OS way of using old jeans?

Pink.

Hi hollyh,

This older thread might give you some more ideas:

OS way of using old jeans?

I'll merge your thread with that one later to keep all the suggestions together.

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kazmeister

you've now got designer jeans

Penelope_Penguin

floyd wrote: »

My Nanna used to make peg bags and 'dapper bags' think this is a regional name, its basically a drawstring bag to put your kids gym kit in for school. I still have one that my Nanna made 20+ years ago, I keep my spuds in it under the stairs!

That'll be *dap bags* - daps is West Country word for pumps/plimsoles/etc

Great idea for a drawstring bag for potatoes. When DH digs them he wraps them tightly in a plastic carrier, then hides them for me to find and deal with later :eek:

Penny. x

Hapless_2

good old dap bags ..hee-hee.

I either use the denim to make a rag rug or cut them for patches for OH work jeans.

odds-n-sods

My sister makes little purses out of the pockets and beads a design on them. When my neice was little ( and my cousins daughters, too) they loved them.

sandieb

Use part of one of the legs to make a carrier bag holder. Basically a cylindrical shape with elasticated top and bottom. I hang mine in the larder and it controls all those wayward accumulated plastic carrier bags - I just push them in at the top and they are dispensed from the bottom.

Of course if you make your green shopping bag, you won't have any plastic carrier bags!

Calephetos

I mend our jeans...but then, I can never find nice ones to buy to replace them! If they aren't too badly torn, mending isn't too hard, but if they're really, really gone, then it might be a bit much to bother with.

I'm currently making some old ratty ones into an apron. Hard-wearing, etc. I'd go for shopping bags too. Easy enough if you have a machine, but you might need a leather needle for your machine if the denim is really sturdy.

This is reminding me that I've got to get back to making the apron - it's been sitting in my basket of Things To Do for four months! :eek:

Hardup_Hester

I make bags, by cutting the legs off & sewing across the bottom, I use the legs to make the strap, or I make draught excluders, use 1 leg, fill with stuffing, I use cut up tights or teashirts, sew both the raw ends closed. I have also made quilts with jeans, cut into squares & sewn together, I've done a couple backed with an old blankek, the make great car/picnic rugs, very hard wearing. Or cut the bottom couple of inches of each leg & gather the raw edge to make denim roses.
Hester

rosieben

I found these websites recently, dont know if they are any use?

http://jas.familyfun.go.com/arts-and-crafts?page=CraftDisplay&craftid=10027
http://www.craftbits.com/viewProject.do?projectID=835

chika

Making bags uis a good idea or if not why not turn them into a skirt. I made one of these a few years ago, swen by hand and its still going strong. I wore it to the clothes show last year and had a magazing take a picture of me and ask where I got it from!

These also look great if you use another fabric for the V bit, see this website for inspiration!

http://www.savvyseams.com/clothing/jeanskirt.php