Over these last few months (and excluding Christmas, of course), I've been working on a project to reuse all our old jeans/denim material. In the spirit of reducing the items our household throws away each day, I decided to use some of our old jeans to make our labrador, Millie, a blanket which we can throw over any surface for her to lay on.
So I cut up the jeans - keeping the zips because you never know when they might come in useful - and made a quilt which will almost cover a twin-sized bed. I used a very, very old duvet cover for the backing which has been sitting in my linen cupboard, unused, for years. There's no batting inserted, or any actual quilting, and the binding was completely machine stitched on.
The denim is 100% cotton, and the backing is a 50% polyester/50% cotton material, but that won't matter as this quilt will not shrink because there's no new fabric in it. Everything's already been laundered many times over.
The top took me quite a while, but the backing and the binding took no time at all - not even 2 hours to cut and press the binding, pin the backing to the top, and sew on the binding strip.
Now I'm off to search the Internet to find other ideas for using old denim.
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