What else am I supposed to do with my old fat pants?

8 hours

6 pairs of old jeans that are now way too big

140 blocks

1 broken needle

miles of thread

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ONE AWESOME QUILT!

So this Thanksgiving I had an unscheduled day at my parents' place so I decided to bring home all my old jeans that are worn out on the thighs and now too big and decided to make them into a quilt. I've been saving old jeans for a while now, so I had six pairs to work with. I mean, the denim is fine apart from the thighs where I have worn holes through from friction (haha) and it seemed a waste to just throw them out. Anyway, I brought them home and took over an hour cutting them into as many six inch squares as I could squeeze out of a pair as I could. My mother sews a lot so thankfully she had a roatary cutter and whatnot which made the process a lot easier and faster. Also, I had this to look at while I worked...

Hard to not enjoy even the most tedious task when you have a sunset over the atlantic ocean to watch. Anyway, ages later I had 140 blocks cut. I was surprised that was all I got out of six pairs of size 24 jeans but I avoided the bits with seams and what not because it would be too thick to sew through. The solid blocks look a lot tidier as well. Anyway, six pairs of jeans = 140 blocks, and a GIANT pile of scraps...

Looking at my pile of blocks I noticed that there was a lot of colour differences between the different pairs of jeans I used so I thought it would be nice to make some sort of a pattern out of the colours. I actually planned it out on my computer first, trying out different colour patterns with the blocks that I had. In the end the diagonal gradient looked by far the best. So after that I had to sew all the blocks... blar. It took hours. So I laid them out on the floor in the pattern that I would be sewing them in and then started sewing each individual row. And even though it took hours sewing each row and the chair mom has at her sewing machine made my back ache like nobody's business, it was again hard to be too grumpy because I got to watch the sunset on the ocean out the window that way as well. :)

After all the rows were sewed I had to press the rows, then sew the rows together. This got kind of unwieldy pretty quickly because it was being sewn into one big unit.

In the end it was worth the hard work and it turned out great. :)

It isn't huge, but all I wanted it for was a lap quilt for my living room. I assume I will be using this quilt after my surgery when I am recovering. Help me to remember that just because I recovering from surgery and lamed up for a few weeks doesn't mean I get to eat like an idiot and put weight back on! ;)

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Hunger: quite intense actually. Really need a snack or something
Body Image: Pretty good!
General disposition: ACCOMPLISHED
Song of the day: Rudy by Supertramp