Friends have been generous in donating selvages to help me out. In return, I like to make them something a little special as well, customized just for them.
Ashley credits Flea Market Fancy by Denyse Schmidt with sparking her entry into the quilting world. If you follow her blog, then you know how that has turned out for her. And if you are a FMF lover, you know how hard that fabric is to find these days. Ashley was one of the first to send me a huge bag of selvages, all neatly trimmed and tied together. I made her a pincushion as a thank you. She emailed me a few weeks ago and wondered if I could make another pincushion so she would have one on each side of her sewing room. She requested that I make it out of FMF selvages, and generously offered to throw in some scraps for me as well.
I wanted to use as many selvages and color registration dots as possible, so I made it a little larger than usual.
I think Elizabeth found me via Bloggers Quilt Festival and generously sent a bag of selvages. She had been working on a quilt using a collection of French fabrics. But she also included some selvages from fabric I had never seen in my fifteen years of quilting, and they were amazing! To thank her for inspiring some new ideas, I made her a pincushion from her French selvages.
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Amy Priddy Creations. Amy was another generous donator to the cause and this pincushion will be on its way to her doorstep later today.
Of course I had to add her name by using an Amy Butler selvage. And the cute camera fabric by Enchino for the back:
My good friend, Katie, loves all things Amy Butler, Heather Bailey, FMF, etc. Well, you get the picture. She also has a darling son, Henry, who was born last year. So thanks to Alexander Henry, and to Heather Bailey for printing the year on her selvage, I made this pincushion for Katie:
I'm quite sure Henry will grow up to be a Free Spirit, so I couldn't go wrong with that selvage.
How about you? Do you have a favorite color, a favorite designer, special hobby? I'd love to customize something special just for you.
