I have called this post 'Big Project 1' as this is something I have wanted to do for nearly ten years now... and as part of my crafting resolution for 2014, I planned to start and more importantly finish projects I had always meant to start!
Here is just a small amount of the large collection of old jeans in my crafty room so I had plenty of material to work with.
Selecting several pairs of jeans I cut the pockets off, and ignoring the front and legs for now.
Slowly but surely I sewed them all together to make the first side of my cushion cover.
So that was the first side completed, a little wonky, but I was happy with the different blues and blacks I used.
For the other side I decided on a diagonal stripe, corner to corner. For this I would use the pieces of leg I had put aside earlier.
The easiest way to do this was to cut open each piece of denim leg and lay it flat. I measured strips about 7-8 inches deep and as long as possible. Each leg resulted in about 7 or 8 strips of denim.
The giant cushion is 100 x 100 cm, so a single strip wasn't going to go corner to corner. So I sewed matching strips together initially and then lined them up to start sewing them together.
I tried to randomise the colour of denim as much as I could and line up the join in the middle.
So here is the second side of the cushion cover!
I am super happy with it, looks pretty effective and I think would make great smaller cushion covers to sell in the shop. All I need to do is sew them together now, think I am going to use the jeans buttons to fasten it on one side but I haven't decided yet.
So there you go my mega denim up-cycled cushion cover, think I used less than ten pairs, will have to get stuck into some covers for the shop now to make more of a dent in my old jeans collection!
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