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Jill
Number of posts : 6302
Age : 74
Location : SE Ohio
Registration date : 2010-11-15
| | Subject: question about selvages Tue Feb 22, 2011 9:06 pm | |
| I was wondering if you trim all your selvages before you start cutting or not? I have always just cut mine with each strip, but wondered if there is a right or wrong way and if it makes any difference.
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Calico_Chris
Number of posts : 4269
Location : Ann Arbor, Michigan USA
Registration date : 2008-09-03
| | Subject: Re: question about selvages Tue Feb 22, 2011 9:20 pm | |
| I always wash my fabric first thus the selvage ofen pulls the fabric wonky and it is very difficult to get it to hang straight. I'm a firm believer in squaring it up and I tear verticaly just inside the selvage, then I have a true straight of grain. I don't tear fabric horizontaly (WOF)
This is how I avoid that dreaded V when cutting folded strips. | |
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Gimpy Cat
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Location : One Stop From Antarctica - Tasmania, Australia
Registration date : 2008-09-02
| | Subject: Re: question about selvages Tue Feb 22, 2011 10:39 pm | |
| I dont trim mine off either Jill, just never got into the habit
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| | Subject: Re: question about selvages Tue Feb 22, 2011 11:56 pm | |
| CC never heard of tearing vertically. Must try that one day ! Do you tear before you wash ? I don't like tearing horizontally. hate the way you get that edge with the stretched out look . |
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FiberBabble
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Age : 62
Location : SW WA
Registration date : 2008-09-04
| | Subject: Re: question about selvages Wed Feb 23, 2011 12:02 am | |
| - Jill wrote:
- I was wondering if you trim all your selvages before you start cutting or not? I have always just cut mine with each strip, but wondered if there is a right or wrong way and if it makes any difference.
Jill I didn't cut them off all at once until I started saving them, Jill. My early selvages are pretty much all shorter than 13". Now I have a few that are 90-105" long.  Now I actually plan ahead a bit - and I do cut it off, leaving ½" above the white of the selvage. I've seen a number of projects with just the white and its writing and dots, but I like having the choice of showing a quarter inch or so of the actual fabric if I want to. _________________ Perfection is the enemy of progress
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quiltermarynel
Number of posts : 14335
Location : Trinity Co. California
Registration date : 2008-09-03
| | Subject: Re: question about selvages Wed Feb 23, 2011 1:41 am | |
| I vary. I dislike wonkiness, but also dislike loose threads, I sometimes tear, but more often cut them off if they distort the fabric, otherwise leave them until I am working with that particular piece. | |
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golo
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Number of posts : 13572
Age : 76
Location : Grafton ND
Registration date : 2008-09-02
| | Subject: Re: question about selvages Wed Feb 23, 2011 8:30 am | |
| Jill, I am big on saving the selvages and now that I have made a quilt from them and other small projects, I want to save them all ... so I cut them off first leaving about a 1/2" of fabric on them so I when I sew I see some of the fabric... makes for a more colorful project. | |
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texasmusicmom
Number of posts : 8913
Age : 66
Location : Columbia, South Carolina, USA
Registration date : 2008-09-05
| | Subject: Re: question about selvages Wed Feb 23, 2011 2:11 pm | |
| I usually trim mine off.....to avoid the distortion. | |
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