Description
'Cut off the selvages.' That s often the first thing new quilters learn about fabric in beginning classes. But what do you do with them? Throw them away? Never again! Not after you see the vivid and ingenious creations they can become. Here are quilts that will appeal to every scrapsaver and fabric stash owner. Karen's ingenious use of selvages turns them into fun and imaginative quilts. There are detailed, photo-illustrated instructions on how to make every shape block used in these quilts. Combine the selvage-pieced blocks with complementary fabrics for visually exciting and dramatic quilts. Karen shows you every step of the process for making these scrappiest of scrap quilt blocks. And you thought selvages were only to trim off!
Reviews
This book is worth every penny! The quilts are amazing and they are easy to make. There is a Log Cabin, a Tree-of-Life, Tumbling Blocks, a Pineapple, a Basket Weave, and a Star quilt. Thirteen in all. They look complicated but really aren't! The instructions are clear and simple. You can easily see how these quilts go together just by looking at the step-by-step pictures....-Lynne Jakubauskas
Reader Reviews
Review of Quilts from the Selvage Edge - 09/01/2008
Reviewer: Quilter's Home from USA
You’re going to want to start dumpster diving when you get a load of designer and author Karen Griska’s RED ZINGER quilt, which is made entirely from leftover selvages from quilting fabrics. In the interest of full disclosure, Karen had invited me to write the foreword to her recent, marvelously unique book, “Quilts from the Selvage Edge,” put out by one of my favorite quilting book publishers, American Quilter’s Society. My reward? She designed a selvage quilt just for you and “Quilter’s Home.” You really owe it to your stash and their selvages to make at least on of these fun-to-look-at quilts.
Review of Quilts from the Selvage Edge - 08/20/2008
Reviewer: The Bookwatch from USA
Karen Griska offers tips on using selvages in quilting projects. Quilt pieces can save money and use discarded possibilities to produce lovely quilted results using this discussion of fast, easy quilt production. Projects are accompanied by color photos and sidebars of information exploring the entire process of using selvage edges in complete quilts.
Review of Quilts from the Selvage Edge - 08/20/2008
Reviewer: The Professional Quilter from Latonsville, Maryland, USA
Who would have thought all those selvages tossed in the trash could make such beautiful quilts? Karen Griska takes the selvages, sews them to muslin foundations, and then cuts them to size as squares, strips or triangles and creates quilts. They are fun and folksy, and I know I won’t look at selvages the same way again.
Review of Quilts from the Selvage Edge - 03/27/2008
Reviewer: Helen Wolf from Lahaska, PA, US
I have been blessed to have Karen for a friend, and have had the opportunity to read the manuscript of her first book. It is a winner for sure! Karen has gone beyond the scope of normal imagination, and has come up with wonderful ways to use what until now, everyone has discarded. Making quilts, and other items from the selvage edge is an experience in innovative fabric use. Give it a try, and join the new wave of using every bit of your fabric.
