Did you know that you can make a lot of useful things from old jeans for home, children, as a gift to friends, etc. Let's see what original ideas can be brought to life with your own hands.

To each modern man such a wardrobe item as jeans is known. Looking in the closet, you will surely find a couple of denim items that are not used for their intended purpose. From them you can independently make a variety of interior items and more. "Cross" has prepared some ideas for you. Get creative and give old jeans a new life.

Denim interior

So what to do with old jeans? Let's start with the interior of your house or apartment. The easiest option is, of course, creating a . The design can be both the simplest and with decorative elements.

Jeans can also be used in the design of your workplace. A good solution for using jeans pockets is to make wall organizer for storing various tools and stationery. Pockets can be sewn different ways: vertically, horizontally, chaotically or systematically.

You can also make desktop organizers using thick boxes as a basis. Again, the design is up to you!

Knitters and embroiderers will love these fun baskets for yarn, knitting needles and floss:

If you have a “large stock” of unnecessary denim items, then feel free to make denim furniture! You can start with a simple pouf or, and end with a whole sofa! The main thing here is inspiration and a furniture stapler)

Such updating of furniture will not require cash costs.

You can continue the denim interior with a stylish carpet.

And these can be placed in the bedroom by the bed or in the bathroom.

Jeans have a place in the kitchen. Sew cute mouse gloves, napkins with a cozy cutlery pocket, make hot coasters, and your kitchen will sparkle with “denim” colors.

For giving

The long-awaited summer is coming soon. Let's see what to sew from old jeans for a summer residence. A little effort and jeans turn into a great hammock!

Want to get away? Sew on hastily denim screen and create your own corner in the garden. Pockets are useful for a book or magazine.

For a picnic, sew a denim rug or a lovely tablecloth with pockets for napkins and cutlery.

For gardening, denim aprons come in handy with plenty of pockets for tools or seed bags.

So that the tools of your husband, dad or grandfather are not lost, sew similar covers for them from their own jeans)

Old country stools can be easily updated with denim covers.

Jeans clothing

Now let's talk about reworking old jeans into new wardrobe items. Devote the evening to your jeans and voila! New chic summer skirt ready.

And from strips of denim, you can sew a sundress for trips to the river.

Adding a bright border to jeans, you get an elegant apron.

Well, for super-creative needlewomen we demonstrate such a miracle of cutting and sewing.

Jeans shoes

Not only clothes, but also shoes can be made using old jeans: from indoor slippers to boots! In this case, in addition to jeans, you will need ready-made soles.

Jeans for fashionistas

All kinds of decorations

lovers various decorations we have not bypassed and prepared a selection of ideas: collars, butterflies, headbands, hair clips, bracelets, necklaces, brooches, earrings. All this is made from jeans with the addition of various beads, buttons, metal fittings, etc. Stock up on inspiration and create beauty!

Bags and handbags

There are never too many bags! Therefore, hurry up to create a couple of new handbags from unnecessary jeans for the upcoming summer. As always, there are a lot of options from simple to complex: with embroidery with threads and ribbons, with bead handles, with various belts and chains, with fabric applications and many many others…

Altering clothes is far from a sign of poverty. Although, of course, often such a need arises due to lack of funds for new things. Therefore, old ones are used: worn jeans are repaired or cut off, dresses are sewn from shirts, coats are converted into a jacket, and so on.

But the transformation of one old wardrobe item into another new one is also creative process. There may be mass interesting ideas. And not necessarily these clothes were in a sock. Perhaps the item was bought and did not fit in size. And what cannot be worn as is, can be remade completely into something else, or make changes, decorate.

If not everyone, then many have cut their jeans to shorts. Did you sew a dress out of trousers or jeans? Not? Then you don't even know what interesting models may turn out.

We sew a dress from trousers

Method number 1: patches or stripes

It is logical that the trousers are pieces of fabric from which a dress can be cut in the same way as from a whole piece of material. Only it will not be a one-piece model, because we are limited by the cut of trousers.

