Just when I think I'm done!: Denim Art

From Old Jeans

Many of us wear jeans as for our daily routine as it is the most comfortable and protective outfit. But what if after it become old fashioned or scratched!! we put that jeans in that place of our wardrob that we never gone wear any ofit's item or may be give the jeans to maid or someone else . Now i'm gonna show you how denims can be used as different ways in our daily routine so it never get wasted!!!

here are some items (some with tutorials) that can be made from old jeans..

1> Recycled Denim Beaded Bracelet:

what you need?

· Leg of old blue jeans, any size

· Sewing needle

· Barrel clasp

· .5mm stretchable bead & jewelry cord

· Colorful seed beads

· Hot glue gun

· Scissors

What you do:

1. You will need the actual seam of the blue jeans for this bracelet. Trim to about 1/4" along both sides of the seam. Cut seam to fit wrist, keep it a little loose, like a bangle and remember to account for the clasp.

2. Pull threads along the edges of the seam to fray the denim.

3. Thread a sewing needle with jewelry cord. From the back of the denim, run the needle in and up through the center where your clasp will go. Run the needle and cord through the loop in the clasp and sew several times, tie off. Secure clasp with a little hot glue. Repeat for the other end of the denim.

4. Thread needle through the back of the denim and pull taught. Thread 6-8 seed beads onto the needle and slide down the jewelry cord until the touch the denim. Lay the cord and beads down on the denim to gauge where to insert the needle and run the cord through to the back. Run in back up through to the front side about half an inch from where the last set ended, repeat the beading as in the first set. Continue this until you have as many beads as you like. Tie off and secure end with a little hot glue.

2>Denim Rug Instructions:

1. Cut a piece of heavy-duty denim fabric for the backing, to the desired size, and finish the edges with bias tape. (Grandma's method was to reuse the legs of jeans, sewing pieces of fabric together, then cutting to whatever size or shape was required.)

2. Mark the backing fabric with dressmaker's pencil or something similar. Start at the outside edge and draw lines one inch apart. In the sample shown, the lines were drawn in decreasing rectangles, but straight lines would work too.

3. Cut lots and lots of 2 by 3 inch rectangles of thin denim.

4. Starting in the center of

the denim fabric, and working outwards, begin sewing the fabric rectangles to the backing fabric. Sew straight through the middle of the rectangle width, so both sides stick up evenly, gathering the fabric either before you stick the fabric under the presser foot, or bunching it up as you sew.

5. When you have completed one line, or gone around one marked rectangle, sew it down again to secure it.

6. For the last rounds, cut the rectangles in half along the length, to make rectangles that are 1½ inches by 2 inches, and sew along the edge of the backing fabric, so that the last row lies flat.