selvages

36 Patch Quilt Done! from The Cozy Quilter

Over the past 10 months, I have been making 36 patch blocks in the colour of the month for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. This past week, I quilted, bound and labelled my quilt--that's two quilts finished in two weeks! I'm on a roll! I used my walking foot to sew straight lines diagonally through all of the white squares with 28wt thread. The backing is a wide back called Sea Glass. It has lots of colours in it to match all of the squares on the front. There are no repeats of any of the coloured squares on ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 6 months ago. under binding , drunkard's path , finn , hand sewing , knitting , puzzles , rainbow scrap challenge , scraps , selvages , slow sunday stitching

Orange and Light Blue, Hooking and Cutting from The Cozy Quilter

I changed the calendar to September today...I know...I was a day late but we were out all day yesterday and too tired when we got home to think about it. I finished off my orange drunkard's path blocks for the August Rainbow Scrap Challenge and got busy gathering some light blue selvages for September's selvage HST's.

HST's made! These are top stitched along the selvage edge onto a lightweight non-woven interfacing square, 9.5" by 9.5". Then, I cut them in half!

I harvested lots of grape tomatoes today after supper. This should ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 7 months ago. under drunkard's path , finn , gardens , rainbow scrap challenge , rug hooking , selvages , slow sunday stitching , tesselate quilts

Starting a New Quilt (or two!) from The Cozy Quilter

The rainbow scrap challenge colour for August is orange so I pulled out my bin of orange selvages this week and made my selvage blocks. Each selvage strip is top stitched very close to the edge and the are foundation pieced to a square of very light weight non woven interfacing. Orange is one of my favourite colours.

I will get my orange scrap bin out soon to work on my drunkard's path blocks.

In the meantime, I have started a new quilt--this one is a wedding gift. The wedding was in June, after a two year delay due ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 8 months ago. under finn , gardens , rainbow scrap challenge , rug hooking , selvages , slow sunday stitching , tesselate quilts

Wedding Shower Gift and RSC purple Drunkard's path blocks from The Cozy Quilter

We were away visiting our daughter last weekend and did not get home until Wednesday night which meant that there was not a lot of sewing time this week. Since the end of July is quickly approaching, I needed to get my purple Rainbow Scrap Challenge blocks finished up. The colour for August is orange so I will dig out my orange scrap bin and my orange selvages this coming week.

Our daughter is in her friend's wedding party this fall. I decided to make the bride some hot pads as a wedding shower gift. These are the colours ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 9 months ago. under binding , finn , hot pad , hst's , rainbow scrap challenge , selvages , slow sunday stitching

I Need to Do Some Quilting... from The Cozy Quilter

Back in February, I took a Zoom class with Cheryl Arkison called Traditional Variations. The idea was to take a traditional block and change it up in some way. I made blocks based on four traditional blocks: churn dash, pinwheel, log cabin and sawtooth star. This week, I finished my last three blocks and put the top together, except for the final border which is cut but not sewn on yet. This quilt will be donated to the Toronto Modern Quilt Guild outreach project--Quilts for Survivors of Residential Schools. My husband and I participated in a Healing Walk this morning ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 9 months ago. under cheryl arkison , comfort quilts , finn , flowers , lupins , quilts for survivors , rainbow scrap challenge , rug hooking , selvages , slow sunday stitching

Blue Scraps, a Baby Quilt and Rughooking from The Cozy Quilter

This past week flew by but I did manage to find a bit of time to spend in my sewing room. I made two sets of selvage blocks for the rainbow scrap challenge this month --navy and bright blue. It's so much easier to make these blocks now that my selvages are all sorted by colour.

I quilted this baby quilt for our church Christmas bazaar--the fabrics were all donated to the sewing group--I added the blue fabric squares from my stash as well as the light blue and white striped binding. The sailor fabric has a piece of ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 10 months ago. under baby quilts , finn , rainbow scrap challenge , rug hooking , selvages , slow sunday stitching

Cheerful checkerboard from The Academic Quilter

Hi everyone, and a happy Friday to you. It is currently raining here, but that's a good thing, because it's bringing in cooler temperatures. Plus it's good for all the flowers I planted this week, so. . .hurray for the rain? After all the wet we've had so far this year, it feels weird to say that!

