Selvage Bag to Carry Water Bottle

Silvana Flamini of Rome, Italy made this clever bag to carry her water bottle. That's a good idea! She has a tutorial on her blog. You can also learn how to cook some wonderful dishes there.

Edible Fashion Accessories by Fulvio Bonavia

Fulvio Bonavia is a photographer in Milan, Italy who creates and photographs these amazing edible fashion images. Some he arranges in the studio and others he creates with photoshop. To see more take a look at this book "A Mater of Taste," or visit his website: http://www.fulviobonavia.com/.

New Zippered Selvage Bag - from Italy!

Francesca from Padova, Italy made this sweet selvage bag. She's going on a cruise and wanted a bag that was big enough for all her cosmetics, like suntan lotion, which she hopes to need. Nice colors, ruffled green flower, and I like those two beads on the zipper-pull too. Nice job, Francesca! Have a wonderful trip!

Francesca's blog is: www.pezzepercaso.blogpost.com. Click on the translate button at the top. It's the little flag icon.

Meet Patrizia Rossini of Rome!

Patrizia Rossini of Rome, Italy made these beautiful bags using selvages. The top photo is a bag made from the selvages of Japanese fabrics, and the bottom photo is a bag made from African fabrics! What soft, warm earth colors.

Weaving the selvages is such a creative idea. And the sturdy selvage makes a strong bag.

Brava, Patrizia!

Comfort a Child in Italy!

Italian quilter Roberta Sperandio is asking quilters everywhere to make quilts for children who have lost their homes in the recent terrible earthquakes in Italy. You can read about it on her blog: http://www.simplyninepatch.blogspot.com/. (Post dated April 20th; it's in Italian and English.) You can email her for more information at: roberta.sperandio@alice.it.

Selvage Hat from Rome, Italy!

Doesn't this whimsical hat by Silvana Flamini of Rome, Italy make you smile? What a great job she did; I love the shape and the addition of the buttons. Nice job, Silvana!

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Take a look at Silvana's blog: http://unpopercelia.blogspot.com/. She is a wonderful chef as well as a textile artist. If you can read Italian maybe you can also create some of those delicious dishes she shows!

Selvage CD Case from Rome, Italy

Silvana Flamini of Rome, Italy made this clever CD case. I like her shaggy selvages. Regular readers here will remember Silvana's selvage belt. She is a very talented cook, photographer, crafter and quilter. You will enjoy her blog: http://www.unpopercelia.blogspot.com.
Nice job, Silvana!

Meet Silvana Flamini of Rome!

Silvana Flamini of Rome, Italy is a talented crafter, cook and photographer. You can see evidence of all three on her blog: http://www.unpopercelia.blogspot.com/. It will help if you can read Italian, but the pictures are worth a thousand words.

She made this belt from recycled jeans. Very clever!

And I love that photo of the cabbage. Wouldn't it be interesting to print it on fabric for a quilt?