"You just never know where you will end up!"

 The "You", in this case, is two pairs of personally worn jeans!

Back in April 2025 when I had a knee replaced, I thought having a jean skirt would be a good idea-- as putting pants on clearly might be a problem. So I altered an old pair of jeans & had to borrow from a second old pair of jeans to give the proposed skirt a gusset & flair.

The resulting garment was perfectly dreadful. So, for reasons of curiosity, I started dismembering the two wrecked jeans. I mean really taking everything apart. I even excised the rivets.

There was a stage where amazing shapes started to appear on my work wall. Not only that but I had discovered many things about jean construction & technology that was remarkable to me. And of course I got into all that wondering about where the cotton was grown, where the denim weaving factory was, where the jeans were cut & who the sewers were. Endless possible questions a la Daphne!

Then came the idea for a quilt. An unseamly, unseemly quilt!

a detail

I started quilting it up & I got just so far. It was tough work & hard on my 85 year old hands.

In May I picked it up again to consider what I would do with it. It had lain fallow for 4 months. So was I going to throw it out as I had done with the previous unsuccessful quilt-making project? As I was considering this question one night in bed, I had an inspiration to write the story of the project onto the surface of the quilt. So up I got, in the wee morning hours & wrote.

 The writing was done on the vertical, but I had to write on the horizontal.

So in the end....

And then I had to write out the story, so here it is:

Funny enough, I still don't know if I'll throw this ugly thing away.

So two questions are hung up on this quilt # 429.

That's it for now.