DIY Jean Purse

For this tutorial I will be making a purse from a pair of old jeans. This project could also work with a jean skirt. First we need to get together all our materials.

Step 1:

First you will need a pair of old pants, shorts, or even a jean skirt. I will be using jeans. You will also need:
1-needle and thread
2-seem binder
3-scissors
4-tape measure
5-pins
6-marker

Step 2:

Lay your jeans out flat and measure how deep you would like your purse to be. Add an inch or so for the seem.

Step 3:

using your marker, draw a dotted line across desired length.

Step 4:

cut along the dotted line.

Step 5:

turn your skirt inside out.

Step 6:

Sew the bottom of the skirt together, and yes I am sewing all of this by hand because unfortunately I don't own a sewing machine.

Step 7:

Then sew seembinder on top of stitching. Use pins to help hold down the seembinder so that it doesn't get in your way while sewing.

Step 8:

Turn your purse backside right. Ok we finished the base, onto the straps.

Step 9:

take that extra length you cut off earlier and lay it out flat.

Step 10:

cut along the seem. Then cut into 4 equal strips.

Step 11:

With the light side facing out sew 1 end of the straps together

Step 12:

Then fold the strap dark side facing out and sew it all together. We finished our first strap. Repeat steps 12 and 13 for the other strap.

Step 13:

Ok now that we are all finished with the straps we are going to sew them onto the base.

Step 14:

sew one end of the strap right above the front pocket. Sew the other end above the other front pocket. Flip your purse to the back and repeat.

Step 15:

Decorate! Now that we finished the purse we can decorate it! For this tutorial I will be adding rhinestones.

Step 16:

materials you need to rhinestone.
1-hot glue gun
2-rhinestones in various sizes
3-newspaper
I'm also decorating mine with a feather accessory.

Step 17:

Set out newspaper so  you don't get glue on your table.

Step 18: DIY Jean Purse

plan out where you want the rhinestones to go

Step 19:

put a dot of glue where the rhinestone will be placed

Step 20:

press and hold rhinestone in place until secure

Step 21:

After about an hour of hot glue I have finally reached the final product! Voila! Your very own jean purse.Good luck with making yours and thanks for watching..er..umm..reading.