Want to learn Quilting -- Here's some guidance

I have been making quilts for a very long time now.  When I first decided that I wanted to learn how to quilt I decided that I was going to teach myself.  So I decided to try to create a simple quilt made out of old jeans.  I designed my own pattern and decided to give it a go.  This particular quilt did not cost me a cent to create as I had a lot of old jeans hanging around my home and had some old sheets and blankets that could be used for backing.

This is a very simple quilt to make and is a great starter quilt for any beginner.  First of all cut up some old jeans so that all you have are the legs from the jeans.  Then you would create a template (I chose 5 inch squares) made out of cardboard.  Then I placed the template on the cut up jean material and cut out my 5 inch squares.  Then I chose different colors and started matching them up and stitching them into rows.  When the rows were stitched together I then stitched five rows together.  Five rows, 10 times over then the front was complete.

Because the jean material is so heavy I decided not to use quilting batten in the quilt and just measure up an old quilt for the backing.  Then stitched up the backing to the front and had my first homemade jean quilt.  Easy as pie.  These were free for me to make and I was able to start to learn the basics of quilting.

This is a very simple quilt to make for any beginner and later on I will discuss how to make a more advanced quilt.