I have decided to combine my other chosen pastime (reading books) with my first love (quilting) to make a quilt. In perusing Pinterest, I found several that inspired me. I'm afraid I didn't make note of the quilters who created these, but I'm sure you can find them on Pinterest by searching "bookcase quilts."
For several years, I've collected the printed selvages off my fabric hoping to someday incorporate them into a project, which I have never got around to doing. In fact, I have given away a bagful of selvages but have managed to collected a couple of bagsful and a binful more. I've decided that many of them will make great titles for the spines of my bookcase books.
So I spent this morning going through my scrap basket and cutting different size strips to serve as books. I had already pulled a bunch of selvages that I think will work. I believe not all the "books" will have selvage titles. And I haven't decided what other nicknacks will join the books to grace the shelves.
I've already decided where this quilt will live when it's done--on the hanger in my foyer where I hang seasonal quilts. (I still have the Christmas Tree quilting hanging there, BTW.) I'll probably leave the bookcase quilt there except during the holidays, when I will hang one of my Christmas quilts.
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On 03/02/2021, Barbara Anne said ...
What a stellar idea!! I love the brilliant notion to use selvage information as book titles, too. Hope you have fun imagining what to put on your bookcases and enjoy every part of the process.
Love the bookcase you found on-line, too.
Hugs!
On 03/10/2021, Trudy Abernathy-Neill said ...
I seldom think or remember to check for ideas on Pinterest and these are all so cute! Good idea about saving the borders /and or salvages, if it is one that I especially like and may want to reorder, I will cut them off with a tiny piece so I will know. You are very organized !!
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