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Dephemerember 2023: Salvaged Birds

The second prompt for Dephemerember 2023 was “Salvaged Birds.”

As a quilter, I have plenty of fabric selvages (the bound edge on fabric when you buy it by the yard) lying around and the word salvage made me think of selvage. I wound up making a purple collage of fabric selvages then adding yellow bird photos for contrasting focal points.

Two pockets made with bird photos and collaged fabric selvages.

While I did cover the backs with paper, I realized that all the sewing will make them too lumpy to write on the back, so I will be using them as pockets or tuck spots. Or possibly notebook covers. Something like that.

I put paper on the back of both pockets to cover the stitching.

Another very simple approach, but I love the results.

Do selvages count as salvage?

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