BellaBoo

If you aren't going to make a scrappy quilt then there is no reason to keep all the scraps. I save salvage strips to use as ties for fat quarter bundles I put together for guild gifts.

belmer

It's because of those... "too many ideas".... that we can't get off this board and get some sewing done. I am always looking here for new ideas or easier ways to do something.
Love those scrap quilts and bags.

littlehud

My salvages are useless. Not enough there to use.

Jeannette in NJ

I also enjoyed your post. As far as the wording portion from feed sacks, my mom said they were used by a woman for womanly needs. Need I say more?

Favorite Fabrics

I use the selvedges to tie up my tomato plants. Guess you could call it a calico garden.

JudyM

If you have a garden, the selvage pieces work great to tie
up tomatoes, peas or any other climbing vegetable or flower.

Sewze

[quote=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"[/quote

Love these projects. I use to leave the selvages on or cut them the width if they were white and then I would use the white width cut offs as leaders and enders. I have started cutting all my selvages off, to make selvage projects, since I saw a thread 2-3 months ago. Now, I have scraps of my scraps. It just goes with what my family has said about me for years: I never throw anything away!!! :thumbup:

nannya54

I didn't know that they were suppose to be a certain width so just started cutting them off leaving a bit of the fabric. I ended up sending to a quilter who wanted them down in Florida. Yesterday in the mail I got the neatest floppy book mark made from my selvages and from my latest quilt to boot. How fun was that! It is so cute! Thanks Chele.

brenda21

I never cared about scraps either until reading some threads on here and never had any intention of making a scrap quilt or a crumb or string or anything like that...since reading these posts, I too have become obsessed with my scraps of various sizes and for various projects :)

angelarose

Your post was so funny! We're all nuts, aren't we? I wish I can get off this laptop and go finish that Minkie project I'm wrestling with!