First, we wash the trousers, if necessary, after they dry, we cut the fabric at the seams without any flaws (abrasions, stains, hooks, holes).

The dress will have to be assembled from small parts. Choose a pattern with details that fit on the cuts from the trousers.

Skinny trousers alone are hardly enough for a dress, unless you are sewing one for a little girl. Therefore, you will have to combine two, or even more. In this case, the fabric should be approximately the same thickness and, of course, combined in color, texture or pattern.

Two-pants dress example

Trousers were used from the same plain dense stretch fabric different colors: black and red. The dress was sewn, so to speak, at random, without a pattern. Other black stretch fabric is used for sleeves, neckline and hem.

1, 2. We cut the seams along the perimeter of the legs. We get 8 pieces of fabric: 4 black, 4 red.

3, 4, 5. We make the middle of the dress red. We cut a strip for the front and back. If the length of the whole piece is not enough, we make it from parts. You can do embroidery.

6, 7. Cut out the side parts of the front. We attach two side parts to the middle part of the front.

8, 9. Draw an armhole line on one side. Cut out. Fold the part in half, circle the armhole on the second part and cut it out. We correct the side line, cut off the excess.

10. Level the bottom.

11. Before the dress is ready.

12. On a black strip of fabric we put the middle part of the back (the edges overlap), circle around the edge of the middle part.

13. So cut out the two side parts of the back.

14. We sew the middle part of the back with the side ones.

15. We impose on the back in front of the front sides inward, along the front we draw a line of the bottom and armholes on the back.

16. Fold the back in half face inward, draw a side line.

17. The back of the dress is ready.

18, 19. We sweep the back with the front, folding the parts face to face, along the side seams. We measure. We plan surpluses, remove, correct.

20. We cut out the sleeve from unnecessary fabric, tack, measure, adjust.

21. We tear off, cut out according to the markup and get a sleeve pattern. According to these patterns, we already cut out the details from the prepared fabric (4 in total).

22. Sew along one side.

23. We attach to the armhole.

24. Sew the sleeves. Sew them on the bottom.

25. Sew a strip folded in half lengthwise to the neckline. We insert a wide elastic band.

To the bottom of the dress, you can also sew a strip of fabric that is used for the sleeves. Here is a dress made of trousers.

From the stripes, you get such a pretty sundress on a drawstring.

The dress can be sewn according to this principle: cut the pattern into strips, as shown in the figure, then cut these parts out of the trousers.

You can first stitch the canvas from the stripes, and then cut out the details of the dress.

Method number 2: use the top of the trousers as the original part of the dress

Wide trousers or, even more so, men's trousers big size give more options. The part with a belt can be used both on top of the dress and on the bottom. See original ideas.

Method number 3: pants and a dress

From very wide knitted trousers with an elastic band, just like that, in the leg of which you fit freely, you can sew such a stylish dress.

Everything is done very simply. Put one leg on the body, the other on the arm.

Mark the width of the bottom of the sleeve.

Model the line of the sleeve. Sew from the bottom of the leg to the lower convergence of the middle seams of the pants.

Cut off excess fabric, finish the edge.

We sew a dress from jeans

The simplest dress will turn out if you cut the crotch of the jeans and unfold them so that side seams were in the middle, and stepping on the sides. From above we draw straight lines as in the figure. We sew the seams. Then we customize the figure.

You can also sew canvases from stripes cut from several pairs of jeans. Then, from these canvases, sew a dress.

An interesting dress or cape made of jeans, made using the patchwork method.

The combination of jeans with another fabric will look original.

From one pair of jeans you can sew such a sundress.

To do this, you need to cut the middle and crotch. Draw lines as in the photo. Cut along these lines. These pieces will be the middle seams of the front and back. The belt will be at the bottom of the sundress. You can add fabric in the middle.

