The Denim Quilt -

When Mom died, I was recipient of all of the denim she had saved, some since the 70's. I had no idea what I was going to do with it. Late one Summer aftrenoon on the way to the gas station to fill up the truck, I saw a sign for an estate sale and my truck automatically pulled over to the curb. In the basement was a 1909 Singer Walking Foot Industrial sewing machine, the estate was that of a sail maker and the machine was for the canvas.

I bought the machine, table and treaddle for $20.00 and home I went. The fabric told me what it wanted done, and I did it one square, one picture at a time. The hard part was trying to figure out how the pictures were going to go together. I don't do much in a 'traditional' manner, so tieing, or quilting the layers together would have been a cop-out to me. All of the material was from Jeans, the only logical artistic continuity was to use Jean Rivets like the pocket re-enforcements on Levi's Pockets and seams.
When finished, this King Sized Quilt weighed over 30 pounds. It won the People's Choice Award at Clatsop County Fair, and was 1 of only 2 quilts made by Men featured in the PBS Special, "The Oregon Quilt".