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Read any good quilts lately? The ultimate scrap quilt can be yours simply by digging into your stash and cutting off the selvages ... then using them! Sew these orphans of the quilting room floor into fun and fabulous quilts with Quilts from the Selvage Edge by Karen Griska

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Quilts from the Selvage Edge

Author: Karen Griska
Pages: 55
Page size: 8 1/2" x 11"
Publisher: American Quilter's Society
Cover: Soft
Item Code: 4E30770
Weight: 0.75 lb.

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Introduction

Anyone who has been a quilter longer than a week probably has a fabric stash. You may not have thought about this, but you have a wealth of selvages!

Why would anyone want to make a selvage quilt .........because it's fun and you can enjoy your whole stash and not use any of it up! If you don't like your creation, who cares? You were just going to throw the selvages away, anyway.

Reasons for trying selvage quilts

  • They are creative - one-of-a-kind
  • They are beautiful, have a busy appearance & make dazzling throws
  • They are fun to read
  • They are sturdy making great utility quilts

Author Karen Griska About the Author

Karen Griska is a passionate and prolific quilt artist who made her first quilt at age 13, a charming one-patch. A self-taught quilter, she has now made over 200 quilts, all original designs. Karen is inspired by antique quilts, particularly those pictured in the state quilt survey books, which she studies avidly. Her favorites are dynamic interpretations of traditional quilts. She loves quilts with quirky, improvisational elements of surprise in their design.

Her favorite part of the quiltmaking process is creating the design. Karen does not usually sketch a plan in advance, but prefers to develop the design as she works. The thrill of discovery fuels her passion for quilting. She would rather quilt than eat!

Karen enjoys encouraging other quilters to have more fun with their quilting. She challenges them to ignore precision in piecing and coordinating fabrics in favor of working in a more carefree style. She created the Oregon Trail Quilt Challenge, in which quilters make a small quilt using only a given bundle of fabrics and no pattern. They could use only the materials you had on hand and the ideas in your head.

Karen and her husband currently reside in White Plains, New York.

Table of Contents

 
Foreword by Mark Lipinski6
Introduction 9
Getting Started: Choosing and Cutting Selvages11
The Basics: How to Make Selvage Blocks16
Hitting the Road: Fast and Easy Quilts 26
Surprise 26
Old Maid's Puzzle, Solved28
Cow Barns, Night Skies30
Picking Up Speed But Still Taking It Easy32
Gems on Point32
Tree of Live34
Zipping along in the Fast Lane - Using Long Blocks36
Amish at Heart36
Basket Weave38
Hospitality 40
Cruising Along, Marveling at the Scenery - Equilateral Triangles42
Twilight Star42
Glass Tumbling Blocks44
We're Not in Kansas Anymore!46
Acres of Afternoon46
Log Cabin, Heart's Desire49
Remembering Silk Cigar Ribbon Quilts 50
Tulip's Apron52
What About Finishing?54
Resources54
About the Author55

Basket Weave
Basket Weave

Gems on Point
Gems on Point

Old Maid Puzzle, Solved

Old Maid Puzzle, Solved

Surprise

Surprise

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