• 01Nov
    Categories: brilliant ideas, Everything!, quilting Comments Off on Little Selvage Bag

    I’ve been saving the selvages from my fabrics and I’m getting quite a bin full.

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    A long time ago I made this fun Quilt In A Cup, but I haven’t done anything else–until now!

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    It’s really fun to see my name and Anna Lena’s on the selvages.  I’ve been wanting to do something with them, but it seems like there’s never time for a project that isn’t FOR something–to support a fabric line, for a class, for a book.  So, a few days ago, I decided to heck with everything else, I’m making something with my selvages!  The result is this little bag.

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    It was more of an experiment than a real project, and I’d do some things differently if I did it again. But it’s kind of cute and I did learn a cool thing when quilting the orange polka dot fabric for the bottom.  If you look at the polka dots just right, they make a perfect diagonal line!  So, I sat down at my Elna and just followed every other line of dots to do my grid quilting, and it worked perfectly.

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    I think you can see it better from the back.

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    I’m going to remember that for a future project!

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