Time for a Selvedge Edge Project!

I like to save the selvages off the sides of fabrics. I just throw them into a box and forget about them usually.  from time to time I think to myself "It would be fun to make something out of those".

I have also had it in my head for a while now to try this design with strip piecing or string piecing, 

it is a project from this book:

I just dumped on my selvages out onto the table, and pulled out the blue and gray ones.

Initially I was thinking a table runner so I made one diamond with two ends.

with selvages, you just overlap them onto a foundation made of paper or muslin and topstitch the finished edge down.I cut out a diamond that is about 14 inches across and 26 inches long. I should've made it from two equilateral triangles, but that detail escaped me at the time. it is been hot here lately and my brain isn't working at top capacity.  

nevertheless, I just stitched them down onto my paper making sure to leave lots for the seam allowance. 

Before I cut the shapes to size, I decided to stay stitch around the paper shape to keep the stitching from unravelling as I go.

the paper founations I made were the actual finished size, so when I trimmed theem I added the seam allowance.

Again in retrospect, I think I might have been a good idea to make it a little wider than a quarter inch.

once I put them up on my design wall, the shapes looked a little forlorn. So of course I had to make more pieces. 

So long to the table runner idea. Hello new quilt project.

so now I am this far. I have also been to the store to get a couple meters of gray fabric to use for the alternate triangles..... 

I used up all my blue and grey selvages.

Have a good day.