I tried my hand at this nifty little project about a year ago and the results are so much fun! Jeans to a skirt, baby! Do you have an old pair of jeans that you just don't like anymore, but they fit? Try recycling them into something totally different. This isn't really going to be a tutorial because I didn't take near enough pictures to walk you through the steps. This is more of a before, during and after pic. Sometime in the future maybe I will try a tutorial, I've never done that!
This is a skirt I made for my friend, C. She delivered two pair of jeans to me. One for her and one for me to make myself a skirt!! Yay! I still haven't gotten to that project, but what else is new??? lol
So take a peek and see how the before turned into the after. I hope to someday post some pics of little girl skirts from my girl's "tore up knee" jeans. The embroidery is just to cute to just throw them away! Enjoy!
Regular 'ole jeans just waiting to be transformed
Use a seam ripper to rip out the inseam. You actually end up ripping further up toward the zipper so the denim will lie flat.
Ta-Da! Cute skirt! I use the lower section of the pant leg to make the insert so you use a lot of the denim from the jeans. Not a huge amount of waste. This part always seems to be the most troublesome for me. Not being a clothing seamstress I have to take more time to make this right. There is a lot of adjusting the insert when on the model to make it hang just right.
I like leaving the skirts with a raw edge so they fray when washed. Just a fun detail!
1 comment:
Oh my gosh Trina, I used to totally do that in high school. Old jeans also make REALLY cute purses. You just lob off the legs and put a seam in the bottom and then use some fabric from the jeans to make a strap or two if you want. I'd embroider on mine too and they turned out AWESOME. Try that sometime. The skirt is fabulous!
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