You can also safely combine different colors jeans, do not process the armholes and the neck of the dress, make scuffs.

Almost everyone has jeans in their wardrobe, and even the highest quality models wear out or get bored quickly enough. But do not rush to send old jeans to a landfill - you can make very interesting and useful things in the house from them. And they are truly exclusive. After all, even using these ideas, each craftswoman will breathe her own soul into them.

1. Pillowcase

2. Armchairs

3. Organizer for tools

4. Handbag

5. Apron

6. Organizer for creativity

7. Pet bed

8. Cases for gadgets

9. Desktop organizer

10. Organizer bag

11. Mirror frame

12. Slippers

13. Rug

14. Bracelet

15. Pouf

Stylish ottoman that you can make with your own hands from plastic bottles and a cover sewn from scraps of old jeans will become a unique piece of home decor.

16. Picnic bag

19. Cover

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It is worth noting that jeans are included in the list.

Helpful Hints

Bag of old jeans

Bag- one of the most popular things that is sewn from old jeans. We offer you several options for turning jeans into a bag.

Option 1:

For work you will need:

- Old jeans

Old tie

old brooch

pins

Sewing machine

- Scissors

Let's get to work:

1) Cut off the legs of the jeans to make shorts, level, just below the pockets.

2) Cut off all rough seams in the lower part.

3) Turn your jeans inside out. Sew together back and front, cutting off everything superfluous.

4) Fasten with pins bottom edge and stitch it on sewing machine.

5) Turn the product inside out on the front side . You should get something like this:

6) The main part of the bag is ready, now you need to add accessories to it. To make a pen, you will need old tie suitable color. Pass it through the side and front loops of the former jeans.

7) Fasten the ends of the tie in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe fly beautiful brooch. Your new bag is ready!

Option 2:

The second simple version of the bag is suitable for small items, for example, picnic snacks.

For work you will need:

- Old jeans

Old narrow belt

Needle and thread

pins

Sewing machine

- Scissors

Let's get to work:

1) Prepare the necessary materials.

2) Cut the leg approximately in half ( 40 centimeters).

3) Prepare the straps: one with a buckle about 10 centimeters, the second piece with holes of length 40 centimeters and two more pieces about 3 centimeters.

4, 5) Turn the leg inside out. Since the top seam will be the top of the bag, sew the other edge on the machine.

6) Sew the corners so that you get a triangle, as shown in the photo. Then, if you turn the leg inside out, the corners will be rounded.

7) At one end of the long lace, do holes with an awl.

8) On one side of the leg, approximately starting from the center, use a thread with a needle to sew long lace . Use a small piece of belt 3 centimeters to make a loop.

9) Sew a piece of belt with a buckle to the bottom, as shown in the photo, so that you can fasten the belt. Also use a second piece of belt 3 centimeters.

Option 3:

You can sew from old jeans original and very simple bag-bag lined and trimmed in vibrant cotton material.

For work you will need:

- Old jeans with wide legs

Lining and finishing material

Needle and thread

pins

Sewing machine

Safety pin

- Scissors

Let's get to work:

1) Cut off bottom of the leg from old jeans. The wider the legs, the wider your future bag will be. You can choose its height as you wish.

2) Cut out another part of the jeans bottom of the future bag by taking measurements beforehand.

3) With pins secure the bottom of the bag turning the pants inside out.

4) Machine sew the edges, joining the bottom to the top. After that, turn the product on the front side. It should look like this.

5) Optionally, you can add a few details for decoration.

6) To make the lining, cut out colored cotton fabric rectangular ones were made by attaching a ready-made blank for the future bag to them, as shown in the photo. The top of the lining will be used for the exterior, so you should leave her high.

7) Sew both pieces of lining together, and then secure with pins around the outside of the bag as shown in the photo. The lining will be tucked in right side up.

