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Selvedge Dress

ric rac selvedge dress

Jodie from Ric Rac can't stop coming up with incredible projects using left over selvedge from sewing projects. She made this entire dress out of selvedge. It took her about 5 months and she needed selvedge donations to have enough.

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Posted by: fififolle on November 3, 2008 at 10:07 PM

Selvedge love

Just wanted to let you know that I think this is totally amazing. Would never have thought those little "scraps" could be turned into something so lovely.

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Posted by: bibliogrrl.livejournal.com on October 13, 2008 at 9:32 AM

actually...

Main Entry:
sel·vage Listen to the pronunciation of selvage
Variant(s):
or sel·vedge Listen to the pronunciation of selvedge \ˈsel-vij\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
Middle English selfegge, selvage, from self self + egge edge (after Middle Dutch selfegghe)
Date:
15th century

1 a: the edge on either side of a woven or flat-knitted fabric so finished as to prevent raveling ; specifically : a narrow border often of different or heavier threads than the fabric and sometimes in a different weave b: an edge (as of fabric or paper) meant to be cut off and discarded2: an outer or peripheral part : border , edge

Totally is a word. Sorry. :D

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Posted by: Rebecca Stern on October 13, 2008 at 9:26 AM

@Mary Johanssen: selvedge is the edge of fabric that you normally don't use in sewing. It's the machine edge and keeps the whole bolt from fraying. More info:

http://sewing.about.com/od/sewingglossarypt/g/selvedge.htm

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Posted by: Mary Johanssen on October 13, 2008 at 8:08 AM

Spell check

The word is "salvage" not selvedge. Selvedge is not a word.

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