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.
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.
Another very simple approach, but I love the results.
Do selvages count as salvage?

