Salvage quilts

I’d like to share my upcoming pattern, the Bibliography Quilt. It showcases wide selvages that have been popular in recent years. Selvages serve as a kind of bibliography of your past quilts,…

In September I shared this quilt finish. For want of a name, it's my "Selvedges Quilt" that finished at 59" X 72". I designed the block. Sev...

There are lots of ideas out there for selvage quilts but I particularly like this one that Gail made and asked me to quilt for her. The grey and white frames give the illusion of spools and make the quilt three dimensional. I just can't stop looking at it, if I ever decide to make

Tina Craig of Seaside Stitches in Rhode Island just finished her second selvage quilt, and it's a real beauty! It was inspired by my pattern Button Box, but she gave it a new twist with the on-point layout. The Squares are Kona Tomato. Nice work! *** Tina has noticed that making a selvage quilt somehow doesn't deplete your supply of selvages! I've made a bunch (19?) of selvage quilts and I now have more selvages than ever. How can that be?

MODERN GRAY is a new, fun interpretation of the ancient Greek Key design. Turning selvages into works of art has never been more fun! In this pattern, MODERN GRAY, you will find clear instructions for making this gorgeous quilt that measures 26" x 28". Full size templates are included as well as my tricks for working with selvages AND color photos. This is the PDF version of the MODERN GRAY pattern. Quilts by Elena has been writing and selling patterns in quilt shops across the US and online…

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2011 Fiber Arts Fiesta, Albuquerque, New Mexico

These delightful and adventurous quilters made a silk cigar style selvage quilt on Saturday in Harwinton, CT. We took this photo before the end of the day, but you can see that there was a lot of progress being made! This was their first selvage project, and it's the most challenging quilt in the book: Quilts from the Selvage Edge. Lots of laughs, we had the best time, as quilters are known to do. :) This is a non-selvage, raw-edge version by Judi. Well, there is one selvage, and she asked…

Today quilter Pat Sloan showed my Red Zinger quilt pattern on her You Tube program! She's been saving selvages that quilters mail to her and she'll use them this year to make a Red Zinger. Pat Sloan is a quilt designer, author, teacher, radio/podcast/YouTuber show producer and host, and fabric designer who lives in Virginia. You already knew that, right? See the Red Zinger quilt pattern here. It's surprisingly EASY! Here's are links to Pat's blog, her You Tube channel, and her facebook page…

What a fun class we had on Wednesday in Ferndale, WA. It was called String Quilts Your Way I give them the basic techniques (there are more than one, like most of quilting) and they make a string quilt they'd like. I give them plenty of examples ahead of class. Busy quilters! So many fun varieties! Traditional with reproductions. Plaids and dots. What a fun variety of greens. Anything goes! It will be great! A quadrant of this block was already completed and she was doing a great job with…