Creating beautiful quilted items from fabric selvages is the ultimate recycling project! Here is just one of many sites that provides ideas for using selvages.
My friend Linda was inspired to collect selvages and create a quilt. (I contributed a few selvages!). She started making Half - Half Square Triangle blocks using her selvages. The block looks like this.
The stripes are the fabric selvages pieced together. She used the selvage strips on the diagonal in the larger and smaller triangles.
She had a pattern using this block in a wall hanging but she wanted a bed size quilt.
MyWebQuilter.com comes to the rescue to answer these questions!
By adding a few rows, columns and a small border we came up with a twin size (62 x 80) quilt.
Linda commented.... " For a really scrappy quilt I think its going to turn out awesome..:) I was on your site for a long time....reading your blog and playing with the quilt. Thanks again....you have an awesome website!!!!!"
Linda's selvage pattern is in the Quilt Gallery at MyWebQuilter.com. Check it out for yourself.
Happy Quilting!
My friend Linda was inspired to collect selvages and create a quilt. (I contributed a few selvages!). She started making Half - Half Square Triangle blocks using her selvages. The block looks like this.
The stripes are the fabric selvages pieced together. She used the selvage strips on the diagonal in the larger and smaller triangles.
She had a pattern using this block in a wall hanging but she wanted a bed size quilt.
- How many blocks are needed to make it bed size?
- What would the pattern look like if it was larger?
- Did you need an even number of rows to make it look nice?
- What would an odd number of rows look like?
MyWebQuilter.com comes to the rescue to answer these questions!
By adding a few rows, columns and a small border we came up with a twin size (62 x 80) quilt.
Linda commented.... " For a really scrappy quilt I think its going to turn out awesome..:) I was on your site for a long time....reading your blog and playing with the quilt. Thanks again....you have an awesome website!!!!!"
Linda's selvage pattern is in the Quilt Gallery at MyWebQuilter.com. Check it out for yourself.
Happy Quilting!
I'm really liking what you came up with!
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