I've been setting aside old jeans for a while (why is it that they all seem to go at once?) in the hopes that I would some day have enough to make a blanket for the back of the truck. Well, to use when sleeping in the back of the truck. One of Jaro's friends was passing through town last month and brought me four pairs of old jeans. It was time to start working on the denim camp quilt.
I started by cutting up eight pairs of jeans (four pairs of my jeans + four pairs of guys jeans... that belonged to Jaro's fairly tall friend). There were lots of holes, worn areas, dirty tattered cuffs, etc that had to be cut out, but still a surprising amount of fabric. Once I had all the problems areas cut out, I squared up the remaining pieces and started sewing them together.
I managed to salvage a few pockets and work them into the design.
I also discovered that Henrietta really likes to play with sewing.
I sewed all the fabric into strips about 82 inches long. Unfortunately, I'm a few pairs of jeans short to get the quilt as wide as I want. So... it will have to wait for a while.
