Blog Readers’ Quilts
Blog Readers’ Quilts: October 26, 2014
Linda Satkowski’s Selvedge Quilt
Linda Satkowski is, also, a fellow Coastal Quilter here in Maine.
Like me, she loves to piece.
When I posted recently about finishing my quilt using selvedge edges, she wrote me that she, too, had a selvedge quilt.
She sent me this picture:
Oh my goodness!! How cool is that!
So, of course I had to go see it (and her)!
Here are the pics I took of this amazing quilt–which is soft as butter, by the way, and has been washed too. Here it is doubled on a couch–so it’s a great lap size.
The blocks look to be about…???…7 inches? Linda used a muslin backing–which has not made the quilt heavy at all. Note that she has used some blank selvedges as well as those with writing or colored dots.
And another:
She used a bright blue for the backing and binding, which works well:
Linda tears about 1/4 inch off the main selvedge. (I’ve been tearing up to two inches in order to have at least 1 1/2-inches of fabric for strips if I don’t use the selvedge.
So, a project like this would really lend itself to Bonnie Hunter’s leader/ender projects–where you add to blocks while sewing on another project so you don’t have to cut thread.
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