So here's the plan. My next selvage quilt is going to be a winter scene featuring a large selvage snowman. The design, and I use that term sooooo loosely, is above. I'll say that things are already off to a less than auspicious start because when I asked my three-year-old daughter what Mommy had drawn she said a robot. Hmmmmmmm. I laughed and then like any good quilter, I added Robot Selvage Quilt to my To-Do list. Wouldn't that be cool? I can think of about a million potential details for it! But anyway, back to the Selvage Snowman. He's going to be super cool too.
I had this (potentially disastrous) brainwave that I would actually blog along as I go and show my process/progress. It should definitely provide some comic relief around here because the rough drawings above are all I'm going from. It is freestyle from there. I've thought through how to approach the main elements, but there is a big difference between thinking about something and actually doing it ... I want to be as forthcoming as possible in recording what I'm doing -- missteps and mistakes included. Believe me, my seam ripper is at the ready.-
My only timeline for this is of course to finish before Christmas.
I started the tiniest little bit yesterday. Step one was to check out my raw materials -- the selvages above. I have accumulated a few more of my own lately since I've bought fabric for Christmas gifts, but I thankfully have been given some selvages too. I have no idea if I have enough to complete this quilt, but I'm not worrying about that now. I use any section of selvage with a white edge. I prefer the parts with numbers and words, but I also use the plain parts. If I didn't I'd never have enough.
I was looking through my selvages for particular words that I wanted to save for special places in the quilt -- words like snow, snowy, winter, cold, really anything related to the topic. And I definitely wanted the word Christmas, which I knew I had. I dug through my selvage pile for this The Twelve Joys of Christmas fabric by Sheri Berry. Except it says "Cheistmas"!!! The ink is blurred a bit on the selvage above but I checked another couple of selvages from fabrics in this same line and sure enough it's Cheistmas again and again.
Anyway, here's the start of the actual quilt. This will be the bottom snowball making up the snowman. I fussy cut a snowflake for the center. That is a 3 inch square I think (or close).
I used the snowflake as a guide to make my octagon shape for the selvages. I want the whole thing to look like it was rolled up just like a real snowball, so I am putting the selvages on in a log-cabin style. I have no idea how big this will end up, but this is the first part started. Yay! Now I just need to circle and circle, roll and roll.-
Until next time ... Happy Quilting!
