Making Selvedge Fabric

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I’ll walk you through a fun way of how to make selvedge fabric. In addition, you’ll gain insight into making panels or pattern pieces of fabric to form quilt blocks, bag panels from leftover fabric selvedge.

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Materials Needed

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Step 1: Prepare Your Selvedge

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Step 2: Color Coordinated or Random?

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Step 3: Start Sewing

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Using your sewing machine, sew as close to the fabric edge as possible, keeping the stitches on top. We aren’t sewing and flipping here we are basically top stitching.

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Swipe Up To Learn More!

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