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    Modern Selvage Quilting
    Modern Selvage Quilting
    Modern Selvage Quilting
    Ebook205 pages47 minutes

    Modern Selvage Quilting

    By Riel Nason

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    Learn to use every last bit of fabric with three methods for sewing with selvages, plus 17 projects.

    Showcase your selvages the edgy way with 17 projects of all sizes! Like the ticket stubs you keep from a fabulous show, each selvage is a souvenir of a fabric you’ve selected and used. Incorporate these unique scraps with 3 easy-sew methods for narrow- and wide-cut selvages, plus a special trick for half-square triangles. Stretch your growing selvage collection with fabric yardage, and transform specific selvages into awe-inspiring projects from polka-dot pincushions to clever quilts.

    • Three easy methods for sewing with selvages, plus innovative half-square triangle technique

    • Waste not, want not! Use every last bit of fabric from your favorite designers

    • Clever, modern designs use yardage to help stretch even a small selvage collection into something fabulous

    Praise for Modern Selvage Quilting

    “This book has lots of projects to try and has very clear, easy to follow instructions! . . . If you are looking for something fun and a little different, why don't you try quilting with selvages?” —Christine Baker, Fairfield Road Designs
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateMar 21, 2016
    ISBN9781617450846
    Modern Selvage Quilting
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    Riel Nason

    Riel Nason is a writer and textile artist. She is the author of three novels (including one for middle-grade readers), a children’s picture book, and two books on quilting. The Town That Drowned was her debut novel. It won the Commonwealth Book Prize for Canada and Europe and the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award. She lives in Quispamsis, New Brunswick.

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      Modern Selvage Quilting - Riel Nason

      INTRODUCTION

      No fabric was harmed in the making of this book.

      No fabric was stripped of its selvage and left to languish without creative fulfillment in a drawer or (gasp) garbage can. Selvages in these projects were cut and saved from material that already had a starring role elsewhere. Selvages are scraps, after all.

      But they are special scraps. They are removed at the beginning of your project rather than being left over at the end. They are one little strip per length of fabric—printed with information that was important earlier in the fabric’s journey from manufacturer to quilt shop to you. Selvages are like ticket stubs you keep from a fabulous show. Selvage quilts are scrapbooks where you display them.

      So selvage quilts are scrap quilts, and the idea of making scrap quilts has never been forgotten by quilters. Now that there is an ever-increasing awareness of selvages as usable scraps, there is no reason to think that selvage quilts will fade away either. I think it’s too late to suggest that it’s a passing fad. It isn’t something new, weird, or temporary, but rather a creative and useful solution. This isn’t a rock becoming a pet rock. Selvages aren’t being cut off just to make an interesting piece of textile art; they are being cut off anyway (and always have been).

      Nothing is being overthought. This is still a scrap joining together with other scraps to make a beautiful sewn result—just with a modern update.

      The form and basic look of selvages work perfectly with modern designs. If you think about it element by element, it’s almost like selvages were destined all along to be a part of modern quilts. Individual selvages are essentially long, thin lines that can be sewn at any angle. Straight lines lend themselves to both simple geometric shapes and abstract patterns. Selvages sewn in groups can easily be made into squares, rectangles, and triangles. Selvages are a scarce commodity (in that they must be gradually saved rather than bought in quantity), so quilters can stretch their collection by using them in quilts complemented by solid fabric sections. The larger the solid sections, the fewer selvages needed. Areas of intense linear detail are balanced with negative space. Selvages are printed with text, numbers, and dots. Think about how often these elements show up as details in modern fabric.

      It all fits. These factors, combined with a good design, mean that selvages made into quilts can easily be categorized as modern.

      There are so many pretty fabrics out there—why get excited about just the edge?

      But I know that some people don’t get selvage quilts. I’ve heard the argument, There are so many pretty fabrics out there—why get excited about just the edge? Fair enough. I think it’s important not to see selvage quilts as being made instead of other quilts, but as well as other quilts. You still get to use all the pretty fabrics—actually, almost twice. Once for the yardage and once for the selvage. Simply due to how long it takes to accumulate selvages, there will always be some ratio involved. Make five or ten regular quilts and then make one selvage quilt? Selvage quilts are bonus quilts. Or who says it has to be a whole quilt you make with your selvages? Small pieces are nice to sew

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