My Rag Quilt!

I've been working on this quilt FOREVER! We have been saving our jeans as long as we've been married, in Ron's request that I make a Levi Quilt.  I started cutting up the jeans into squares a couple summers ago, it was a random hit and miss project for a while.  I finally got enough squares cut and a little spending money to finally get some fabric to go with it...of course it was John Deere!

Here's all the squares cut and ready to go!

(I did my squares 7 inches and the felt for the middle 6 inches...next time I might so the felt a little smaller.)

Then sandwich them together

Sew an X from corner to corner to keep them together...

 Anxiously await for kids to go to bed...

 so you can lay the pieces out on the floor to make your pattern.

Stack each row up IN ORDER and number them!! 

Start with row #1 and sew the squares together to make a row.

(What you want as the TOP needs to be facing OUT so the seems will be on top!)

 Continue until each row has been sewn.

Start with rows #1 and #2 sew them together, matching up the seems on the inside. Again your top pieces need to be on the outside.

Keep going until the rows are sewn together.

And your quilt is all pieced together!!

For the final step snip each seam. Oh and sew around the edges so you can snip them as well.

(I haven't done this yet.  I decided I better spend some time working on my house...pictures will come as soon as its done!)

But for now the "final" project: 

Up next:

MATCHING PILLOW CASES!!

 Hopefully I can find the same material!!!