Black selvages

What do you do when you are tired of working on the blue selvage quilt.....why you start a black selvage project. that's how you work....right?  don't say no....i know you do.

While working on the blue selvages...making rail fence blocks....i am halfway through with that one. .... i started thinking what if i made log cabin-like selvage blocks. that would be fun.

So, then i decided to unify them and use a 2" red block for the center and black selvages around it. i decided to only use the selvages that did not have the white part on them. i have 90 little red squares cut up so i hope i have enough black selvages to make all those. if not...i will go to plan B when i get there. LOL

I just started on one side and rotated to the right each time and added another strip and then rotated again....and again...and again. until the block got over 7.5" large. Then i used my 7.5" X-Block template to trim them up. my friend, Brenda, gifted me with some lovely smelling starch and i used it on these blocks when i ironed them before trimming up. thank you, Brenda....i was not a starch lover but i like this. it makes them ever so easy to trim and they just LOOK prettier.

So, here are the 4 that i did last night. now i am eager to make more.   Oh...those blue selvages....they are in their box and will re-surface again....probably when i get tired of making black blocks.

Here is the XBlock template that i trimmed them up with. it was tempting to make them wonky instead of straight...but that would use more fabric and waste some corners and i didn't want to do that.

But...you know what...i just now had a brain fart....if i run out of black selvages without white edges...i could make more blocks WITH the white edges and then cut THOSE wonky. that would make a really crazy quilt. i kind of like that idea, too. i need a switch in my brain to turn off ideas sometimes.

Oh...and i used red thread to sew them down to match up with the red center block. and using whatever width selvage that i picked up made the red block un-centered. i like that wonky look. and there are some gray in there, too...i count that as black.

I don't know if i will put them together without sashing or not. i guess it depends how many blocks i wind up with. with sashing i am leaning towards red sashing...maybe 1" wide. i hope there are enough to make a good snuggle size quilt.

Got black selvages???  i might need more. LOL

OK...i gotta go put a binding on the orange thing that i created yesterday so i can show you that. keep checking back.