most interesting quilt question

Howdy!

Many years ago I used denim and muslin to make a quilt for my dad, in the "lap quilting" or "quilt as you go" style. I drew and traced pictures on the muslin blocks of things that he did, places he'd been, things he liked, embroidered them w/ DMC. Used a very thin poly batt (that's all that was available at the time) and backed each block w/ a denim square. Minimal quilting, by hand, of course. That sucker weighed a ton! He loved it. Mind you, he was living in way-south Tx. then, always kept the quilt on the end of their bed. I always said he lived down there because he liked to sweat. Next time I left out the poly batt. And the denim.

Ragmop/Sandy

had diff colors of denim (from light blue to dark blue to a purply burgundy), wide ricrac and slapliqued flowers in courderoy and plaid flannels on the back ... don't know that it was a pattern anywhere. It was a show and tell at a quilting bee.

I started one in flannel and just couldn't get into it so gave the pieces to someone that likes to make them.

Karen - my raggy denim (still a WIP because it's too hot to quilt denim & flannel right now) can be seen in my webshots album. I used both blue & black denim, and the backing is a mottled black/grey flannel (which you can't see in the pics). It will be bound with strips of black denim, also left raggy & tied with black crochet cotton.

I still want to make one like this:

at a museum close by there is a denim and flannel quilt made up so that each square of denim had the shape of a province here in Canada cut out. The edges were not finished, the background fabric was flannel and the outer edges were "ragged". The middle "picture" of the province was just snipped out in the shape desired in the middle of the denim square and then just sewed around the edges on top letting the raw edges fray naturally the way denim does when it isnt finished with a hem.

In other words you take a square of denim, cut out the middle bit into the shape you desire, back it with flannel and stitch around the opening leaving the raw edges exposed in each middle of the block then put it together as a regular raggy denim quilt.

Did that make ANY sense? hmm

~KK in BC~

try these for the idea that I was kinda going on about:

I've made 3 or 4, and there are photos of 2 of them here, in the "quilts" album:

-- Jo in Scotland

Haven't made one, but my quilt buddy Chris has. She used her fancy embroidery machine to do cool motifs on the denim squares reflecting the family's interests. Not all the squares, just enough of them. Some of them had pockets or other details left on. Roberta in D

"Karen, Queen of Squishies" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:n08Ag.114229$1i1.17794@attbi_s72...

I have made two types, both in flannel. The first was for my DGD and it was squares with stars in the center of the blocks. The second was square in a square in a square - I used a lot of scraps of flannel for that one. The added layers made this a very warm quilt.

Lots of denim quilts at

Here's one I made . The colored squares are actually pieces of knit shirts, not flannel, but flannel would certainly work, too. A friend of ours is the director of a Bible camp; I used a bunch of his old staff shirts for the quilt, which was sold at the camp's benefit auction.

Julia in MN

The best denim quilts I've seen were not the ragged edge ones. They were all regular pieced ones. Some had more than one color of denim, most incorporated red and white in some way (like with red bandana print material), and one had the addition of blue striped ticking material. Debra in VA See my quilts at

I saw one at the State Fair here a few years ago. Again, not raggy or raw edged, just regular piecing. It was done with lots of colors of denim with a lot of different patchwork trees, and such. Then some appliqué of animals like moose and such. Was a really neat quilt.

Pati, > >

I made one that was like a castle for my son. It is here

Love the mosaic quality of the quilt. Linda in Tx