Thursday, July 28, 2011

Dinah's Fabulous String-Selvage Quilt


This is Dinah Snyder's first selvage quilt. It measures 84" square and it barely made a dent in her selvage stash! She likes to cut her selvages wide so they show a good amount of the printed fabric, but even so! Dinah used the quilt-as-you-go method. I love how she put the blue plaid strip in the middle of each block to get the nice trellis effect. Such a classic string quilt!


Dinah is a second grade teacher in Indiana. She has quilts on display in her school that she made with her students. Can you imagine learning about quilting as a second grader? Lucky kids! I think Dinah needs a blog; it would be so interesting to see a tutorial for this quilt and see what she's making with the kids. Great job, Dinah!

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18 comments:

  1. UnknownJuly 28, 2011 at 3:08 AM

    What an awesome quilt. I love the way she's alternated dark and light selveges. Isn't it time you wrote another book about selvege quilts and things Karen??

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  2. FabricFascinationJuly 28, 2011 at 6:14 AM

    This is a stunning quilt, love it!

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  3. Abby and StephanieJuly 28, 2011 at 6:29 AM

    Hurray for terrific teachers. This is a fantastic quilt.

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  4. UnknownJuly 28, 2011 at 7:05 AM

    What a fabulous quilt! I would have loved to learn about quilting then. Couldn't you just imagine how many more years and quilts I would have under my belt?

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  5. Pinkadot QuiltsJuly 28, 2011 at 7:16 AM

    Wow it's great!

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  6. JodiJuly 28, 2011 at 8:34 AM

    Thanks for sharing that beauty!

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  7. ElsaJuly 28, 2011 at 8:41 AM

    WOW! for being a first it's awesome!

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  8. BrendaJuly 28, 2011 at 10:50 AM

    I love strings quilts like this! when my sons were in elementary school, we made a quilt every year with their classes. and we even made a hand stitched string quilt. by the end of grade 6, we had several very proficient stitchers.

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  9. Yvonne MorganJuly 28, 2011 at 1:25 PM

    Fabulous!

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  10. KimJuly 28, 2011 at 6:57 PM

    Oh Karen you are such a good cheerleader and I'm ready to join in and give Dinah a huge cheer for a job well done!
    Makes me smile to know that there are still great teachers out there that love what they do.

    Happy sewing

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  11. GreenmareJuly 28, 2011 at 7:31 PM

    that is ONE GORGEOUS quilt!!!!

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  12. DebJuly 28, 2011 at 10:05 PM

    Wow!! That is an amazing quilt!

    Deb from clutteredquilter.blogspot.com

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  13. MariQuiltsJuly 29, 2011 at 1:48 AM

    Beautiful quilt.

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  14. NickyJuly 29, 2011 at 4:10 AM

    Love the dark/light blocks - how clever is she!?

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  15. electricdunceJuly 29, 2011 at 12:06 PM

    Wow, that is a dazzler!

    Karin

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  16. JustPamJuly 29, 2011 at 4:40 PM

    Love it! I am going to have to bite the bullet and start cutting those selvages in usable sizes.

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  17. JoAnne in southern CaliforniaJuly 29, 2011 at 11:47 PM

    This quilt is an inspiration!

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  18. stufenzumgerichtJuly 30, 2011 at 4:34 AM

    It really looks absolutely stunning!!! Martina

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