"But what can you DO with these Little Gems?"

What to DO with Little Gems - this is the burning question in the minds of everyone who's hoping to get lucky and win a Little Gem at the tombola at the Festival of Quilts.

The LG team has been thinking about this, and the results of their cogitations will be shown at FOQ and will be put on the LG website. So, be patient.... (or if you have an idea, send it along to me!)

Of course you might want to display your LG in a frame, or by hanging it up on a rod (or even just pinning it on to the wall) - or use it as a table mat - or as a pocket on a shopping bag.

Or you could easily make it into a useful container, like I did with this rather nondescript one made especially for this demonstration.I folded the long sides in half and, from the inside, whipped them together. (At this stage you can add a loop and button, and you have a nice pouch bag -- but we're going a stage further here.)

To make this pouch into a cube, I folded the sides in so that the seams lay over each other, then used the bound edges as a guide for sewing across the seams, forming triangles. (You can make smaller triangles to get a more rectangular shape, but do make both the same size!)
Turn it inside out, lift up the triangles so you can see the bottom, catch the points of the triangles onto the seam, and take a few stitches at each corner to keep the top edge nice and square.
This will be useful beside the sewing machine or on a desktop.