Today, I’m going to show you how to use selvages to make fabric. In my last tutorial, I showed you how I cut and save my selvages from any pieces of new fabric I get. Today, you’ll learn how to make fabric from your selvages, in other words, selvage fabric. Selvage fabric is a great way to use all your fabric…
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How to Use Selvages to Make Selvage Fabric
A New Autumn Quilt {Modern Quilts Block by Block}
Today it’s my turn on the book/blog tour for Emily Dennis’s new book, Modern Quilts Block by Block. Most of the tour you can find on Instagram, but I wanted to show you all what I’m working on. In the book, you’ll find 12 quilt projects featuring one or two repeating block designs. I chose to make (well, start) the “Shine…
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What do you do with Fabric Selvages? Save them!
There are a bunch of ways to use fabric selvages. My favorite way to use selvages is to turn my selvage collection into fabric, selvage fabric that is! In this post, I’m going to show you what I think is the best, and most colorful way, to cut and save your selvages for later use. Remember this quilt? This is…
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Rainbow Quilts in Italy
It is my treat to show you the extraordinary, colorful, Rainbow Quilts of Italy. Rainbow Quilts of Italy is a Facebook Group that came together to challenge themselves to create Rainbow Quilts using Alison Glass’s fabric. Roberta of D + R Patchfun invited me provide a prize, which I happily did! (Wouldn’t you know it, the prize shipment was due…
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Quickly Generate a Fun, New Palette Using Secret Colors
Hi again! Welcome back to the last day of Playful Color Month! This week I’ve been showing you how to get out of “the fabric box” by using paint to explore color. Today’s Goal: Today, I’m showing you a demo of one of the painting exercises from my workshop, Playful Color Theory for Quilters. Secret Colors Exercise – Quickly Generate an…
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