I make quilts out of selvages because that is the material I have been given; you know, "someone's junk is someone else's treasure," sort of thing. I have narrowed the projects down to two different foundations. The first is merely sew right on to the batting. The other is to lay out on fusible interfacing and press on; then sew. This REALY speeds things up! and they sew so nice and crisp looking. The author of this tutorial,
http://darlee.ca/Look-No-Pins.html says, "Look, no pins" but I never used pins on any of my selvage sewing; I am not real precise but I like the interfacing method for the neatness and making it more of a production line process for speed. Also, she irons with some open interfacing exposed; I never do this because with the distractions I have, "careful" isn't in my vocabulary! Another thing, seems to me all the selvage quilts on line look alike. . .Probably because I did them, mine seem different and original; maybe because not as much red or maybe it is quilts are like our children and we see them as totally unique and the cutest babies ever!
Here is a link I saw while browsing through the old boards here and would be great for selvages. There is even a freedownloadable pattern/directions! The tutorial is confusing since she uses pink and purple solids for the white in the directions but once you realize that it is a great pattern presentation -- and free!
http://annamariahorner.blogspot.com/...-my-field.html