Rerun

Last year I had a post on making a quilt—putting it together.

I had hoped to repost the series, and I may find pieces that I can reuse, but it looks as if I'll have to just do a recap of the procedure.

In the top picture I am laying out denim squares that were cut from old denim jeans. I make a cardboard square by measuring 6 inches by 6 inches with a ruler, draw the perimeter of the square and cut it out.

After making several hundred denim squares, I lay the individual squares into a pattern of colors that I like. I've tried here to alternate dark and light. In the past I've had different colors of denim, but these were my choices here. I ended up with 13 rows lengthwise squares, and 18 squares up and down. (Total 234 squares)

In the second picture, after I have laid them out, I begin to pin the squares one to another and sewing into rows. The top row in the picture has eleven squares sewn together into a long strip (this will have thirteen when I'm done). Once I get all of the different strips sewn, I'll start sewing the strips into one solid 'top'.

I'm sure my photographer du jour has a picture of the quilt top BEFORE the stage across here, but I don't find it. So, this is an almost finished quilt top already in the frame. Still, the rows are all sewn together into a solid piece.

This picture shows the bottom layer of the quilt. It's on the floor flanked by the sides of our quilt frame, clamps and a roll of batting. I'll try to find the other posts to share as well.

There are three layers to a quilt: the (pieced) top, the batting (we'll go over in the next post), and the bottom piece as shown above.

Proverbs 24:13 "My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste: 14) So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off."