How Do You Make A Denim Quilt?
Making a Denim Quilt You don’t need a special quilt pattern to sew a denim quilt, often called a blue jeans quilt, but denim’s heavy weight means that some quilting patterns are easier to assemble than others. Blue jeans are usually made from heavier denim, while shirts and other garments are cut and stitched from lighter weight fabrics. The lighter weight your denim, the easier it will be to work with small quilt patches. When you’re working with heavy denim, stick to simple shapes like squares or bricks, but don’t worry, because plain bricks and squares don’t have to be boring: • Use different colors of denim in the quilt to achieve a dramatic difference from patch to patch. • Use plain denim for some patches and alternate them with a denim print. • Sew with blue denim patches of different shades or patches that are faded to different levels to get a subtle variation between quilt blocks. • Think about the different ways that ceramic tile is