Blue selvage queen size quilt

Thanks once again to Karen Griska for her book....Quilts from the Selvage Edge.  i went to the edge and never came back. i am addicted to selvages. i don't think there is a 12 step program for that, though.

This one finally came off the frame....it is rather large....a bit larger than queen. i had originally put it together helter skelter and then decided to unsew the blocks and make this pattern. i like this better.

I used yards and yards of blue fabrics for the background.

And large piles of selvages.

Selvage quilts are always so much fun. no thinking...no measuring...just pedal to the floor. LOL

And i used up 4 different fabrics piecing the back. gotta love that stashbusting.

I quilted it freehand. but used a ruler to draw the circle in the plain parts. i used a King Tut thread on top and a turquoise So Fine on the bottom. this allows me to use up thread on my quilts that my customers don't choose for theirs.

I have a bright yellow selvage quilt with roosters coming up in the quilting queue. and a black and white selvage top being pieced (slowly).

I actually have some empty plastic boxes....that's how i know i am making progress with all these UFOs and stashbusting efforts.

Gotta go load a customer quilt. talk to ya

Later

Blue Gems on Point

This selvage quilt is from a pattern in Karen Griska's book...Quilts from the Selvage Edge.  i think this is the third of her patterns i have made. a great book if you are at all interested in selvage quilting. 

This is just the top...no quilting yet. I pulled all my blue fabrics that i had no other use for and cut out 10" squares for the foundations. after adding selvages, i trimmed them down to 9.5"   i think i might have showed you the first 4 rows....this is how it looked originally.

But i decided that looked too messy and disorganized. so i took all those blocks apart and sorted them by foundation fabrics to see what i actually had. then i decided to put them together so the same fabrics surrounded the little diamonds of selvages. better, i think. This navy blue polka dot made my eyes cross while stitching.

I really like this one of the sea scene.

I tried to plan them out so the same color blocks would not be next to each other. it is still busy...that is the way of selvage quilts...but in a 'controlled' busy way. LOL

This top didn't need borders...it is already 90 x 108" and kind of heavy. i will keep it for our bed. 

The thing i like about selvage quilts is that it doesn't matter if points don't match up...normally they won't...selvages can be any width unless you choose them not to be. i love the scrappiness of it all.

My blue selvage box was stuffed to overflowing and after all this.....i still have half a box left....enough for at least one more quilt....maybe 2.

So now it goes to marinade in the to be quilted cabinet. but it has to come out and be quilted by February so i can take it to a talk i am giving on selvage quilts.

Hope you like it.