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lynn_z 08-11-2010 07:41 PM

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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?

sharon b 08-11-2010 07:45 PM

LOL Love you outlook on things :thumbup:

mom-6 08-11-2010 07:47 PM

I never leave enough edge on the selvedges I cut off to make them worth keeping for anything, and besides I only cut off a couple inches at a time, whatever width my strip is.

KatFish 08-11-2010 07:59 PM


Originally Posted by mom-6
I never leave enough edge on the selvedges I cut off to make them worth keeping for anything, and besides I only cut off a couple inches at a time, whatever width my strip is.

I don't have any salvages worth playing with either because I do the same thing. :-(

CarrieAnne 08-11-2010 08:05 PM

Me too. Too thrifty I guess!

lab fairy 08-11-2010 08:09 PM

I agree with Mom-6. I never cut more than a couple inches of salvage at a time.

MomtoBostonTerriers 08-11-2010 08:28 PM

And your point would be . . . ?

mrsjdt 08-11-2010 08:43 PM

I just love your outlook on things....

OneMoreQuilt 08-11-2010 09:03 PM

Thank you. This brought back a fond memory of my father-in-law who used to tell me that I was always (with my quilting, basket weaving and loom weaving) cutting up big things into little pieces then working like crazy to make them into big pieces again!!! This aside, I never remember to trim the selvages off before cutting my quilt pieces.

C.Cal Quilt Girl 08-11-2010 09:19 PM

You may have just done that for many !! :)
Great Work :-D :-D


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