I'm finishing up a paper and getting ready for a conference, plus my niece is coming to visit this weekend, so I haven't done a lot of sewing. A little bit of this, a little bit of that ...

added by Mari 1 year, 10 months ago. under donation quilt , green , selvages

Baby Quilt Done and Dark Green Scraps from The Cozy Quilter

I had a busy week in the sewing department this week. I quilted and bound this flannel baby quilt for our church Christmas Bazaar. The flannel wedges were cut from donated material and the back is a light blue minke, making this quilt very soft and cuddly. I quilted it with straight lines using my walking foot. I was worried that the minke might stretch and pucker a bit but it looks great--no puckers and nice and flat. I hand stitched the binding this week in the gazebo--my favourite place for hand stitching!

I played with my dark green scraps ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 11 months ago. under baby quilts , binding , finn , gardens , hand sewing , knitting , rainbow scrap challenge , selvages , slow sunday stitching

Checkerboard Quilt Done! from The Cozy Quilter

I finished hand stitching the binding on my checkerboard quilt earlier in the week and then today, my quilt holder did his part for the photoshoot. It was windy outside today, so we picked a sheltered spot on the back patio. Finn watched from the back door--he really wanted to come out to participate in the photo shoot! This quilt was started last year as part of Debbie Brown's Colour Block Challenge on Facebook--I had a lot of black and white scraps to use up and made 25 sixteen patches for this quilt. Yes--I still have more black and ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 years ago. under colour blocks , finn , hand sewing , rainbow scrap challenge , selvages , slow sunday stitching

Yellow RSC Blocks and Knitting a Hat for Me! from The Cozy Quilter

The start of a new month means that there is a new colour for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge...For March, I am using my yellow/gold scraps to create blocks for my three projects. I had to go digging for some extra yellow selvages but found enough to create two foundation pieced squares which I cut in half to create 4 triangles. There are not enough gold coloured selvages in my extensive collection to create gold selvage blocks.

I did, however, have enough gold and yellow squares to create two 36 patch blocks.

Last, but not least, I made my ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 years, 1 month ago. under drunkard's path , finn , knitting , quilt show , rainbow scrap challenge , selvages , slow sunday stitching

Red Scraps and a Gift from The Cozy Quilter

The red scraps were flying in my sewing room this week. I have decided to do three rainbow scrap challenge quilts this year. When I made the selvage hot pads as Christmas gifts, it quickly became apparent that my selvage collection is out of control! I had sorted some of my selvages into bags by colour so I grabbed the red bag and some light-weight non-fusible interfacing and made two squares.

I also pieced some smaller red scraps together and used my drunkard's path rulers to make 4 quarter circle blocks. They are not sewn together yet as I ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 years, 3 months ago. under bonus hst's , comfort quilts , drunkard's path , finn , rainbow scrap challenge , scraps , selvages , zippered pouch

Some Gifts Revealed! from The Cozy Quilter

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate! Happy Holidays! I am taking a few moments away from working on a new puzzle with my husband and our daughter to write my weekly blogpost. Finn is curled up on the floor in front of me. It is so nice to have them home. (our daughter tested negative for COVID before coming to visit) We have had a quiet day at home...it rained in the morning and we took Finn for a walk after it stopped.

I wanted to share some Christmas gifts that I made for some friends. I dug into ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 years, 4 months ago. under books , christmas gifts , finn , knitting , selvages , snowflake quilt

The Broken Wrist Quilt from Quilting Studio Adventures

Does this quilt do anything for you? I love it for several reasons. It was one of the first things I worked on with my broken wrist. I had just had the pins removed (without anesthesia, just a local - stupid Covid - don't ask) and was doing rehab. And I'm sure this project helped the rehab along. I've always admired quilts using the selvage edges of fabric. So I went through my stash and cut off the selvage edges, about a 2" strip. I also set out scrap strips. There are no seams on these blocks, just fabrics ...

