My best quilting friend & I have been saving selvages for years. We recently got together for a few days of fabric, fun, food & wine!!!(hehehe)
Here is what I made with the selvages, then I machine quilted it on my Gammill Premier Plus. I didn't buy anything new for this quilt, I already had the thread, the backing, the binding & the batting. It was lots of fun to do. (and a personal challenge to use only what I already had)

Here are a few close ups of the quilting on my selvage quilt

I love it!!! Great job.

Kyia

WOW!!! That's a bunch of selvages! I need to get me some of that wine you were talking about.

WOW :shock: Love the quilt and that is a LOT of selvages!!!! :D :D :D Great job on the quilting, too 8) 8) 8)

Wow what a neat idea. And to think all this time I have been throwing them away! It looks great. It really has a lot of "motion".

FF

How fun! love it!!!

That is the ultimate scrap quilt1 I love it!! :D :D
makes me sick when I think of all the salvages i have thrown away over the years! :cry: :cry:
From now on I"m saving them! :wink:

Absolutely stunning!

I have heard of these type of quilts, but never seen one done before. Thank you for posting the pics. It turned out really neat.

I can't believe I've been throwing out selvages all this time. Time to start saving them, I suppose :) I save just about everything else it seems :) You know...just in case (lol)

Great job on your salvage quilt!!!!! it sure is interesting and colourful!!

This quilt is stunning, I love it!!!

That is amazing, I think it's great. What was that wine you were drinking?

WOW! Selveges, huh! Great job :thumbup:

What a beautiful quilt - I have always wondered what you could so with the selvages!!

Absolutely stunning! Shows that one woman's trash is another woman's treasure, huh?

I have been saving mine on a role thinking I would crochet a rag rug! I may have changed my mind! :lol:

That is soooo pretty :!:

I've been saving selvages too. Going to start on mine this winter.

That is so pretty!

How totally cool!!

Looks great!! Now I'll have to start saving the selvages.LOL

That looks tedious! :D

WOW, your quilt is just outstanding!

And it tells me a lot about you.....

You are one patient quilter to use all those tiny scraps of fabric!
I admire your persistence!

That's wonderful!!!

that's beautiful but you had better start saving them while you're young, you get old and don't have enough time left. in fact i'm so old i'm afraid to buy green bananas, lol.

What a beautiful quilt!! I save all my scraps just in case, now I know what just in case is!

:lol: Dojo36, are you related to Sophia on GOLDEN GIRLS?? Yes, I would think it would take a long time to save up the selveges. How long have you been keeping them to be able to make a quilt as large as this one?

It has never occurred to me to use selvages. How incredibly creative! I love the way it looks -- and it's "fun".

WOW! Amazing! How long did it take you?

judee

i think i must be, lol

WOW Love it. you did a super job. I think I need to check my trash can!!!

Really great looking quilt! Looks like you really worked long and hard on it. Thanks to you I now save all my tiny chunks and scraps in a large glass jar, it's almost full. I've got another one ready to fill. It's colorful!!

Wonderful.

Your quilt is beautiful!! :D I just love
the way it turned out. How wide of a
piece of selvage do like to cut?
:D :D :D

COOL! Great job!

that is sooooooooooo cool. i love it. you did a great job!!!!!!!!!!

Well fellow quilters, in response to your questions: My friend and I have only been saving selvages for about 10 years. We each made a quilt recently about the same size (mine is 60 inch square). Most amazing is we both still have plenty of selvages left to make more quilts. It is amazing how fast you can get a pile of those things. We didn't pay attention to size before, BUT now after making our quilts, we have decided that we should cut AT LEAST a couple of inches wide when cutting the selvages off our fabrics. It has been one of the most fun quilts I have made...no stress, no cutting from templates or patterns, no matching points. Just pick a block size, cut your foundation a little larger than finished block size, sew strips along the selvage edge onto your foundation block, overlap the next piece on the raw edge & trim when each block is finished (and yes I saved those trimmings too!) sew blocks together. It goes together really quickly. The possiblities are endless. THANK YOU all for your generous compliments.

Also to answer the question: "How long did it take to make" Well I didn't work on it non-stop. I started it in February, stopped to make another quilt, & some other projects, then finished it it June. So I would say, if I had to figure how long it took,....a couple of months if I didn't work on anything else.

Wow!!!!