An almost free quilt

I made this quilt for my son when he went off to university. All it cost was the price of the wadding, and a tin of indigo dye.


I tie-dyed some white cotton I had in my stash with the indigo dye, and it was great trying out different patterns, using pegs, rubber bands and marbles. I made the quilt top by alternating the tie-dyed squares with soft denim cut from an old very full skirt I had, then layered the top with wadding, backed with a cotton sheet. I used a wide binding of some navy fabric I had left over from another project. It was machine quilted very simply, with diagonal lines of stitching through each square.


The quilt has had loads of use and is still a favourite, I'm told :-)