Originally Posted by
Tartan
If you want a heavy quilt, try cutting up old blue jeans for the top. There is a video on the net on how to cut denim circles, place squares of batt and flannel in the center of the circles and fold in the circles edges to form fake cathedral window effect.
I made this type of quilt with the denim circles and can give you the scoop on it:
The denim is very heavy. I wanted a queen size quilt, but ended up with a much smaller quilt because of the weight. In the end, even though the quilt was heavy, I didn't find it very warm (and I get warm easily). What I did find, however, was that it was so heavy, it was hard to move under it. I didn't use any batting in the circles.
The bigger the quilt gets the harder it is to sew together, you will kill your shoulders and arms and need lots of lineament and pain killers by the time you are through (or at least I did)
Make sure you have a lot of either leather or denim sewing needles before you start, because you will break many of them before you are finished
Would I ever make one of these again? Probably not, at least not a circle one for the fake cathedral window quilt, although it is a great looking quilt. I may try one with using squares, because it would only need straight seams, as apposed to the curved sewing around the circles to hold it down.