I will start off this post with a little true story from when we were still living in Fort Mac.
Picture this…you have driven from Fort McMurray to Edmonton for a Costco trip. You do your shopping and are at the car unloading the items into your car. You have to grab a heavy item that they stuck in the bottom of the cart. What do you do? You squat of course and then you hear the sound of fabric tearing….. pppssstttt. You guessed it, you ripped a hole in the jeans you are wearing, the only pair of pants you have with you, right in the groin area. You clamp your legs shut and attempt to waddle to the car and carefully get in leaving the rest of the unloading of items to your laughing husband. Instead of stopping at one of the hwy 63 rest stops, you find a remote side road to take a bathroom break so that no one will see your butt hanging out of your pants.
The upside to the story is, that this incident prompted me to start looking up ways to use jeans in crafts or projects instead of just throwing those torn jeans into the trash. I have a box of jeans separated into seams, pockets and legs as I have projects in mind for different parts of the jeans.
I already posted my Easter wreath made with jean strips and burlap. I did feel like that that wreath was missing some adornments. I decided to see if I could make something else with the jean material to go on a wreath.
I thought a flower would be nice considering that my next wreath is going to be for summer.
Take one side of one pant leg and cut a 3” strip the length of the leg.
Fold the length to make it a 1.5” wide strip and hot glue the edges closed.
Make sure to just glue the very edge.
Cut 1/2” slits into the strip on the folded side making sure not to cut all the way through.
Starting at one end, roll tightly gluing the uncut end as you go.
Turn it over and you have yourself a flower.
A 32” inseam pair of jeans was used for this flower and it ended up to be almost the size of my palm.
Longer jeans would yield larger flowers.
I wonder how t-shirt material would work.
The loops may end up too floppy but I would like to try it.
When I make my wreath for summer, I will add a jean flower to it. I might have to make another flower to ensure the shade of jean material matches the pair I use for that wreath.