How Do You Make A Denim Skirt From Recycled Jeans?
• Find an old pair of jeans. • Measure and cut each leg off at the knee. • Using a seam ripper, undo the inner thigh and crotch seams. • Cut to straighten the curve of the crotch seams. • Restitch the crotch seams into straight seams. • Let the hemline naturally fray. • Decorate the skirt with patches, beads or sequins. Wear leggings or coloured nylons under your miniskirt.
• Find an old pair of jeans. As long as the top part of the jeans is still in great condition, the condition lower down isn’t of such concern. Jeans with holes in the knees and frayed leg ends are ideal. • Think about where you’d like the skirt length to end Measure a suitable skirt length from the waist down the outside hem. The chosen measurement will serve as your hem boundary; leave about an inch (2.5cm) for the hem. Mark this length with a pencil (or sewing chalk). • Cut off the legs following your marked line. • Or, for a more precise result, cut off the legs a few inches lower for now and finish them later. The overall shape will change as you let out previously bunched-up crotch seams. You could measure down evenly on each side and cut straight across on a tubular skirt, or down from the waistband evenly in several places for a more conical skirt so you don’t make the middle too short. (Laying a complex surface flat and measuring “straight across” can distort its ultimately thr
