Jeans Quilt

While I still lived in Salt Lake I was at my parents house and went to throw something in their outside garbage can and found about 20 pairs of my dads old jeans. Are you kidding? JACK POT. I then added my husbands and my kids holy jeans and came up with quite the stash.

ANd now that I have a sewing machine I LOVE I finally got to work.

Lay out your jeans like this.

Cut just above the crotch seam. Please keep the top part for a tutorial in the making. (A darling skirt for your daughter)

Then cut the legs apart on the inside seam and lay them out flat.

You can then cut them up. You need to cut 5 inch squares or 6 inch circles. and then you need to cut 5 inch pieces of varying width. I used 123 squares and roughly 123 circles. I traced my flour cannister lid.

Keep them in three distinct piles. And make sure you iron each piece flat.

This is how many pieces I could get out of one children's size 5 pair of jeans.

Take your squares and piece them together. I pieced mine at an angle. So start with the middle row which is the longest and using one square cut it into 4th's. These four triangles will become the corners. You will then need to cut squares in half for the ends of the other rows.

Then use the 5 inch pieces of varying width and sew along the outside edge to give it a fun border.

Now for the circles. Cut a 4 inch piece of cardboard. Lay it in the middle of your circle and trace it onto the right side of the fabric.

Pin the circles together along this line.

And sew together in a row on this line.

Iron the seam open.

And then add to quilt.

It will look like this.

Then Lay down the back of the quilt onto the ground. (I used a king size sheet). Turn under the edge and lay the quilt top on top of it.

Pin along the line you drew.

Sew along the line to give your quilt a binding around the edge. Or you can finish it this way. (This is the way I did it) Lay your quilt top on the back piece so there is about 3 inches of fabric around all the edges.

Turn under the red fabric. And then under again. And then pin it to the top of the quilt. Fold the top of the quilt down on the line that you drew. This way the red is on top of the quilt, instead of the quilt top on top of the red, like the way above.

And then sew the sides. And walaa!!!

Now go through it in your washer. The edges of the circle will curl in and will start to fray. The more you wash it the better it will look! This is what it looks before washing!

And after only one wash cycle. You can really tell the difference.

There you have it. Perfect for those winter Arizona picnics and a perfect keepsake of your father's jeans. Which contain many many many great memories.