recycled quilt

i use everything fabric in my quilts. my neighbor tossed a giant bag of used painting clothes on the sidewalk last summer. i brought the whole bag up here and boxed it up for "later." I loved the textures of the paint. but had no sewing skills and did not want to mess up the fabric. this is a blog about how I used the heavy sweaters, and sweat-material as batting. here are a few pics... i just cut up the material at the seams and lay one piece in at a time. i dont pin my quilts to quilt them. i HATE pins. its easy to lay in some thick fabric - sew over it - then lay in more.. repeat, repeat. after putting the layer of "batting" inside the quilt - flop the top back over and quilt away. with enough stitching - or tight enough channeled quilting those inside pieces are not going anywhere. i sometimes use scraps as batting also - i dont worry about making a flat inside because i like lumpy quilts. i dont try to have a perfect coverage either. i jus...

ive made some nasty quilts. i feel like im ready to sew a new quilt right over the old ones that suck. i want to just make new tops and cut off old bindings and sew the new tops on and put on new bindings. my quilts will end up like dig sites in the future. or, the thing that never will dry and molds. if i quilted a new top over an already made quilt that would be a heavy ass quilt! i love heavy quilts. i started a jeans quilt tonight -- but, its not boring because the jeans are all jeans that a painter tossed out. so, they have all this paint stuck on everywhere. pretty cool looking. maybe ive got a new front for this ugly ass quilt! i made this b-4 i ever heard of the gees bend quilters, it was one of the first quilts i ever made.

jeans quilt. i dont have a "design wall." i live in a micro (250sf) condo with my two dogs. i dont have a design wall... but, i do have bunk beds! i toss fabrics on the top bunk till they look nice in a pile - then, rip up the fabrics and sew them back together. thats all anyone needs - a few feet of space to toss fabric together. if it looks like it will work - rip it up and sew it together! its not expensive to fail - used fabric is cheap! even an ugly bit of quilting looks good on the back of a quilt, right? too many anal people are in the quilt work and teaching. dont buy their crap about "only sewing with quilting cotton" and 1/4 inch seams! its all bull. that quilt is 100% recycled fabric. its jeans and corduroy - its heavy. it was thick enough that i decided not to put a batting on the inside. besides, i like having 4-5 blankets on my bed at one time and this blanket never ended up on my bed - i tossed it over a pile of junk i did not want anyone to s...