jean repair: Recycle denim

An easy, free place, to explore and resource all things related to maintaining, renewing and re-cycling, old, worn jeans with tender loving care.

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Below are links to ways to patch, mend and re-fashion denim.

cat and mouse mending

Denim 101 – this is the essential basic method to seamlessly mend holes in the bud, just before they break open.

Sweet Pea Patches

A technique to patch with printed floral cottons and special vintage scraps. In addition to the tutorial there are several photos of variations.

Hemming jeans

Named "for your eyes only" the original cuff details camoflage the alteration.

Sharecropper patches

Neat, durable, resourceful, hand stitched denim patches

Soho-Hobo patches

Rugged, durable, rough patches

Denim slippers

Sweet pea, a little denim jacket

Valentine shorts

Super short-shorts with cotton broderie anglaise

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Friday, January 6, 2012

Recycle your jeans

Another creative option for cast off jeans - have them recycled into a pair of comfy and useful sandals ... here's the link - for the whole story.

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Like browsing through a favorite catalogue, DENIM REVOLUTION, is packed with an easy, fabulous denim wardrobe that you can make yourself from re-cycled jeans ... without the pricey designer price tags. Projects are included for clothing and accessories for casual, dressed up and cozy denim clothing and accessories. Click on the above image to order or go to your favorite online or neighborhood bookstore.

Find below some useful denim sewing links.

How to sew a flat felt seam
Fix a seperated zipper
Sublime Stitching introduces a beginner to embroidery
How to rip out a seam
Sew a jean fly front
Hand sewing basics
A good tutorial from eHow on using iron-on patches
Burda tutorial on sewing a flat felt seam
For a beginner - hand basting explanation
If you can't sew or don't have the time, go to a pro for your repairs.
Another link for denim repairs

When jeans have truly lost their luster there are many ways to recycle them. Check links below for some ideas. Ahh ... the nine lives of jeans.

Follow this lead to donate your old jeans to schools, to mend to re-distribute to needy kids
Flickr images with inventive ways to recycle denim and a great group to join
Inspiration for a Bat Mitzvah Tzedakah ... with cast-off denim
Jeans insulating homes
Craftgossip's re-cylce list
List of sources to re-cycle used clothing
Ways to re-cycle jeans into other products
DIY video to make a little bag
Denim bag tutorial from sewingbusiness
Creative list of blogger comments on how to re-cycle jeans
From Spain, in Spanish - ecomania

Do you need new jeans? Then check out these links – from vintage or used to “bread and butter” as well as those irresistible cutting edge designers that develop new shapes and textures. Buy what you love, wear it with joy and re-invent it when its time has come.

chucksvintage
buffaloexchange
discount designer denim
goodwill
the row
martin
stellamccartney
snake and dagger
wrangler
balmain
lee
chloe
reusejeans
americanapparel
levi
alabamachanin...whoops...not denim, but indigo dyed jersey and so wonderful that a link slipped in

Useful definitions: denim terminology, history, construction

denim fashion history
overalls
levi strauss & co.
indigo
jeans
denim
a-z sewing term glossary

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