Recycle, re-use.....

Ooo it's the holidays and I have been busy, busy!! First off I have made a quilt! Yes another one. And the best thing of all is that it hasn't cost me a penny! It began with me buying this magazine;

It is a lovely mag, with lots of nice, modern scrappy quilts; right up my street. Inside was this one designed by Allison Harris.

Well I thought to myself, I rather like that so what do I have in my house to make it with? I know...a loft full of old jeans! The pattern called for 8" squares so I went and dug out 4 pairs of (large, bootleg) jeans. I cut them into said squares...

Next I raided my scraps for 48 different fabrics and cut out the circles....

Next they were machined on leaving a raw edge to fray with use!

Next they had to be cut into 4 pieces and mixed up.

Then I rejoined them back into circles, with each quarter now a different fabric.

Next arrange "in a pleasing manner" and join together, first in strips then all the rows.

Instead of making a quilt sandwich with wadding etc I decided to back this with fleece. This I had bought a while ago for another denim quilt and luckily it was big enough.

I decided just to quilt to the left and the right of each block seam.

Finally I bound it using leftover backing from another quilt.

There...all finished! I think this one will be for picnics! Can't wait 'til it starts to fray...