Gift Sewing

Not a lot going on here. Donovan is visiting for a week while mom and dad go house hunting in S. Carolina (wahhhhhhh 😭), plus my current project is a gift so no pics yet… which all adds up to a big lack of blogging material. 

I’ve been working on organizing my Big Bin of Selvages. I’d asked a few friends to save selvage strips from their quilts for me, planning to cut and sew them into words for… quilt labels? captions on blocks? just for fun? They came through in a big way so I’m sorting and ironing and planning.

The original idea came from posts on Instagram and, like a lot of social media stuff, it looked easier than it is. Things to remember - bigger letters are definitely better. Words with extra space between letters (kerning?) are great. Strips with less than a generous 1/4” of fabric above and below the letters are mostly unusable. Black letters are too common (it’s slowly changing but most selvages have black ink on white fabric) - hoard those colorful letters! Use a glue pen to hold letters in place for sewing. 

A friend said the end product looks like a ransom note. 😂 She’s not wrong!