Material Selvedges
07-21-2010, 07:15 AM
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When I first started collecting the selvedges I would cut them very close to the white. but found that by the time I sew a 1/4 seam allance they almost dissapear. I now cut them about 3/4 to inch above the white. It works much better.
07-21-2010, 07:20 AM
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Originally Posted by sarahbelle
http://creativedabbling.blogspot.com...-for-sale.html
selvedge pincushions.... this is what I am saving mine for (I figure i could manage a small project like this)
selvedge pincushions.... this is what I am saving mine for (I figure i could manage a small project like this)
Great idea.
07-21-2010, 07:31 PM
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Someone mentioned the house-shaped selvedge blocks shown on the Empire Quilt Guild website, May's BOM. I won them. You can see how they're put together at www.empirequilters.net
On the same website in Show & Tell for May there's a picture of me (Verna Fitzgerald) holding the small wall hanging I made using selvedges. I've been saving them for about a year, since I saw a selvedge quilt at the Empire show in May 2009, and this was my first attempt to make something. Karen Griska, the woman behind www.selvageblog.blogspot.com, is a member of Empire and I've become one of her "groupies".
On the same website in Show & Tell for May there's a picture of me (Verna Fitzgerald) holding the small wall hanging I made using selvedges. I've been saving them for about a year, since I saw a selvedge quilt at the Empire show in May 2009, and this was my first attempt to make something. Karen Griska, the woman behind www.selvageblog.blogspot.com, is a member of Empire and I've become one of her "groupies".
07-22-2010, 07:22 AM
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Originally Posted by mrs. fitz
Someone mentioned the house-shaped selvedge blocks shown on the Empire Quilt Guild website, May's BOM. I won them. You can see how they're put together at www.empirequilters.net
On the same website in Show & Tell for May there's a picture of me (Verna Fitzgerald) holding the small wall hanging I made using selvedges. I've been saving them for about a year, since I saw a selvedge quilt at the Empire show in May 2009, and this was my first attempt to make something. Karen Griska, the woman behind www.selvageblog.blogspot.com, is a member of Empire and I've become one of her "groupies".
On the same website in Show & Tell for May there's a picture of me (Verna Fitzgerald) holding the small wall hanging I made using selvedges. I've been saving them for about a year, since I saw a selvedge quilt at the Empire show in May 2009, and this was my first attempt to make something. Karen Griska, the woman behind www.selvageblog.blogspot.com, is a member of Empire and I've become one of her "groupies".
Thanks for sharing.
06-28-2011, 07:06 PM
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I cut them 1" wide. I just posted a picture of my "bag of many colors" made with them. My suggestion is to sew them onto a backing and then cut them out into the dimension you want.
here is my bag..quilted as I went, onto the backing I fused my batting to.
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