More Jean Circle Quilts

Denim - it goes with everything and although the quilts made from them are heavier than a normal quilt - they will wear forever!
This lap size quilt was made early in 2024 and the customer who bought it loved it. She then messaged me to ask if I could make another one, this time in a Queen size. 
So I tapped into my online friend network to find the denim I needed as that first quilt used up all the denim I had on had. I ended up with a pile of a variety of colors. My customer then requested that she would like the faded denim look from the first quilt - which I made solely from my husbands worn jeans that were all the same style and color. The denim I had collected was definitely more on the medium to dark blue and wouldn't work for her.
I had one more friend that had jeans for me and thankfully, most of her jeans were the well-faded variety! Not sure that I had enough for a queen quilt, I traced and cut out circles, figuring that if I didn't have enough, I would at least know what I did have.
Most modern quilt making techniques involve using a rotary cutter and a ruler - which is far easier than the hand cutting with scissors that was required for the circle cutting. And . . . I had enough!
I layered a cotton fabric square with a piece of batting on the denim circles and stitched an X on them before sewing together. 
Queen size was going to be a challenge to maneuver through my machine, so I finished the quilt in four pieces and joined them together at the very end, so I would only have minimal seams at the very end. 
There were a little more variety in the shades of the faded denim than the first quilt, but the well-worn faded look is so beautiful in this larger quilt!
When a quilt is a custom order like this one, I only have a day or two to take photos for my records and I just love this one taken in front of our barn. Love it!

--Ann


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