hmmmm thats a lot of selvedges!!!! 15 years worth to be precise! I think thats how long I have been collecting them, one was dated 2015 and I know I was collecting for a few years before that. So it was long overdure to use them all up, I had looked at many patterns for them and settled on sewing them down onto very lightweight interfacing.
I duly bought said interfacing, cut it up into 8 inch squares and used a Killearn day to start on this journey. I would estimate about 15% of my Selvedges have been donated by chums so they were really pleased to see me using them up!
Above is a progress shot after I had ironed all the selvedges, memo to self, dont crumple them up in future keep them flat, below is action shot of selvedges being ironed!
The blocks came up so quickly loved it
So so many fabric memories in these, it was a real trip down memory lane
So interesting to see it all come together, but I had to stop myself reading all the selvedges!
it got quite intense at times!
I adored this fabric, cant find anything else by this designer but it was lovely to see the selvedge again
Not all selvedges made the cut! and thats fine!
Trimming was time consuming but fine to do
And from here on until finished quilt at the bottom I am just documenting the blocks, a real trip down memory lane!
And here it is!!! the finished product, I do love it rather a lot
No comments:
Post a Comment