Chelle asked me some jeans quilt questions on her blog and instead of doing a novel length comment I thought I'd transfer it here and make my blog into a sort of craft-based advice column, if even for one day.
1. How many pairs of jeans did you use?
Hard to say how many pairs of jeans were used as I went crazy cutting up lots and then put a quilt together and there was a bunch left over. Rough estimate? 5 for the patches and one for borders and dividers.
It all depends though: how big do you want the quilt to be?
What size jeans are you cutting up? (Size 16 yield much more denim than 10!) How close to the seams you cut also makes a huge difference, and can I just suggest you get some really good sharp scissors before you start, because lacking scissors gave me a massive callous.
2. What kind of thread do you use - special quilting or ordinary cotton?
I used ordinary cotton for sewing the patches but quilting thread for the quilting. Oh and embroidery thread. Some of the seams I did twice though since the machine was a bit leery of mutliple layers of denim.
3. What size is the animal polar fleece you bought from spotlight the other day?
It's 115cm wide which should be plenty wide unless you're making it Queen Bed sized. I used about 1 2/3 metres for my finished quilt, that's including the binding round the edges.
Hmm sure there were more questions in my head. Oh well will let you know if I have anymore
I will wait with baited breath.
If anyone else has craft based questions for me, please comment and I will do my best ot answer them :)
Posted by jenni at June 17, 2005 01:29 PM