LOL, dublb! Sorry can't help you with the selvages. Now that sounds like something that would happen to me. Congrats to your son's white coat...what a step...you have every right to be proud.
I'm in the midst of another UFO hoping to finish it next week. In my decluttering, I found denim and cotton quilt blocks (56 of them). I took a couple of days and sewed them together. Then GD#1 tried the LA for the first time..did a nice job of meandering. I bound it...my DIL claimed it so it went up the road. Nights are starting to get chilly here and no one wants to start the furnace yet.
This UFO has 143 blocks...I had to make about 20 of them before I started putting them together. Sewing rows together now.