8) Sew the edge on the machine, stepping back approximately 0.5 centimeters from the edge, and then sew another seam about 7 centimeters from the edge. With the lining tucked in, you should end up with something like this:

9) You can make any height of the top trim as you wish. Insert the lining inside the bag, and then fasten it from the inside. From the outside, make another line about 2.5 centimeters from the edge of the lining. This will be the place for the future lace.

10) Make a hole on the outside and use a safety pin to insert the string.

yoga mat cover

Covers for rugs, which are required for yoga classes, are sometimes quite difficult to find, and they usually cost more than the rugs themselves. Why not make a handy DIY rug bag? Moreover, it is quite simple to do this from old jeans.

For work you will need:

- Old jeans or pants

pins

Sewing machine

- Scissors

Let's get to work:

1) Cut off jeans one leg. This will be the basis for the future case.

2) Check that the leg length is a little more than the length of the rug. Cut off any excess if necessary.

3) Fold the leg seam inside, as shown in the photo, turning it inside out.

4) Sew the edge on the machine. This will the bottom of your future case.

5) Turn the leg back on the front side, you should end up with a bottom like this:

6) Fold the second edge, turning the leg inside out, secure it with pins. The width of the fold will depend on how long will the rug be. To do this, first place a mat inside the leg and check that it fits completely there.

7) Sew this edge in a circle, but not completely, leaving a hole to insert the string.

8) You can take any thick string or make it yourself from the second leg. To do this, cut along the entire length of the strip along with the seam.

9) Sew the strip carefully from the wrong side, then turn it right side out. Can iron the cord.

10) Using safety pin insert the drawstring into the top of the leg from the wrong side.

11) Turn the leg right side out and pull the ends of the lace through hole drilled in the top.

12) Cut another strip from the second leg, about 10 centimeters.

13) Having folded it several times, sew on a typewriter along the entire length. This will handle for your case.

14) Sew one end of the handle to the top lace, and the second to the bottom of the cover.

The rug cover is ready!

denim flower

From scraps of denim can be made various crafts, for example, original denim flowers, which will be great decorations for clothes, shoes, bags and other things.

For work you will need:

- Denim scraps

Threads with a needle

- Scissors

Let's get to work:

1) Prepare all the necessary materials.

2) Cut out 4 petals figure-eight, one round and one leaf-shaped, as shown in the photo. The sheet can be cut from denim with a seam in the middle.

3) Fold the petals in the shape of a figure eight in half and sew from the back.

4) Cut the sheet and round pattern with scissors from the edges to get fringe.

5) Gather all the parts of the flower together and sew all the details.

Denim flowers can decorate the bag.

Jeans slippers

You may be surprised that old jeans can be sewn original denim slippers for home, which are very comfortable and quite durable thanks to denim.

For work you will need:

- Old jeans

foam sheet

Needles with thread

pins

Sewing machine

Pen and chalk

- Scissors

Let's get to work:

1) Choose matching jeans to your feet crammed wide into the back pockets.

2) Take as a sample some a pair of your shoes, attach it to a sheet of cardboard and circle the contours with a pen.

3) Cut out of cardboard along the contour two soles.

4) Attach the soles to the bottom of the cut off legs and circle them chalk along the contour.

5) Secure the legs with pins so that they do not mix, and then cut along the chalk outline of the pattern, leaving 2 centimeters for seams.

6) Sew a double pattern on the sewing machine, while leaving part of the sole unsewn so that you can later insert a solid base future slippers.

7) Cut out the foam two soles, which correspond in size to cardboard patterns.

8) Turn the denim blank on the front side and insert into it first cardboard and then foam soles.

9) Sew by hand open side of soles to hide the cardboard and foam inside. The soles are ready.

10) Cut off jeans back pockets and insert the soles into them.

11) On the reverse side, sew the bottom of the pocket to the soles.

12) Simple denim slippers are ready!

