How’s this for some January blue sewing? I processed a ginormous pile of jeans a couple of years ago into bags of different sized strips so they were ready to make into quilt tops. And they sat in my studio closet until the great pack-up. I decided to bring them to the apartment because it seemed like relaxing sewing, plus an old project that could get finished up. These are strips being sewn end-to-end in a giant chain piecing stream.
I got top #1 made this week from those strips. It will be a donation quilt & since my quilting partner got a long-arm for her December birthday & needs practice quilts, I got some backing & batting & will let her do the quilting rather than send in the top & let other volunteers do the quilting. So wins all around! (Evening in the apt for photo shoot so the colors are muted-there’s much more blue like in the first shot!)
This is what’s left after making the first top. How many quilts do you think I can make from these strips???
Have a great week, fellow scrappy sewers!
Love, love, LOVE your idea for January’s BLUE sewing, Sue!!! I’ve got a TON of jeans set aside for a new (larger) quilt for DS1, but he’s not ready for it yet. I’ll have to remember this when he is ready to have his quilt made!
Great idea up cycling all those jeans. Fantastic gift for Christmas, so the quilting part is taken care of as well. Enjoy your weekend.
What boy wouldn’t love a blue Jean quilt! Or a girl too, of course. Such a great idea to use up those strips.
What a great idea to recycle jeans for the blue challenge month. By varying the value in the strips you picked up to sew end to end, you created a very aesthetically pleasing flimsy, too.