Friday, December 14, 2018

What's Black and White and Red All Over?

 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:

TakeMeThereTotes said...

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!

Dorothy said...

Love it !!

Linda said...

Lots of thought gone into this one, Cathy. Great idea to use those text prints.

Janie said...

Fun improvising!
What an adventure. It's got a graphic look to it, nice work.

audrey said...

I never save selvages, but wowsers! You make me wish I was!

gayle said...

Not a selvager myself, but I sure admire those who are! Looks like you had an awful lot of fun sorting through these!

Louise said...

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.

MissPat said...

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

Kaja said...

I love the idea that this quilt has stories woven into it - such a clever way to incorporate your selvages.

Carol- Beads and Birds said...

I'm really in to star quilts right now and this one is great!!
Merry Christmas
xx, Carol

Angie said...

Great way to use up selvedges and perfect quilt name!

O'Quilts said...

very clever

Cathy said...

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.