New Quilt Project

A couple of years ago we made a bunch of denim quilts to give our friends for Christmas.  I have one that my mom made and gave to me for my bridal shower, but Patrick really wanted one of his own.  I waited until the flannel all went on sale, then dragged him to the store to pick out fabric.  This is what we ended up with:


Well, I might have picked the flowery one on the bottom...

Then we headed to get our denim.  Mondays are 99 cent tag days at Savers, so we went and bought about 45 sets of denim jeans, skirts, overalls, and whatever else we could find. 

We have enough materials to make a couple of quilts, so we probably will.  I don't know if we will keep the extra one or give it away.  They are really nice to throw in the car for picnics, or to put on bleachers to soften them up.  Guess we'll see what happens!

5 comments:

Alice in Wonderland said...

When I was at Uni, I collected all kinds of kinds of denim, all the different colours of blues and made patchwork cushion covers!
I'd forgotten about that until you reminded me!
I do remember knitting squares and making a patchwork blanket...and that took me two years to finish!

Christine said...

Ooohhh, can't wait to see the finished product! I'm in the process of making my hubby a t-shirt quilt from all his old concert shirts. Told him that they can't stay in a box forever, so way not make a quilt so we could actually enjoy them! Making anything for a man is, for some reason, ten times harder!

EmmaP said...

can't wait to see the finished product!

Gayle said...

I thought you already had lots of denim! Now I feel bad because I have a whole stack of jean legs that I want to get rid of - do you want them?

Stacey said...

please post pics of it when you are done. I like the fabric with the one eyed monster LOL