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Finish It Up Friday...Wait For It, Denim/Plaid Togetherness!

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I have a finish today! I started a large denim quilt last year. It is a large scale single block design and ended up having these huge half square triangles left over!  I put all of them together and just had the center of this throw...not quite big enough.  Couldn't decide if I should give it borders or perhaps use it as part of the large quilt's backing so I threw them both into the partially finished bin and went on to other projects!  A friend has two totes full of her aunt's quilt tops and has hinted at having me finish several of them for her. That got me thinking about my own unfinished tops and so I pulled this one out to work on.  As you can see, borders won out, more denim! The other fabrics are all plaids and corduroys, kind of a manly quilt feel. I like this colorful plaid so I used it for the binding. I have several Wrangler brand jeans in the mix so for the quilting I went with the signature gold thread. Simple diagonal lines did the trick!  The b