Hannah's quilt

This quilt was made for the first child of my college mentor, Sheli Hedlund. It's another very large one - only a few of these that we made were this large. The squares are our standard 4.5" cut size (4" finished). I think by this time we had friends saving old jeans for us - I know my grandparents (Kelbe) were giving us theirs. We experimented a bit with the pattern on this one by putting in a few double-size rectangles.

One note about this photo - we laid Hannah's quilt out over the top of our bed which was covered with the denim quilt that my grandparents had made for me that became the inspiration for all following denim quilts that Matt and I have made.

Grandpa's quilt

This was made for Matt's grandpa, Walter Glewwe, the first Christmas we lived with him (2001). We like the pocket that had a "W" embroidered on it! This one is in what became our standard size, a 10x14 grid of 4.5" (4" finished) squares. Grandpa used this one a lot to lay over his lap when he sat in his chair. We have since given it to our first-born, Owen Walter, who uses it not only as a blanket, but also to drive his cars on, the stripes on the fleece backing being roads and houses in his mind.

Machine sewn/serged in red, hand tied at every other corner, polyester batting.