great way to meet this month's Challenge, Diann!! Blocks waiting to be turned into something lovely? Check! Coordinating fabrics underneath? Check! With March's ABC (Table) SCRAPS Challenge met, are you ready for April's Y and/or N??? That N has me stumped!

Sara said...

Very cute placemats.

LA Paylor said...

such a fine idea

Gwyned Trefethen said...

Genius, the way you managed to combine multiple challenges and upcycle some orphaned blocks. They make a lovely place setting.

Ivani said...

Great placemats, Diann! Glad you give life to those pretty orphan blocks.

Preeti said...

That table is very warm and inviting. I'd happily join you :-) Happy Spring to you!

Linda said...

Mike must really enjoy your table scraps projects! These are just as cute as can be Diann - I have GOT to make some place mats.

Jenny said...

Two nice new green placemats, and you have all those other colourful blocks to utilise as well, as the months progress.

Alycia~Quiltygirl said...

Love it!! those blocks are really cool , love how you put them into placemats!! so cool!

Jeanne said...

Fun idea to use the orphan blocks for placemats!

Andree G. Faubert said...

That's a great use of those orphan blocks. Congrats!