The Jean Quilt: 2 years later

After carrying around my old denim from house to house all through college (and afterward!) I finally buckled down and sewed this puppy together in the months before my daughter was born. Here it is, two happy years later and it's looking well loved. Some lessons I learned with this project: 1) you can get a surprising amount of denim out of just a few pairs of jeans, 2) zig-zagging the seam allowances will add increased durability for a really functional quilt, 3) old denim makes a great park blanket!! I backed it with my husband's comforter from college. It was warm and cozy and needed a new purpose. I bound the edges with black twill bias tape, tied the whole thing together with green buttons, and stitched in the ditch in large squares.