Update denim: what to sew from old jeans

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Everyone in stock has some old denim trousers, skirts or shirts. Do not immediately send them to the trash. If you show a little imagination, things will gain new life!

Bag Case for Gadgets

From a battered denim skirt, you can make a laptop bag:

Cut the skirt along the bottom edge to fit your laptop and grind the bottom sections.
Stitch a metal zipper along the top of the waistband.
Sew a lining from a knitted fabric with a brushed / terry wrong side.
Put the lining in the bag, chop off the upper edges of the lining and bag, sew it by hand to the braid of the zipper.

Fashion skirt

A denim shirt is no longer needed, but is it a pity to throw it away?

Lay it out on a table, draw a straight line at a distance of 45 cm from the bottom edge at a right angle to the fastener bar.
Cut along the drawn line.
Using a sewing machine, pick up the top cut (4 mm stitch width) to fit your thighs.
Stitch an elastic band (corresponding to the circumference of your waist) into the ring and stitch it to the upper cut of the skirt.

Hair hoop

Cut strips of approx. Approx. 80 cm
Weave them into a pigtail.
Lock the ends of the braids with a pair of stitches.
Length of elastic tape approx. Stitch 13 cm to the ends of the pigtails to form a ring.

Mini handbag

Cut back patch pockets from jeans with cuts of approx. 2 cm and grind face to face.
Install the blocks and the handle-strap, making it from strips with sewing stepping seams and chains.
Stitch the zipper along the top edges.

The handbag is ready!

Patchwork dress

For a patchwork dress, tear the old denim into stripes of approx. 7 cm
Sew the strips to a width of approx. 1 cm so that two rectangular parts with dimensions of approx. 54 x 75 cm.
Stitch the parts along the side sections, leaving a section of approx. 40 cm
Stitch the zipper along open sections.
Along the top edge and just below the waist line, stitch along a piece of rep for the backstage.
In the wings drawstring elastic.