Cutting Used Jeans for a Rag Denim Quilt

Video Transcript

"If you are using jeans as opposed to fabric that you purchased in the fabric store, you'll need to cut the jeans apart and cut away the pieces we could not use. Such as the seams and the pockets and the zipper and that sort of thing. Lind's starting a the hem of the jeans and she is going to come all the way up the side seam of the jeans and will cut right through the waist band. Which can be tough. Be sure that you are watching for the grommets. Jeans have lots of metal grommets and you don't want to ruin your scissors by cutting those. Now, you cut as close to the seam as possible so you are preserving every bit of fabric that you can. Now, Linda is going to cut off the pocket portion of the these jeans. So we have one piece of the pant leg, actually this is the back of the pant leg and right now what Linda is going to do is straighten the edge of this pant leg out. It is very very important to get it to ravel properly to be able, to be cutting these bricks on grain. If you look at the wrong side of the jeans, which we're on right now, you'll see that you can see the grain line much easier. You will see that cutting jeans for this project is much more time consuming than cutting fabric that you buy by the yard from the fabric store but, if you would like to use up some old clothes and actually have them in a quilt, it also can be a memorable occasion cause you can point out, you know, clothes that you have had in pieces of a quilt. So, thats always fun to have too. So, shes cutting the strips in four inch strips as we did before. And from that point she will proceed just as exactly how we did with the, by the yard fabric that we purchased at the store."