Revamped Ironing Board Cabinet with Selvages...

In my last post, I showed what the ironing board cabinet looked like with a pink floral fabric in the door. Here's what it looks like today.
Inside- please notice my winning wall hanging compliments of Lynz. I think it's just perfect in there and I'll see it ALL the time. Thanks again, Lynz, I really love it!

That bit of lime green inside the cabinet is a permanent reminder to me of why you shouldn't paint a room that gets little natural light, lime green, no matter HOW much you love lime green. :) I painted it again, 2 shades lighter, the minute my husband left town for a few days. I'm not sure that he has ever noticed the change! lol I couldn't stand that much lime green, though, it was photographing nicely but in person was such an overwhelming color and it had a gloss to it that made it even worse. This is much better!

This cabinet is right next to the hutch that holds all the fabric, so I dug out my selvages that I'd been saving and lined them up on a piece of Warm and Natural and sewed the down. I also marked several lines on it to help me from running off level as I sewed.

Once they were all on, I trimmed it and then added a backing fabric and used the pattern on that to quilt them together. I basted around the edge after trimming it again to size and then I hot glued it into the frame. I didn't have any pretty cord that was big enough to cover the raw edges so I covered some cord with a bias piece of fabric that went with the colorful selvages.

Close up of the cord- it looks like spline, but it only covers the raw edges.

And the exterior- fabric by Paula Prass.

And Nosey Parker is SO sweepy! Actually, I sweep and then she jumps behind the broom and scatters my pile of debris. What a girl. :)

Her daddy sees her like this and says "she's retracted her landing gear." lol Spoken just like the pilot that he was. And honestly, I DO mop, but the floor sure looks dingy in this photo! It must be the artificial light! Yeah, that's gotta be it.

Sewing with selvages...

It's hard to get a good photo of a black cat, so you have to admire Sammie in this one. :) He's our little mutant kitty, he has a stubby tail and long fangs, the victim of horrible inbreeding from a bunch of wild cats over at Jim's mother's old house. We rescued him while he was young enough to get over his feral beginnings. He's a very sweet boy but he loses collars at a horrible rate!

I've been working on two different selvage projects. Here's one of them, I think it took me all of 5 minutes! I made a cat collar for Sammie out of a piece of selvage fabric from my last quilt, it looks pretty cute on him and if he gets it off this winter, maybe I'll be able to find it out in the drab woods/snow. See the selvage dots on his collar?

A better shot, but only slightly.

The other project should be done tonight or tomorrow, but all it is is a selvage quilt for the door to my wall-mounted ironing board. I had a piece of fabric in it that I just didn't really like. It was wrapped around the board that was originally in it, it was a tole painted thing from 20 years ago that I covered with fabric. Anyway, it was too thick and kept wanting to pop out of the frame so I thought I would quilt something to fill that space. Here's the before- it's the pink rectangle on the left. I just laid out selvage strips and sewed to them to a piece of Warm and Natural. I'm backing it with a piece of black and white fabric and machine quilting it right now. A little binding and some tacks and it'll be done. I'm excited. I'll see the selvage strips all the time because I rarely close this cabinet. The cover on the ironing board is black and white, too.

So that's what I've been working on. Stay tuned for a finished shot hopefully tomorrow.