Patchouli Moon Studio: Retro Flash quilt blocks

Wednesday, July 27, 2022

2 UFO Quilt Blocks Become One New Project

Hello friendly aliens near & far, welcome to my day on the UFO Blog Hop. Thanks Joan (of Moosestash Quilting) for hosting this Far Out blog hop.

I knew I had a lot of UFO's (the unfinished objects kind) that needed to get finished and a blog hop is a great nudge to get er done. So I grabbed the UFO that didn't need too much finishing to add and I finished it.

I made 6 of the 9 Retro Flash Blocks when they first came out on Suzy's Artsy-Craftsy Sitcom. (I still haven't made the BBQ guy and the Poodle Skirt and the Gasoline ones). I loved making these blocks, but wall space is very limited in my house to hang up quilts, so I thought about what I could do with some of the blocks I had already made and I decided to make a desktop computer screen dust cover. I knew I needed a cover as my screen gets very dusty! So the only blocks that would work were the ones that were set horizontally, as the vertical ones would be too tall.

I made this computer screen dust cover 2-sided and added a handle in the center to grab onto it easily. It could also work to make a sewing machine cover like this as well, but I already have plenty of sewing machine covers that I have made over the years.

Here is my computer screen dust cover:

These are two blocks joined together with sashing in between the blocks and borders and I added a handle for easy grabbing.

The Bowling block.

The Drive In Movie Block. (Oh drive in movies were so fun in the summer evenings in California)!

I placed this on the back of an outdoor chair so you can get the idea how it works on my computer screen. The chair back is slightly curved though.

And the other side over the chair.

Lighting isn't as good inside, but here it is over my computer screen.

And the other side over the computer screen. Don't you love my purple keyboard and mouse? When I saw they made these some in colors and with white keys, I had to get it because my all black keyboard had lots of the letters worn off from so much typing, lol! Plus black with gold letters on black keys was hard to see (and boring too). I love how easy this keyboard is to see all the letters, numbers and symbols and the keys to type on are quiet as well as easier to type. So a win-win-win! Amazon sells them (not an affiliate) if you are interested. I also like the shorter keyboard (doesn't have the separate number on the right side), so it is more compact and fits better on my table.

Now please go visit the other bloggers to see what UFO projects they all came up with.

Here is the complete blog hop list:

Monday July 25:

Tuesday July 26:

Creatin' in the Sticks

Quilted Delights