Happy Earth Day: Recycled Selvage Quilt

 Happy Earth Day!  My Recycled Selvage Quilt is all done.  I am very happy with it.  As I mentioned in my previous post about this quilt, it is an idea I've had forever and I'm so glad it's finally done!  It only seemed right to make a recycle symbol out of the ultimate recycled quilting scraps -- selvages!

 It is 36 inches square.  I actually have it hanging up in the house.  I am not much of a quilts-on-walls person at all, but I guess this is the exception. 

 I quilted it with a pointy angled stipple type design.  I think my quilting is improving a little, although I still have a long way to go.  I still just use the regular presser foot on my machine while quilting.  I don't have a walking foot.  I do the design freestyle; I don't draw it out.  It is actually easy to do.  It just takes a lot of moving the quilt around.   It is basically stitch, stop, swivel, stitch, stop, swivel, times about a thousand.

 It has a scrappy binding made with green fabric leftovers.

And a word about my selvage supply, since I get asked every time I post a selvage quilt.  They are not all selvages from my own fabrics.  I certainly save all my own selvages, but lots of other people give me selvages too.  I  would never ever have enough to do all the projects I do if I had to rely only on my own selvages.  I also never buy a fabric just for the selvage -- I really feel that would be going against the whole idea of using scraps/recycling.

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Thanks for stopping by!  Happy Earth Day on Sunday and Happy Quilting! 

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Posted by Riel Nason on The Q and the U