Orphan Blocks to Placemats - Day Three

There's nothing like hearing that an orphan has been adopted into a loving home! And for us quilters, we can rejoice when a block, that was left out of a quilt, finally gets to be surrounded by other lovely fabrics.

This is the 3rd orphan paper pieced birdhouse that I was able to feature in the center of the Meals on Wheels placemats. I call it "First Apartment" and I see by my computer files that I first designed it in 2002!

First Apartment: 6" x 12"

I made one and put it with a few others into this VERY old quilt. You can see it at the bottom left. Isn't this so cute the way my senior editor staged it for photography? She found some well loved birdhouses to hang out with!

Birdhouse mini quilt, published in 2000!

I added the simple strips to make it a placemat:

First Apartment placemat: 14" x 18"

I can just imagine the smiles when the recipients get these birdhouse centered placemats, can't you?

You can see all of my Big Birdhouse Bonanza patterns in Etsy. It's a printable, 22 page pdf filled with lots of inspiration!

That's it on the orphan birdhouses, but I made other orphan blocks into placemats and I'll be back with those soon.