Thread: Let me see...do I have this right?

Love your quilt! AND your outlook too :D:D:D

Thanks. I'm just going to make it huge for a bedspread and not weight it down much. They just come up w/too many ideas!

Hilarious post!! Thanks for my smile and laugh for the day!!! HUGS, Sue :D

As to who gets to decide these, things, the answer is US! Us and our dollars!

The "market" depends on what we buy (or don't buy) and that is how the "trends" emerge.

I think we are seeing a lot more thriftiness (is that a word, lol) because of the economy. A lot of reusing whatever we can.

So....in other words, BLAME THE GOVERMENT! LOL!

I was laughing out load beacuse my HD asked me the same thing why do you cut it up and sew it back together. What was so funny is the dum look he had on his face. :lol:

I only cut the least ampunt I have to from the salvage edges. that makes my main piece bigger. and I may have a larger piece left over for "scrap bag". Then I throw the salavages away. I have plenty of left scraps for another day! or you can give them away or trade them with friends. My favorate quilt shop has a scrap bin. Have fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by lynn_z

You go to the fabric store, find fabric that is just gorgeous. You buy it, cut it up in little pieces and mix it up with other little pieces and put them all back together to make a gorgeous quilt. Now you're telling me that you need to take the selvage remnants, which are not gorgeous, mix them up and put them all together? Are you kidding me? I have a roomful full of fabric and now I have to go back and salvage those strips? A lot of them don't have proper seam allowance...what do you do with those? Fortunately, I have already saved some. More importantly, in my opinion, I have kept the diagrams Daisy Kingdom, etc always used on their cutouts, plus bits and pieces even tho I have never made a scrap quilt and never intended to. Now I find my self obsessing about scraps! What about excess wording from feed sacks...what's next? Who makes up this stuff?

Cool! That's Great! Love your quilt! :mrgreen: :thumbup: :XD: :lol:

I "collect" selvages too and also my quilting friend saves her for me. I cut the selvage off before I cut into the fabric. These are my first "selvage projects"

Originally Posted by Sew 'N Sew

I "collect" selvages too and also my quilting friend saves her for me. I cut the selvage off before I cut into the fabric. These are my first "selvage projects"

Oh, I love em! :thumbup:

in case u guys missed it here is a link for garbage can fabric i love it it turns out beautiful click the download and she walks u step by step thru the process
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-58917-1.htm#1432127