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If you want to add selvages to your stash you can buy them at the Fabric Square Too Hip to be Square! online shop. 

Via Selvage Blog

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Anya from Hills Creek Quilter blog made this postcard from fabric selvages. It’s a birthday gift for Moddy. Read more here.

[tags]selvage, thrift, eco-friendly, postcard, fabric[/tags]

Check out this pieced jean floor mat I found at Pat Sloan’s Corner; the how-to is at Instructables. She thinks it would be great to make one with selvages. I agree, and why not throw in some stash fabric you’ve come to dislike; the…

Denyse Schmidt Quilts online store has a section called Quilt Care where she explains the best way to care for the quilts she sales. To clean them, she said,

We recommend Engleside’s All American Quilt Wash, available through our…

Blanche of Just Tutorials shows how to make this eco-friendly quilt using wool sweaters. Get the tutorial.

[tags]quilting, sewing, upcycle, recycle, wool, sweaters[/tags]

Look what I found at Material Culture blog. LeeAnn Decker made this Spool quilt (small part shown here) from 100 % thrift store fabric.  Go here to see more.

[tags]quilting, spools, batiks, patchwork, thrift store fabric, Hawaiian shirts, silks, recycled shirts[/tags]

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Panda Prints 60cotton/40bamboo fabric, on sale at Shiisa Quilts.

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Look what I found at Butterick and McCall’s new online Quilt Design Shop. Our pets end up on our quilts anyway so why not make a quilted bed just for them. Upcycle your orphan blocks to get a head start on…

Check out Kathleen O”Neill’s quilt made of recycled materials.

Description of work:

One of a series of tin quilts has 3D tin roses on a patchwork of hundreds of individually nailed tin scraps. Edged with tin piping and lace.…

Rajboori has developed a contemporary line of quilts using Peace Silk.  

Their definition of Peace Silk:

Peace Silk is the only silk in which the silkworm is allowed to live a full life after emerging from the cocoon that is used to…

Check out Nancy’s picnic quilt top made from vintage sheets. Hey, I grew up with some of those. Love it! Go here for dimensions.

Via Wise Craft.

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