FIELD OF JEANS Improv

1-Day 6hrs / All Levels / SUSTAINABLE QUILTING

If you make it they will come... and lounge on it. Piece together a dream-worthy park blanket from denim for your next family outing. Gather the worn-out, outgrown jeans, preferably a pair from every family member, or ask your friends to donate. In this workshop we will incorporate lighter weight clothing or stash fabrics to create sashing between denim pieces.

Learn basic ruler-free piecing including simple improv curves. Focusing on the design principle of fragmented space, learn composition strategies for improvising alternative grids while maintaining the architecture of the pant leg.

Skills & Techniques

Denim/Jean deconstruction
Basic ruler free piecing technique
Simple improv curve piecing
Darting on and across the seam when patchwork bubbles
Order of sewing / composition engineering
How to utilize skinny sashing and filler to equalize different size squares or sections
Color substitutions and shifts

Materials

Source from the people in your life and from your own clothing to make the experience more meaningful. Or source shirts and auxiliary materials that excite your aesthetic and imagination from the thrift store.

Denim jeans, or other rugged pants
Lighter weight fabric from clothing and/or quilt stash for sashing and filler*Quilt stash scraps for filler and sashing
It’s improv! You will learn something no matter what materials you decide to work with. Come with a make-do attitude and it will all work out in the end!