Slippers from old jeans master class

Jeans apron

Very easy to do apron from the back of old jeans, which will not be a pity to get dirty in the kitchen or in the workshop and which can be easily washed.

For work you will need:

- Old jeans

cotton material

Any details for decoration (optional)

Needles with thread

pins

Sewing machine

- Scissors

Let's get to work:

1) Cut off the back of the jeans below the pockets by about 10 centimeters. Leave part of the waistband of your jeans (approximately 10 centimeters at both sides).

2) Sew the leg seam until it is even, then sew curved part to the opposite side.

3) To decorate the apron, you can use colored cotton inserts. For example, you can cut a piece of denim material in the area between the waistband and the main part and insert instead bright detail.

4) You can also use other bright details, including lace or trim to make your apron more fun. Also don't forget to lengthen the belt to make it easier to tie at the back.

Jeans rug

Often, for the manufacture of crafts and various other things from old jeans, the denim itself is used without seams and belts. To make your creativity as waste-free as possible, you can even take advantage of details such as places with rough seams and belts. For example, you can sew an original rug out of them.

For work you will need:

- Belts, bottom of the legs and stripes with seams from old jeans with a width of about 5-6 centimeters

Cotton material for decoration

Needles with thread

pins

Sewing machine

- Scissors

Let's get to work:

1) Fold all the strips of jeans together in a row in the order you walk in, trim the ends. You can use the parts perfectly different colors in random order, or folded by color from lighter to darker. You can also leave labels old jeans.

2) Fasten the strips with thread or pins, and then sew them together with a sewing machine. Be careful: in some places the machine may not be able to cope with too thick material, then you will have to sew the parts manually with thick needles.

3) When the main part of the carpet is ready, you can sew on the sides finishing. Finishing can be made from the same denim material, or you can use another dense fabric.

Jeans blanket

You can make from old jeans original thick blanket, which can also be used as picnic mat. For this work, it is important to take all measurements very carefully and cut out a large number of square patterns from fabrics, which will then be sewn into one piece.

For work you will need:

- Old jeans (several pairs)

Finishing and back material

Where to put old jeans? Probably, sooner or later, such a question arises before every fan of this clothing. Favorite jeans are often worn literally to holes, and one day the moment of parting comes: it will no longer be possible to pass off the resulting holes as a fashionable and stylish decor, patches will not help either ...

I have a lot of such disused denim clothes. The hand does not rise to throw away, because the fabric, with the exception of individual leaky parts, is very durable, and it can be given a second life by turning old things into new ones - practical, beautiful and useful. I'm looking for ideas! Who is with me?

1. Kitchen potholders

There are never too many grips!

They can be made quite concise and practical, or they can be decorated with embroidery or appliqué and turned into an element of kitchen decor - everything is in our hands. It's a very tempting idea to use the part with pockets: look at what wonderful mittens you get (photo on the top right).

2. Table setting accessories

It seems to me that for a country picnic or a youth party - what you need! It turns out fresh, original and stylish, do you agree?

And again, sewing such accessories is easy and fast, if there was a sewing machine at hand. Well, if you wish, the idea can be developed indefinitely: combine fabrics, decorate pockets with appliqué, add lace, and so on...

3. Wall organizer for small items

A creative approach to creating this interior detail is only welcome. It is not at all necessary to make an organizer in the form of a simple rectangle - cats also look great. You can play with the shape or location of the pockets, use different decorative elements- it all depends on the desire and skills of the craftswoman, there are no restrictions!

There are no strict rules either - such an organizer can and should be customized for yourself. I think this idea will come in handy in the country too - for storing bags of seeds, gloves, small tools (such as secateurs or scissors). Denim fabric is durable, reliable, washable well, if anything...

In general, such devices for storing small items are universal - they can find a place in the hallway, and in the kitchen, and in the bathroom, and in the nursery, and in the office ...

If only there were enough reserves for all ideas! The list of ideas is just beginning...

