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Fabulous quilt to honor a very special person and to gift to someone else who is special.

Awesome! Definitely a great denim quilt. Quilt some simple straight lines...would Not want to hand quilt this baby!

Great job on this quilt! I'm thinking as heavy as a denim quilt usually is I would tie it rather than quilt it, especially since there will be on batting inside.

Love your denim string quilt.

gorgeous quilt--I'm sure it will be cherished.

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Originally Posted by MargaretH (Post 7934151)

[ATTACH=CONFIG]583140[/ATTACH]This is a quilt made for our oldest grandson out of Papa's old denim jeans. He has seen it and is crazy about it.
Now to decide how to quilt it. It is pretty heavy. I will be using a midweight flannel backing and no batting. I will hopefully have it done by Christmas.
Thank you for looking.

This is amazing! Can you give us the details? Block size, strip width, seam allowance, border width, overall size of quilt. I'm sure I'm not the only one who will be making plans for the saved jeans in my stash.

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Originally Posted by Treequilter (Post 7934512)

Wow,this is the best I have seen from denim. I know he will cherish this .

My thoughts exactly! Great design, color, and the border is superb. My burning question is, how many rotary cutter blades did you go through to cut those strings???

I made this on the fly. We had seen a similar picture on pinterest. Myself strips were cut at 1, 1 1/4, 1 1/2, 1 3/4 inches. Not all strips were straight, some were odd shape. The corner triangle that makes the center is whatever size fits to finish the square.
I used a cheap sketch pad from the 99 cent store as a paper foundation. WHAT A NIGHTMARE. I had a hard time getting all the paper off.
The papers were 9 in square. I placed the white strip (purchased denim yardage) down the center of the square and added stripes along each side with 1/4 in seam allowance.
4 squares make the block. To help make it lay flatter, I used 1/2 in seam allowances and pressed open when sewing squares together. The 4 units make a 16 in square.
4 squares across and 5 squares down. The first border was cut at 2 1/4 in and sewn with 1/2 seam and pressed towards the border.
the braid border was made with pieces ( lots of pieces) cut at 1 1/2 by 4 1/2 in. It was then trimmed to 5 inches and attached with 1/2 in seams.
My finished size is 76 X 92.

Thanks to everyone for the nice comments. It was quite a task but fun to make. Will I ever nake another? Today my answer is no, lol

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Originally Posted by zozee (Post 7934910)

My thoughts exactly! Great design, color, and the border is superb. My burning question is, how many rotary cutter blades did you go through to cut those strings???

I went through 3 blades. Probably should have changed more often. I had purchased some of the cheap blades at Harbor Freight thinking that I would use them. They are junk and are now in the sharps container for the trash.

That is beautiful quilt in its own right, but even more beautiful when you consider the sentimental value of the recycled denim.