Selvage Placemats

Have you visited Keepsake Quilting in Center Harbor, NH? It's a gorgeous quilt shop well worth the trip. I noticed they're offering a pattern for selvage placemats. You probably already know how to do this. (Lay your selvages on a foundation and then sew along the bound edge of each selvage, being sure to cover the raw edge of the selvage underneath.) I thought it was interesting to see selvages featured in a "mainstream" quilt shop catalog (shown here).

Trip to Keepsake Quilting in NH

I just made my annual pilgrimage to Keepsake Quilting in Center Harbor, New Hampshire. Look what I saw in town: a Keepsake Quilting truck! I wonder what goodies they're hauling around in that. 

This is one of my purchases: a yard of blue fabric designed by Maria Kalinowski for Benartex called "Pool." I think I'll make a pillowcase out of it first. Then it will go into a quilt later, maybe. Or perhaps a bunch of pincushions. Haha. You never know. The price was about $11.50/yard. Yikes!

Keepsake Features Selvage Quilt Book

Have you visited Keepsake Quilting in Center Harbor, NH? It's a huge and gorgeous quilt shop I love to see when I visit my sister Eileen in nearby Holderness. They're also online at: http://www.keepsakequilting.com/default.aspx

I'm excited to report that they featured the book "Quilts from the Selvage Edge" recently: http://www.keepsakequilting.com/thriftyquilter.aspx?&utm_medium=EmailPush&utm_source=KQ_2009_10_19&utm_campaign=KQ_Oct19_2009_Promo_trickstreats&utm_content=thriftyquilter&lm=kpkq&SCODE=kepush
Scroll half-way down the page to see it. Lots of other good ideas there too. :)

Thank you to Jocelyn at Happy Cottage Quilter http://happycottagequilter.blogspot.com/ for bringing this to my attention!