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Thank you so much!!!

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Originally Posted by Emmie

I have a lot of old jeans and I would like to make a jean quilt. My dad is 95 and tells about jean quilts his mother made - he said they were the warmest ones ever - when he was young he slept in the bed with 5 of his brothers and they had a jean quilt that covered them - backing was jeans also - the roof had holes in it and dad said that they never got cold, even when it snowed because the jean quilt was so thick. He is asking me to make him one and I have gathered some of his old jeans as well as mine and my children's. I am an intermediate quilter - can anyone help me - I have purchased a heavy duty needle for my machine and I was planning on 5 inch squares in rows. I did not know if I was thinking of this the right way. Have never made a quilt out of such thick material.

This is a hand stitched quilt I picked up from a junk shop for 12.00, I'm doing repairs on it before I can was it. Tha gal hand stitched the whole quilt, you can see spots where she let the hems down and so it looks well worn in those spots. She used a really good muslin fabric with it, the seams on some are coming apart, but I'll get them repaired a little at a time, she signed the back & dated it 1975, I just love it and will be well worth the repair time for me. It's super heavey.

I love the pattern in that one.

That is so pretty - Is the denim cut like flying geese?

Well I took it to the gal at my local quilt shop, she was really surprised to see this pattern all hand done, she said most will not even make this star pattern with cotton fabric by machine. I have all the white muslin squares repaied but have to complete the denim yet. I think once it's washed it will be stunning.

Star pattern - hummmm - I love the variation in colors in the denim

It's really cool the way she did it, the center looks like a ligher denim and works out to darker colors. I would never be able to hand stitch something like this, I would be tossing it, it's tuff going through the denim with the needle by hand. I'm proud to own this quilt.

I was looking up star pattern variations in my quilt books and I found a wind mill pattern that I think would look good. It would highlight the variations in colors and the pieces are bigger so I can make them on my machine.

Both of these quilts are beautiful!!!
I can't wait to see which one you decide on, and to see the pics of the finished quilt!!! :D:D:D
I have a huge box full of jeans waiting to be cut up :D:D:D

Here's the link to a couple of jeans quilts I made.

http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-27975-1.htm