Edgy Sunday

Inspired by Karen over at the Selvage Blog, I started sewing selvages to a 7 inch by 24 inch foundation, letting only the colour dots or windows show. This width allows for 17 or 18 colour windows in a row and I mixed it up by using ones with less to leave more white space. Here's a close-up.

Here's the whole piece. Originally, I thought I would make a small purse or bag, but now I'm not sure. I'm quite intrigued by the dots and the density of the piece, since I overlapped the selvages so none of the colour print would show, which means it is three layers thick.

I just showed this to the grade 7 math geek in my house and instead of colours and circles, he saw numbers. Interesting.

This was the pile of selvages I started with. I've only been collecting for a few months, but these things multiply when I'm not looking.

I have lots of b/w selvages from collecting b/w fabrics, and mostly in half-metre cuts, so the selvages are more or less the same length. I pieced three white prints and three black prints together without a foundation, cut them into squares, and made a nine-patch.



And since I'd already had the pile of selvages on the table, I just kept going. I made two tea cozies (two sides each) from the red and b/w ones, mixed in with a few novelties. I tried some simple variations, and on these, I have the fabric print showing. Here's the weekend's worth of selvages, not including what's left on the cutting table. I've set aside the bits with words and the shaggy ones (I'm not terribly keen on those, but I have several) for another day.