What's black and white and red all over ?
Black and White and Read All Over - the flimsy.
59.5 x 68
Inspired by a free pattern called Star Bright at Swim Bike Quilt. I modified it a bit so I could use selvages. Also note that I think the finished dimensions she mentions for the throw are incorrect.
First I sorted out long selvages with text and used them to make the large center star.
Then I made 9 inch square selvage blocks. I know it's weird but I kind of told a story with the text in each block. Happiness is...
Gardens
Jumpin' Jungle
Then I had a few black, white and red fabrics with text on them so cut those fabrics into 9 inch squares. After I counted those up I filled in with a butterfly and floral print in black,white, red as well as a black and white peace sign print. There's a peace sign selvage in the big star and one of the black/white prints also has peace signs so I thought it appropriate.
More selvage quilts to come...
13 comments:
This is a good one! I like the star and the creative use of selvages and text prints to make meaningful combos. Keep ‘me coming!
Love it !!
Lots of thought gone into this one, Cathy. Great idea to use those text prints.
Fun improvising!
What an adventure. It's got a graphic look to it, nice work.
I never save selvages, but wowsers! You make me wish I was!
Not a selvager myself, but I sure admire those who are! Looks like you had an awful lot of fun sorting through these!
Look great! I love the stories woven through the phrases. Will you machine quilt this one? I'm assuming it's harder to hand quilt through selvages, but I could be wrong about that.
Your imagination runneth over. The Happiness is... section is amazing. I don't save selvages and i rarely see any as creative as the ones you have collected. Another wonderful finish.
Pat
I love the idea that this quilt has stories woven into it - such a clever way to incorporate your selvages.
I'm really in to star quilts right now and this one is great!!
Merry Christmas
xx, Carol
Great way to use up selvedges and perfect quilt name!
very clever
Boy, this is sure a day for us Cathy’s and our selvage quilts! I really love yours - so creative!. The themed selvage blocks are very clever. I’ve got to come up with a selvage idea for 2019. At first I was going to skip selvages for 2019, but my recent flurry of finishes replenished the bins and then some.
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