Thread: Denim rag quilt
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Old 01-17-2019, 12:54 PM
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I love your quilt Queenbarbie!
It will work just fine. I've made 2 of these. The first one with flannel on one side, the 2nd with quilting cotton.
And, of course one was the first quilt I ever tried making, so I made it Huge.
This is what I learned:
1. It's heavy. Without batting...it's heavy. And flannel is heavier than cotton.

2. Use 1/2 inch seams. 1/4 inch seams are way too small to get a good fringed edge around the blocks.

3. Hand quilting denim is not easy on the fingers. I hand quilted a flower shape inside each square on the first quilt instead of just an 'x' because I was intending to put a cute button in some or all of the centers, and I had never tried quilting by machine yet. But...remember I said it was heavy? I decided I shouldn't add anymore weight. So...no buttons. But it would have been cute.

On the second one, I used blue, red, black and green denim squares, and I substituded a few of the plain denim squares with back pockets cut from the jeans. Just for fun. Then, I just had to sew a bandera hankie in a couple of those.
Have fun with yours Nativetexan.

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