Saturday 12 April 2014

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...

3 comments:

Tinkertaylor said...

Wow that's fantastic you would never guess that it started off as 4 pairs of jeans!

Linda said...

It looks gorgeous Tash! Love the colours and the effect of the different shades of denim! Well done!!!

Sid said...

Brilliant take on the quilt design...... looks fab too !