Bags of shabby denim are not unusual for a long time. On the contrary, many girls are happy to use such an accessory in everyday life.
What models of bags can be sewn from old jeans?
From "jeans" sew and spacious travel bags, and practical backpacks for daily use, shopping bags for going to the store, stylish clutches and miniature handbags for keys, phone. Similar models are often found in the collections of famous designers.
Bag backpack
Backpacks sewn from old jeans impress with their variety. These are simple models, hastily tailored from one leg with a fastened strap, and products of complex design with an abundance of pockets, compartments, inserted orthopedic backs and ergonomic straps. Of course, the manufacture of the latter requires certain knowledge and skills. But for tailoring a simple backpack - only desire and old jeans. All that is needed:
- cut off the leg;
- lay a line along the bottom cut;
- tuck and hem the upper cut to avoid sprinkling of threads;
- sew lace at the top of the backpack;
- attach the handles - straps and insert the lace.
Large shopping bag
A grocery store bag will be an alternative to numerous bags.
This is an excellent step to show your individuality and at the same time make a feasible contribution to the fight against cluttering the planet with plastic bags.
For such a model, handles of a ring or half-ring made of plastic and wood in tandem with a wide strap are ideal. Thanks to this decision, it can be worn in the hand or thrown over the shoulder.
Design can be the most diverse, starting from two stitched rectangles and ending with non-trivial ellipses with a stitched bottom and sides.
Miniature clutch bag
Despite the miniature size, it is these bags that require jewelry craftsmanship. After all, it is in them that it is necessary to combine all the details with special accuracy and lay perfectly even seams. Such bags necessarily imply the presence of patterns and accurate calculations. Often they contain frame inserts or parts are duplicated with high-quality adhesive material.
Do not despair if you do not have enough experience. Jeans bags require much less craftsmanship than sewing clothes, because here you do not need additional adjustments, clutches and planting. A good pattern, patience and meticulous execution, and very soon you will become the owner of the coveted clutch.
How to sew a bag of old jeans - what is needed for this
In order to stay in the trend it is not at all necessary to go for the next purchase to the nearest boutique, such a bag can be sewn with your own hands from a pair of old jeans.
Handmade products have firmly entered our lives and compete well with factory models, not inferior to them in either design or quality. But before you start sewing, you need to remember a few simple rules, the implementation of which guarantees a 100% result.
Quality seams . Even if you sew by hand, each of them must be ironed through a damp cotton cloth.
It is quite possible to do without a sewing machine, but there is no iron.
The presence of a duplicate layer. Of course, to duplicate the details of the future product or not is a personal matter for every craftswoman, it all depends on personal preferences and the author’s idea. But it is better to give additional stiffness to a future bag in advance at the initial stage than to look disappointed at the results of your work at the end of the sewing process.
Both fleselin and doubler can be used as a stabilizing layer. These materials behave perfectly. They are fairly easy to glue, just combine the jeans parts of the bag with blanks of duplicate material and iron them with a hot iron.
The presence of a paper pattern. Most novice craftswomen try to enjoy the results of their work as soon as possible, and with pleasure skip many steps in the sewing process, and only having learned the sorrow of disappointments, they come to the conclusion that there are no extra steps. Therefore, before you start sewing your first bag, you need to know exactly what you want to get in the end result. The sketch of the future creation should be thought out to the smallest detail, and captured on paper, not forgetting about the fittings and all kinds of decorative elements.
You can download the finished pattern on the Internet, if necessary, reduce or increase the details, or draw it yourself, using the knowledge gained at school in drawing lessons.
Before starting work, jeans should be washed, torn and ironed thoroughly, and only then proceed to the start of cutting parts.
A bag of old jeans with your own hands in half an hour: step by step instructions
For tailoring of a bag “in haste” special skills are not required, it is enough to be able to use a needle with a thread and a sewing machine. However, the latter can be dispensed with .
The bag consists of two stitched rectangles of jeans. The lower part (bottom) is formed by otstrochivaniya corners. Comfortable handles are made of similar material. To ensure that the inside of the bag is neat and does not dazzle with an abundance of raw seams, it has a cotton lining. If desired, a rectangular valve can be made.
Necessary materials and tools
- Old jeans;
- threads in tone;
- lining fabric;
- needles and pins;
- sewing machine;
- a ruler, a centimeter tape and a triangle with a right angle;
- scissors;
- Pattern.
Step-by-step instruction
- Tuck jeans at the seams and carefully iron with steam.
- Apply the details of the future bag to the denim fabric, not forgetting the allowances for the seams (front and back halves + handles).
- From the lining fabric, cut out 2 main parts of the bag. The size of the cotton parts must exactly match the size of the jeans parts.
- Cut all the details.
- Duplicate all the "jeans" details.
- Combine the details of a denim bag. Chip off invisible on the lower and side slices. Sweep away.
- Similarly, to deal with parts made of cotton, with only one difference, in the inside of the bag, leave a piece of about 10 cm in the side seam that is not sewn up.
- Fold the handle parts (long rectangles) in half. Combine slices and sweep along the long side.
- Lay machine lines in all areas with a note.
- Turn out the handles on the front side. So that this operation does not cause difficulties, use a simple tip - sew a cord to the edge of the handle and attach a pin to it, and then thread it into the “jeans tunnel”. Now it remains only to pull the cord, and the handle will begin to twist by itself.
- Remove the stitch, and iron the seams carefully.
- In the blanks of the bag (both from cotton and denim) at the bottom form a bottom. To do this, apply additional lines perpendicular to the lines of the lower seam, as if drawing corners. Please note that the line length corresponds to the width of the bottom in the finished product. If you want the bag to have a bottom with a width of 7 cm, then the angle hypotenuse should be 7 cm.
- Check the correspondence of the drawn lines, they should be a mirror image of each other. Sweep away.
- Lay the machine line. Remove the mark and iron the seams.
- Combine the details of the bag (jeans) with the handles, folding them to the front and pointing down. Chop or sweep. If a bag is provided with a valve in the design, catch it in the same way (with the sides facing each other).
- Insert the cotton inner part into the resulting structure.
- Sweep the top cut, making sure that the valve and handles are inside.
- Lay the machine line.
- Unscrew the product through the hole in the side seam of the inside of the bag. And the bag is ready!
