Orphan Block - #28 August

The activity for the September meeting of the Quilt By Association guild was an orphan block exchange.  We exchanged orphan blocks in August.  By the September meeting, we were to have completed something using the orphan block we received.  Then we were entered into a drawing to win one of two $25 gift certificates to the quilt shop of our choice.

I provided the following blocks to the exchange:

The bee was one of the leftover bees from the round robin exchange I turned in last month.

The black, white, and pink block is a block I created in a piping class at Big Sky Quilt Retreat in 2013.  It was the Piping Hot Curves - Macaroni by Susan K. Cleveland.  The class was awesome but I decided that I was not going to pursue piping at this time.

 I received a Christmas block that ended up in the center of a wall hanging I created.

As I was considering what to do with the orphan block I received, I was also working on a community quilts project.  I went through the fabric I had received from Iretta Hanson.  She happened to have the same Christmas plaid that was in my received orphan block.  I laughed and then used the fabric right up!