Around this same time I purchased a book by Susan Cleveland called Piping Hot Curves. I thought my two curved pieces would work perfectly for this next step in my learning new skills. I cut circles from one fabric and pieced them into the other adding piping around the edge of each circle.
A group online decided to have a round robin. For this challenge we sent a center block and the next people added borders. Some very talented people added to mine. Michelle Craig, Reneta Datzova and Julie Broderson, all from Learning Fiber Arts (a yahoo group), added borders to my block.
I'm glad I waited until now to try to quilt this piece because I knew less about quilting at that time than I did about curves and piping. I really like the finished wall hanging. Very cheerful. Thank you Julie, Michelle and Reneta.
Now on to the "old is new". I noticed my selvage basket was overflowing.
I have been saving selvedges ever since I discovered Selvage Blog. I love the idea of taking something I would have thrown away and making something fun, functional and beautiful from it.
In the same online group(Learning Fiber Arts), Miriam had shown us how to make a bag using selvage fabric. I took her techniques and used them with a pattern from Craftsy called Phoebe bag by Beki Lambert.
I have been saving selvedges ever since I discovered Selvage Blog. I love the idea of taking something I would have thrown away and making something fun, functional and beautiful from it.
In the same online group(Learning Fiber Arts), Miriam had shown us how to make a bag using selvage fabric. I took her techniques and used them with a pattern from Craftsy called Phoebe bag by Beki Lambert.
I had fun making this partly because I have been working on restoring my mom's old sewing machine. I managed to sew part of my bag on this machine. The Singer still needs more work. She started complaining part way through making the bag so I switched to my newer machine. It was a blast from the past as this is the machine I used when first learning how to sew.
I like this bag. It has an inside pocket and a magnetic snap closure! Ooh, and the pattern is free! Thank you Beki Lambert for wonderful instructions! And thank you Miriam for teaching me how to use my selvage edges. Lot's of fun.
On a side note. I had always thought it was spelled selvedge, not selvage. For consistency in this post I spelled it selvage, but it really can be either way. Fun fact.
Have a Creative Day!
Janet
ated in a Round Robin before this year. If you don't know in a round robin each participant makes a beginning block. Each group probably has it's own rules for the size of the block etc. There are a set number of people in your group. We started with five but due to health issues of one participant ended up with four. You mail your finished block to one person on the list and they add a border to the block. They mail your block to the next person on the list and so on until it gets back to you again. Since there were four of us, I worked on the blocks of three other people. Here is the block I used for my starting point. I made this to try Susan Cleveland's Piping Hot Curves technique. I am so happy with the quilt that came back to me. I would never have come up with this on my own. These woman are so talented I am in awe of the work they have done. This group was through Shirley Patterson's learningfa yahoo group. It was a little frightening for me to add to someone else's quilt but I am so glad I allowed myself this opportunity to grow.
