DIY Jean Purse

Intro: 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.

Comments

[deecatt45]

do you have to sew it with needle and thread?

[Penolopy Bulnick]

Love that you added rhinestones :)

[nnylyak_717]

Thank you. I wasn't sure of them at first because I didn't know if denim and rhinestones would mix too well but I think it worked better since the denim was gray.