Originally Posted by Prism99
Come to think of it, I think I've seen blue jeans quilts where the pieces were serged wrong sides together with decorative red thread. The red seams were pretty. The quilt didn't need a backing fabric, so it was lighter than most blue jeans quilts, and of course less work to make because no quilting.
I will have to see if I can find a picture online.
Many, many years ago Kaye Wood did several TV shows using the serger. She would do patchwork with the seams on the outside, serged with decorative thread. If the seams are wide you can treat them like tucks and stitch them down in alternating directions and so on. It is a great way to add some additional color or bling (by using metallic or lame type threads in your loopers) to a project.
A lot of those early projects were used as parts of clothing, but they would also be great as accents or textured pieces in quilts and bags.
Pati, in Phx