What to do with a long fat quarter!!!

I bet you are now wondering what the hell I am going on about!!!, well if if you are a crafty person and have ever bought fabrics from a patchwork/fabric shop you quite often buy them in fat quarters. This is basically a metre length of fabric folded over and cut to make 4 equal squares of fabric approx 50cm x 60 cm depending on the width of the fabric. Now a long fab quarter is just 25cm x the full width of the fabric. (hopefully that makes sense).

Most of my patchworks use fat quarters to allow for the square or pattern size but on the odd occasion I seem to acquire a long fat quarter which is great for small projects in this case I decided to find an alternative use and made up a couple of holders for plastic carrier bags (which seem to multiply in this household).

The fabric was from the Amy Butler collection http://www.amybutlerdesign.com/products/ which can be bought from many fabric stores and in my case from john lewis.

Anyway I got 2 of the holders from each fat quarter with the aid of a metre of elastic and it took me 15 minutes to make each pair.

I will start putting together some "how to guide's " up if anyone wants one.

So an easy one to do if you fancy using up a bit of fabric !

And for my next trick embroidery:-)))