Maverick/frugal/use what you have

Have you heard about the book on making quilts with selvages as the emphasis? Karen Griska is the Author & she has a blog. I was blog hopping - clicking on hyperlinks, etc. & I found her blog yesterday. I left a comment - she was looking for a translation on a Japanese selvage. I mentioned that I have some Japanese fabric where those color dots are not dots... She wanted to see what I was talking about, this is what I sent her:

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If I had more that 3, I would seriously think about making a small quilt with selvages. Also on regular cottons, the selvages are getting to be prettier & prettier. I noticed that while cutting setting triangles for my dad's quilt last weekend - lets just say that at least one of those lights was rather old...

As it is, I was inspired by a doll quilt on flickr & started to save nice selvages - but when I downsized to make room for the baby, those were tossed early...