What a timely video!!! I just offered to make a memory quilt for a sweet family. She brought me her daddy’s jeans….I pray her quilt turns out like yours!
I have a whole tote full of cut up jeans and now you have given me the solution to the problem I have had with my prior jean quilts: bulk! Thank you, thank you, thank you!! I am so glad that I have found your channel. You have been such a blessing in my sewing. You bring a calmness along with your tips that I have needed very much. I will use your tips on wider seams and pressing them open. It's probably silly of me but I gave myself a pat on the back when you quilted your project the way I thought might be a good way to keep seams down as I watched you press! See, I am catching on!!
I love the charm of the offset seams. And it makes it go through the machine so much easier. Win win! I think I will make my friend one of these will PUL fabric in the back to put under the car seat. No more crumbs and the PUL will help w milk amd juice spills. :)
Thank you so much for this tutorial. I was going to make a denim Raggy quilt for my favorite doctor that just retired. But now I realize that would probably be a nightmare, and I’m going to do it like yours. Very easy to follow! Thanks again.
Another wonderful video. Thanks Beth. You take the stress out of sewing. Making it the relaxing time it ought to be, not worrying about whether or not I’ve done things properly, according to other RU-vidrs. Thanks for your calmness. Xx
Great project for a car seat cover. It would be easy to shake out crumbs or wash out dog hair or muddy paw prints. You could put a 3”x6” block (just slice 6x6 blocks in half) at one end of each row, then alternate rows starting with a half block or starting with a whole block. That’s not much extra math.
This is a great idea, never thought to make a car seat cover, my husband passed away in May, I think I'll combine his favorite pair of jeans, and his favorite T-shirt, and make a car seat cover, I think he would like that a lot, you come up with such great idea's, thank you for that!
I made a quilt years ago using denim from my dads old overalls , husbands worn out jeans, and their old flannel shirts I had made for them. The flannel was the heavy kind that looks like wool. Dad and husband are both gone now, and that quilt has a spot on the back of my couch. I backed it with a piece of berber fleece and it is a favorite of my girls and my grandchildren. I have a 20 gallon tote full of cut up denim and I'm going to make another quilt that is just the denim. There are so many shades of blues and black, and I think it will be an interesting quilt. If you sew a full 5/8 inch seam with tight stitches and leave the seams on top, they fray and make beautiful rag type quilt tops. Thank you for this video. You did a great job.
Great tip for using old jeans! However, I needed to know another way to bind a quilt! And there you were with an answer and your own brand of "Zen" quilting!! Love you Miss Beth! Take care!
Love it! Your tutorials are all so practical & stress relieving. Quilting does not need a pattern always, just an idea to go with! Thanks, Beth for all your great ideas!!
Great use of a very durable fabric. I never thought to stagger the seams, but with heavy fabric, I think it’s genius and may make the seams last longer without the friction on each other. Great video 🤗
I love your jean quilt! The only quilts I’ve ever fished were made out of family members old jeans. I made them for our kids cars, to keep in their trunks to always have something to sit on or use to put on the ground if they ever had car troubles, or to sit on for football games. Or to use for their pet beds. I put thinner blankets as the liner and I used flannel sheets that I no longer used fir our bed as the backing. I tied them to keep all the layers together. I like how you quilted yours and your binding. It’s time for me to make some again! Thank you for all your inspiration! I love your no nonsense way of quilting! It tells me that I CAN do it! That’s the way I want to quilt! ❤️💕 I love your videos, thank you!
Great tutorial, Beth! I sense picnic quilts and trunk quilts (for car emergencies in the winter) will be made for my family members. Love the trick on connecting the binding tails, too. I had not seen that triangle fold method before. Thank you!
I’m so glad you said you’re not all about “perfection” in your sewing room. Your quilts are always so beautiful. That gives me hope. And I recently ran across your channel and just love it….your quiet, calm voice, nice music….watching these is like therapy to me. Thank you. 🙏🏼
I really like the way you quilt. I hear so many people say "it's not perfect." Our imperfections to our everything we sew ect make our creations unique to each of us.
Great idea for a durable seat cover. Thanks for showing how you bind. The way you sew the ends is different than I have seen anywhere else. It is genius and sew much easier. Thanks a bunch for the great ideas and tips and tricks!
What a wealth of super-useful information and inspiration, too! Please, did you say that you sewed the seam at 3/8 vs. 1/4? Spacing; thread size or weight, and was the bobbin thread size identical? I applaud the staggering of the rows, then reinforcing with a top stitch on both sides to assure they are open. Adds to the design,, too, especially in managing the seams plus more eye appeal. Excellent ironing advice at every step.
My mom made a really big denim quilt for my oldest nephew who at the time was living at a homeless shelter and he loved it and someone stole it from him he was so upset. never found it
That is so bad. Quilts mean a lot, especially when you don't have a place to live. All things are so important to you, especially from a family member. God Bless all.
Sad to hear about someone losing a special quilt. It is amazing how special and loved people feel when they get one. 🙂 makes me want to sew and giveaway today!