4. Organizer for remotes on the sofa

The number and size of pockets depends on the needs, but the decor can be chosen according to taste and mood - not necessarily lace, as in the photo.

5. Decorative pillows

Practical or decorative? What do you choose?

I really love pillows, so this idea interested me. I’m not sure, however, that I’m ready to work on complex and sophisticated decor, but simple and practical models, in my opinion, also look good.

Well, the pillows just ask for a suitable addition - a spectacular denim bedspread or a plaid, do you agree?

6. Plaid or bedspread

However, even if there is not enough denim, this is not a reason to abandon the idea: a colorful plaid made of multi-colored shreds looks no worse than a strict and concise one. Just the selection of accessories and furnishings should be appropriate.

And by the way, as a blanket, I think the combined version is even more successful: after all, denim is quite heavy and rough. For a bedspread, this is normal, but I want to make a blanket softer, more comfortable ...

7. Mat

Moreover, here the scope for creativity is even wider: you can not be limited to patchwork products alone. Even those who do not know how to sew will easily find the right technique for themselves to create a chic denim rug.

Although, I confess, until I saw the photos, it didn’t even occur to me that old jeans could be cut into ribbons, so that later they could be knitted, weaved, weaved a charming rug. At first, my imagination did not advance beyond the patchwork, but now new horizons have opened up for it!

8. Furniture covers

Yes, I agree that denim furniture is not an idea for every home. It is very specific and requires the appropriate environment. It's not even a style - it's a way of life. But you must admit, these samples are impressive!

In the end, you can not take on large furniture - limit yourself to small, but very useful items. Such as an ottoman, for example.

What, you don't need an ottoman? And what about the lampshade?

Or here is a cover on the back of a working chair with pockets for a tablet and a smartphone - it just won me over. Original, convenient and at the same time not difficult at all.

In the end, if you don’t imagine such furniture in your city apartment, but you like the idea, maybe it’s worth updating the country interior? For example, sew denim covers for stools or chairs...

9. Cover and organizer mat for a sewing machine

And then complete the set with a suitable pincushion and a basket for needlework:

A well-organized workplace makes work easy and comfortable, and cute accessories improve mood, don't you agree?

10. Phone case

Of course, you can buy ready-made. And you can sew a suitable one with your own hands. From old jeans, yes. In my opinion, this topic deserves attention.

The idea in the photo on the right captivated me. I think everyone has experienced this situation: a short charger cord - and no furniture near the only free outlet. A pocket from old jeans helps to solve the problem easily and elegantly.

11. Bag or backpack

For young people, as far as I can tell from my offspring, backpacks are preferable. Sewing a good backpack is a little more difficult than a regular bag, but the convenience is worth the effort.

For those whose favorite clothes are jeans, this backpack is perfect. Make the youngest as a gift for the New Year, or something ...

12. Jewelry and accessories

As holiday decoration they are unlikely to fit, it is more of an everyday option. And new year gift for a sister or girlfriend, it can turn out to be successful.

13. Cover for an album, diary, notebook

Pockets on the cover are useful for putting pens and pencils, and a convenient clasp for a puffy photo album comes out of the jeans belt.

The cover can be made removable, or you can make a stylish denim binding for a finished or homemade notebook, album, diary.

14. Gift wrapping

By the same principle, it is easy to make, for example, a bag for a sweet gift. Can you decorate denim cardboard box for your presentation. There are many options, and I think we will return to this topic - closer to the New Year.

15. Wicker basket

I don’t know how convenient and practical it is, but it’s interesting - no doubt. Or maybe someone has already made similar baskets? What did you use them for?

16. Toys and souvenirs

It is clear that skills are needed for such crafts - Stuffed Toys not every needlewoman will undertake to sew. On the other hand, why not learn? After all, it's so great!

Anyway, simple models- like an elephant or the same mice - even not very experienced craftswomen will be able to do it.