I love an upcycled project. and wearables ones are the best. Back in late August my son decided that he was getting rid of a couple of pairs of jeans. Before he threw them in the bin, I rescued them and examined the quality of the denim. The button area on the waistbands had gone and the zips were damaged. but all in all the fabric was in decent condition.
I carefully unpicked and took them apart. I intended to reuse as much of the fabric as I could. One of the waistbands was long enough for me to use of I cut away the damaged section. I reused the pockets and the belt loops.
The legs were disassembled from the inside, leaving the outer seams in tact. I used these leg sections to cut the front and back legs from.
I had to piece fabric to have enough for some of the smaller sections -such as the yoke and I added length to the legs in the same manner.
The denim was a stretch fabric and perfect quality for the Ginger Jeans from Closet Core Patterns. Having made these a few times before The construction was very quick and I did all the top stitching in regular thread, which meant no swapping of machines or thread on this one.
The pocket bags are made from some Superman fabric that my hubby had for a project earlier in the year. I know the photos aren't great. The light wasn't good when I was taking them and my phone is old!!!!
These have already been worn several times and I have made a small win in the zero waste fashion stakes. Everything used was from my stash or was off cuts. I needed new jeans and here we are.
What a great save! I love how in the close-up photo you can see the colour variation of the different parts of fabric you've used. I feel like it looks really designer, given the way that pre-aged or damaged denim is fashionable, but it's also a really cool take on that.
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