Little Bits.....: I was cutting the binding

for the quilt that will be posted on Tuesday. It was a blue/grey fabric......I thought. I looked at the selvedge and couldn't for the life of me see these colours.

Where was that pink, the yellow, the blue? I didn't honestly see it. I picked up my phone and snapped a close up......and there they were. Surprisingly, as I stitched the binding down the colours were more visible or maybe, I finally just saw them.

I dug out some more. Some selvedges are just plain and others are

All of these colours are in this piece of fabric that will be a backing for a quilt that I have to get done. Baby is arriving soon.

I kept looking......this will be a backing for a panel called "Construction Zone". I've bought three of them and one is sold so I have to get cracking on that one too.

A larger photo of the fabric. I still can't find the black but it's there.

I love selvedges and have been known to keep a few. I should actually save the cute ones and do something with them.

They all tell a little story. Every little colour in that selvedge is in the fabric. Every little colour you could use for your binding or for a co-ordinate and it would tie the quilt together.

Watch for what I do over the next little while. Sometimes I branch out on the bindings, sometimes I co-ordinate, sometimes I use left over strips from perhaps a nine patch, sometimes something else in the quilt talks to me and tells me what to do. And yes, I have been known to use several pieces of fabric and make a scrappy binding.

I make most of my quilts for children and I want them to be fun. The children that receive them have had medical issues and some have spent months in hospital. Giving them some sunshine in their lives is what I hope to achieve.

We popped over to Ronald McDonald House in Hamilton yesterday