I did this pattern with a friend as her first quilt.
http://apassionatequilter.blogspot.c...al-part-i.html Here are pics of the process:
http://imgur.com/a/wVtZL no batting, just fabric and jeans, she says it's plenty heavy and warm. I've thought about doing one myself, I'd totally using flannel for the square part. Squares in this one were a charm pack, we drew 7.25 inch circles onto jeans with ink pens on the wrong side and cut them out, using a fiskars circle template I had in my paper crafting stash.