Okay...so I know I have been lazy!! I have been doing things, like this......
And I made this for my little girl!!
I made a few of these...
some of these...
And a LOT of these...
See so I did do something!! :)
Okay but for the post at hand, I wanted to share a project that begin a while ago, when my husband and I found ourselves with jeans that had so many holes in them they were near unrepairable, or had been repaired so many times, it wasn't worth it anymore. I decided to collect all the jeans in this sad state and make a jean blanket out of them!! Well, I got them cut into 9 inch squares, then they were boxed up and put away and never given a second thought. Three moves later, my husband dug them up, and that began this project....here's what I did, I hope you see it was super easy and it's already been loved by everyone!
To start I cut jeans and baby flannel into 9 inch squares.
The jeans were fun to decide if I would use a pocket, or a seam to make it more interesting!
Then I put wrong sides together....
And made rows of 8 keeping all the seams on the jean side, for fraying later...
Then I worked my way sewing each row onto the next until I ended up with this...
Sorry the kids were so excited seeing the scraps of things I had made for them in the quilt they insisted on being in the pictures. So all seams are on the back and it looks like this....
Again sorry for the crazy picture, my family thought they were hilarious!! :)
But you can see all the seams on the jean side. Then all that was left was to clip all the seams and sides of the blanket (oh I did sew around the edge of the blanket in about an inch). Now to fray the edges all it needs is a good wash and dry, however, this is a mildly heavy blanket, and I didn't want to dry it several times in my dryer just for the "look" of it. My suggestion, take it to a laundry-mat. The industrial dryers will do a great job, and it won't wear out your one at home!!
Think about it, I hope you give this a try, it is super easy and no one will ever notice if the seams aren't quite straight, they will just love it, like we love ours!!
Until next time.....