Someone left a black trash bag on my porch FULL of jeans!! No name or clue as to who??? This became hot pads using the denim as backing for kitchen fabric and Insulite for heat protection. Also placemats using one denim and one kitchen fabric alternatively. Also wooden picnic tablecloth when camping. And, of quilts using denim on top and flannel on the back. Use generous one inch seam allowance and them snip the overage fabric all around for a warm and whimsical quilt. Also an over the front seat hanging open in the back to store toys for the little ones to play with.
I love the way you do your binding! I struggle with the binding no matter how many quilts I do! I always end up with a big blob where the two ends meet... Your way looks fabulous and easy
I was wondering if I should use a fusible backing to the denim top to protect against fraying . I see that you didn’t do that and your result looks fine. I also wondered what it would be like if I used fleece or a lightweight batting. Your thoughts? My plan is to repurpose jeans that I bought at a local thrift shop to make a small quilt to be used by my dogs.
Beth, I have a request: I really want to make a weighted blanket, with weights that can be removed so the blanket can be laundered. Denim patches would be good for this, because it needs to be strong. I'm thinking the weights could be as simple as ziploc bags full of sand, and they would slip inside of pockets all over the quilt. Like each square would be the size of the squares in the quilt in this video, but each would also be a pocket. But I'm having trouble designing pockets that will work. They need to hold the weights in without spilling in any direction, and without added hardware like snaps or anything. I was thinking maybe something like a pillow sham overlap type deal for each pocket? But I can't figure in my head how each "pillow sham square" will attach to one another for the quilt. Can you help me please? The quilt doesn't need to be fancy at all. This is just meant to give comfort to an autistic person who finds it calming to be under a heavy blanket, while not actually wanting it to be warm. The blanket would probably work if it was the same size as this one, because it just needs to be big enough to cover the person while they sit calmly in a chair.
You can purchase plastic beads for weighted quilts. We made some for charity using them. They're supposed to be machine washable and dryable. We sewed 2 pieces of fabric together around the outside using a half inch seam, leaving one of the short sides open. Stitch starting 1-inch from the top and 4 to 5 inches from the sides to make channels from the top to the bottom. Use a cardboard tube that comes in paper towels to help direct the beads into the channels using an eighth to a quarter cup of the beads into each of the channels. Shake the beads into the bottom and sew from side to side to make squares of stitching to equal the width of the channels. Repeat this until you get almost to the top. Fold over the top about a half inch, then fold it over again and stitch it closed. I hope this helps.
@@judithburke1539 Thank you kindly. It is a good set of instructions. But I'm really hoping for a different design using pockets and removeable weights, because I don't want to put that much weight through my washer/dryer. Besides, I did once make a weighted blanket using this "channel" method, and I found it very awkward to increase the size of the blanket past a certain size. It became too heavy and unwieldy to wrestle through the sewing machine any more. Removeable weights would work better, I think.
@@bethshibleyquilts Thank you so much! I was trying to work it out last night with paper models but I'm not sure I'm making sense. In any case, I thank you for your idea of offsetting the seams in this quilt. I'll try to use that to help minimize bulk in my eventual quilt.
Here’s an idea: make rows of the overlapped pockets (overlap like the back of a pillow, as you suggested, across each row). Sew the rows of the overlapped pockets together to make one large piece (front or back, as you desire). Then either piece the other side or have one piece of fabric. Now put wrong sides together, and sew/quilt a grid around your pockets. Bind and insert your weights. Second idea: Similarly, you could put Velcro closures on each pocket. If you use pellets instead of sand, you could make little “pillow” bags, to hold the weights, out of something less slippery than ziplock bags. Then they would be less likely to slide out of the pockets. Hope these ideas inspire you! 😃
The wool is nice to press on and the ironing board seems the most logical place to use it.👌😉 I use it mostly for quilting blocks....but it worked here too.
@@bethshibleyquilts thanks for the info. I do have a wool mat but only used it on a table top with towels under and the small quilt iron. Did not do the job well. I will try your way. PS going to try making your Christmas quilt too. 😻😻
On most domestic machines, it would struggle a bit to sew through denim and batting. You would need to use a denim needle and some pretty thick thread which would also mean adjusting your tension. And sewing slowly. If you have an older machine, it might be easier. My dad used to use an old converted treadle machine to sew his leather chaps for riding. As long as he used the right thread that machine would go through 3 layers of leather. I would do a couple test pieces and see how your machine does.
Also the batting would probably make it to heavy for most home washing machines. You might need to take it to the laundry mat and use the industrial machines to wash it. But depending on town you use it, it might only need to be washed a couple times a year.
@@bethshibleyquilts I made a faux denim quilt using denim-printed decorator fabric, to use as a beach quilt at the lake. Used floral wine-colored flannel for the back and a low-loft polyester batt. I tied the quilt with the perle cotton that unwinds from those little balls. We would spread it out denim print side down, and the warm flannel felt so good when you got out of the cold lake water. Had no problem washing it in a regular machine, I'm thinking it was about 72x80.
Here's an idea. You could glue baste batting squares that are a generous 1/2" shorter (1/4" all around) to your denim. Then when you sew them together, you will not be catch the batting in the seam allowance. Typically denim is sewn with a denim/jeans needle and heavier thread. Paula Doyle has an interesting ravioli method which makes charming and rustic quilts that have exposed seams. You can easily find it on you tube if you have an interest.
