Scott's Jean Quilt

I have really been inspired by some great blogs on Pinterest so I thought I would write about a jean quilt that I made 10 years ago for my husband.  I had saved a lot of pairs of jeans (and I mean a lot) and my sister-in-law gave me a huge bagful of jeans that were worn out too badly to really be fixed into shorts or anything. So what I did was I drew a square on a paper for my template and I went through the jeans and cute a bunch of jean squares out. I didn't put any pockets but one on the back for the label but you could even use the pockets. I used many sizes of jeans, boys, girls, woman, men sizes.  Then when I had about 130 squares, I laid them out on the floor in the design I wanted. I went 13 down and 10 across. This fits my queen size bed but I wish I had made it a bit wider so next time I will do maybe 15 down and 13 across.  Then I sewed the squares one by one to each other in rows and then sewed the rows together so I had a nice quilt top. For the back I just used a sheet. I put a slim piece of cotton batting in between (not too much because this is a heavy quilt).  Then my grandma (who helped me sew the quilt top together and she helped me sew the quilt top, batting and sheet together) put my quilt on her quilt frames and we quilted it together.  It really turned out nice and I gave it to my husband for Christmas. I wrapped up the quilt top for Christmas and then I finished it by the end of Jan 2002. I heard somewhere that is a great idea to put labels on your quilts so when you hand them down to your kids, posterity will know who quilted it and when. Next time I make a quilt, I will take pictures step by step so I explain it better than I did in this post! But I don't know when that will be. I'm pretty busy with my kids. When I made this quilt, I only had two kids ages 7 1/2 and 3 1/2 so I had quite a bit more time on my hands than I do now!