The ladies from my church made several jean quilts to give to MCC for them to pass out anywhere needed around the world. We asked a local thrift shop to save any jeans they got donated to them that weren't sellable. They gave us huge garbage bags full of them! (We finally had to tell them ENOUGH!) We had several nights where we cut them up. Some "deconstructed" the jeans. They passed them to the marking group, who marked them using 5" square cardboard templates. The next group cut the fabric into squares. Later about 6 of us got together for a sewing day. We had 2 sewing machines going. Two people at each machine, one sewing and one handing pieces to her. Then we had one on the iron and one runner. When sewing the long strips of blocks together we offset the seams by 1/2 block so we did not have to line everything up as we sewed and eliminated some of the bulk at the seams. We found it worked best to use a thin batting to help absorb the seams. We did not try quilting them. Had an evening when we got together and tied them. We made them twin size and they were pretty heavy. Hopefully they are now keeping someone in a faraway land toasty warm on a cold night.