Selvage Potholders

I took the "fabric" that I had made from selvages, and made five 6" potholders. I'm going to give four of these to the gals who dropped their selvages into my bag at SpoolSpinners Bee, if they can recognize any of the selvages!

And here are the backs of those potholders.

Next time, I am going to use only, or mostly, the selvage that has the printing on it, and dispose of the side that has no writing.

Now Charlie and I are going out to Leo's restaurant to celebrate our 41st wedding anniversary. How CAN we have been married for that long?

Sara

Gratitudes:

Still married after all these years

Still laugh together daily

But still both drop things in piles, rather than file

Cutting scraps, cutting scraps

I've CUT scraps off and on for two days. Now I have worked down to the BIG box of scraps. Guess I'll iron for 5 minutes and then cut to see how long it takes to finish cutting the scraps that take 5 minutes of ironing!

I am also working my way through the box of selvages I have collected. Several quilting friends have contributed. A little late I realize that I really only want the selvage side that has the printing on it, and the color dots. So I am sorting through for those. So far I have made a few pieces of "fabric" by sewing some together, and today I made a postcard for a friend who just had her gallbladder out.

Sara

Gratitudes:

Got rid of my gallbladder 10 years ago

Milkshake as part of lunch

Invited out for dinner, hoo-ray!

Selvages

Several months ago I saw an article on the internet about saving selvages from fabric and then making quilt blocks from them---a particular form of String Quilts. http://www.selvagequilts.com/

So have have asked my quilting bee and the sewers at retreats if they would give me their selvages, if they have no use for them. After the additiona at my last two retreats I found I had this whole box of "fluffed up" strips.

At the suggestion of the Heartstrings group I have finally ripped up an old sheet into 7"x14" rectangles for base fabric. Yesterday I had a few minutes for "mindless" sewing and began. At first I sewed a straight stitch quite near the tightly woven selvage edge (after overlapping the previous raw edge about 1/4-1/8th inch). I found that I wasn't keeping the seams straight, no was I sure about catching the invisible edge. So I changed to a zigzag stitch.

I now have two rectangles done and a narrower strip for some leftovers. I'll make some more and then start thinking about how this will be put together.

Sara

Gratitudes:

dinner at Dianne's

Sue's help with driving to and from eosophagus scoping

beautiful sunny day after a lot of clouds