Having large piles of blue jeans on hand for quilt making or other items means boxes and bins taking up space. Used clothing requires deconstruction and while I looked for faded denim jeans and waited for my customer to get back to me with an ok for her queen quilt, I started the task of cutting everything apart.
I cut the jean legs from the tops right at the crotch level, leaving the tops intact for making bags. I then cut the seams off and I have a few ideas for those pieces that will show up over the next year or so.
A lot of the darker jean legs were cut into squares and matched with some purple and green flannel fabrics that I already cut into squares for a rag quilt and layered them with a square of batting that was an inch smaller.
After laying them out to get a random placement of the flannel fabrics, it was time to sew it all together. I had enough squares for two lap size quilts - big enough to use on a twin bed as an extra blanket.
After sewing the squares together with the seam allowances showing on the front, it was time to clip the seams for a ragged edge. This took several evenings of clipping while watching television.
Final step is running it through the washing machine to fray the seam edges and get that ragged look. It was almost too much for my washing machine and the lint filters needed cleaning a few times through the process.
But the rich denim colors are so great with the flannels and gives a much different look than the faded blues of the previous post.
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