Jean pocket quilt

by Robin How have I not shared this recycled jeans denim quilt with you yet?!? It's one of my absolute favourites. It combines so much of what I love: making something beautiful and useful for

Upcycled Recycled Blue Jean Denim Quilt

If you are planning on making a quilt with your old blue jeans then these tips for quilting with denim jeans will help you out.

by Robin How have I not shared this recycled jeans denim quilt with you yet?!? It's one of my absolute favourites. It combines so much of what I love: making something beautiful and useful for

You guys! I just finished this beast-of-a-quilt, and it is gorgeous, even for denim! I don't normally do commission quilts, in fact, never. I don't have time. But my sister had a friend who begged to have a quilt made from all his old Levis. I quoted a price that I figured would change his mind, and he accepted! Now, I just needed about 50 hours to do it. At first, they brought over a bag of jeans that had basically one tone of denim. He must love a certain brand! To create any kind of…

A friend from church asked me to make 2 throw-size quilts using his belated father's shirts and jeans. These were flannel and cotton shirts, many of them used while working on the farm....I included back pockets from the jeans. This wasn't a hard project except for the part where I cut into the clothes. It's not physically hard, but it certainly is an emotional journey. I also included a small blue jean patch, there was a hole in one of the shirts that I didn't notice until I was at the…

Denim Quilts , Tips, Articles and Patterns on making quilts using upcycled Denim jeans.

I originally had another denim stained glass pattern in mind but, our friend was small so wouldn't have been able to cut any 12" squares (unless I left some leg seams in them which I thought might make the quilt even heavier less comfortable). I saw the idea for this quilt for a similar style but with smaller pieces on The Flemings Nine blog. There doesn't seem to be a pattern for it but, color blocks are pretty popular these days so a quick search will give you plenty of free blocks…

This pattern is a fav of mine and as my pile of worn out jeans piled up, I put aside a layer cake bundle (10' squares from the same fabr...