added by Donna 2 years, 4 months ago. under reversible , selvages

No Trick or Treat Candy! from Quilting Studio Adventures

I like my new home. It's a condo of people pretty much my age and no children, not that there's anything wrong with them! We're not in a neighborhood - we're in nature. And it's lovely. There are walking paths, and our across-the-street neighbor is the Hilton Oak Brook Hills Resort. Instead of agonizing over what kind of Halloween candy to buy and whether we have enough, this holiday is a candy-free zone. A nice change of pace. One negative: one more leaves fall I we will be able to see an over-the-top magamansion. I'll ...

added by Donna 2 years, 5 months ago. under bowl cozy , selvages , yoshiko jinzenji

Falling In and Out and In Love again with Projects from Quilting Studio Adventures

Last spring, when I was recovering from my shattered wrist and accompanying surgeries, I started a simple project using foundation piecing and selvages. I couldn't be very precise because of limited ability, but I was very happy doing these. And then I put these 30 blocks away. I unearthed them and have been deciding what to do with them. Because they are already Foundation pieced, I wondered if I could just add a backing and not do batting. And while that's possible, it just doesn't feel right.

I've been doing a lot of quilting lately and ...

added by Donna 3 years, 2 months ago. under selvages

Help Me Let Them Go from Quilting Is More Fun Than Housework

I have been saving selvages for quite a while.

I recently got them out and made this quilt using them. Upon finishing it, I decided making things with selvages really isn't for me. But do you think I can dump all the ones I have saved to date away?

I still have a fairly large stash of them that I just can't seem to toss in the trash. So I am hoping someone can use them and save me from myself :)

Some of them are long and some have been trimmed down to about 5-6" long.

These are ...

added by Cynthia Brunz Designs 3 years, 7 months ago. under orphan adoption event , quilty orphan adoption , selvages

A Once is Enough Finish from Quilting Is More Fun Than Housework

For years, I have been tucking away in a bag any pieces of fabric selvages I came across. Most of them have been cut off backing pieces. I am not sure why I started saving them - I guess they were just a "scrap" that I thought I could use one day.

Recently, I finally decided to do something with them. I sorted them by color and made two 18" strips of each color. I think I cut the selvages to a width of 5.5".

I finally finished the last two purple strips and finished up the quilt this week ...

added by Cynthia Brunz Designs 3 years, 8 months ago. under finished quilt , rainbow quilt , scrap quilts , selvages

Purple Selvedges from Romany Quilting

The Rainbow Scrap Challenge colour for August has just been announced as purple. Luckily I had rummaged through my bag of selvedge strips and gathered up any purple ones I could find, so I was ready to quickly make this block, in time for this week’s linky party. Just a few purple strips, but enough to stitch up a purple selvedge block.

Purple selvedge block

And here is my collection of selvedge blocks I’ve stitched so far. Don’t they look nice all together. I’m aiming to make them into a tote bag when I get all ...

added by Jenny 3 years, 8 months ago. under rainbow scrap challenge , selvages

Oh Scrap! : Selvage Progess from Quilting Is More Fun Than Housework

I found another scrappy project that needed some blue blocks made July.

I am still working on sewing up all of my saved selvages. This last week, I worked on completing the teal/turquoise and blue strips.

I decided to put them all up on the wall. I still have to trim them to length, finish the two purple strips and then add the background fabric. I am so close to a finish on this one.

...and done with saving selvages in the future!

What scrappy goodness have you been working on!

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added by Cynthia Brunz Designs 3 years, 9 months ago. under colorwash quilt , gradation quilts , oh scrap! , quilting blog , rainbow quilt , rainbow scrap challenge , scrap quilting , scrap quilts , selvages , string quilt

Happy and Cheery! from Quilting Studio Adventures

I know I'm getting better. I am in love with my current project. Since it requires minimal cutting and simple sewing, I can do it. Throughout the years I've seen various posts/projects using the selvages of fabrics. They are interesting, tightly bound, and provide info for reordering. One of my Sew Powerful buddies, Shirley Utz, posted a picture of making fabric from selvages just I was cutting selvages to make a quilt backing. So I've been going through my stash - under the guise of reorganizagting - and cutting off the selvages. This picture shows the 12" blocks ...

added by Donna 3 years, 11 months ago. under selvages

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