Zippers & back pockets from jeans
#11
Super Member
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Iowa
Posts: 1,798
I take all the thread out of pockets. I sew the pocket to piece of denim so I can fray it. Also sew it with bright colored thread. Use the side seam for purse strap what ever length you want. I have made so many but never taken a picture. I also so buttons on like hearts, beach stuff, etc.
When I use the pockets on jean quilts I also take all the thread out and match the color thread to the flannel on the back.
When I use the pockets on jean quilts I also take all the thread out and match the color thread to the flannel on the back.
#12
Super Member
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Central Wisconsin
Posts: 4,391
Would love to see a picture of the bandanna through the belt loops. I do a lot of patching of jeans, so have these things around all the time.
#16
Banned
Thread Starter
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Colorado
Posts: 3,536
I used the seam ripper and carefully removed the zipper.
For some reason I thought the zipper would be longer, but
seeing it removed from the jeans.
MAYBE it is 5-6" long (didn't measure it).
I cut the denim as close around the pockets as I could.
In fact the only thing really left of the one pair I cut up
are the waist, inner & outer seams, front pockets, back
pockets, and the "carpenter" pockets oh yeah and the
belt loops.
For some reason I thought the zipper would be longer, but
seeing it removed from the jeans.
MAYBE it is 5-6" long (didn't measure it).
I cut the denim as close around the pockets as I could.
In fact the only thing really left of the one pair I cut up
are the waist, inner & outer seams, front pockets, back
pockets, and the "carpenter" pockets oh yeah and the
belt loops.
#17
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Posts: 939
Yes! I saw the neatest idea the other day where someone had taken back pockets from multiple pairs of jeans and sewed them together (like you would quilt squares). They used the waste bands as borders. I don't know what was done for the backing or if there was one. Hang the finished product. The pockets can be used to store things.
#18
Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Catskills, New York
Posts: 262
You can definitely use the pockets with a denim purse, the kind that teens might like. If you use them in side the purse, they can hold phones, calculators, lipstick, pens and pencils, credit cards.
#19
Try googling the junk jeans lady she makes all kinds of things and uses every part of the jeans one amazing lady I have seen her demos at 2 shows all I can say is amazing I hope this info will help you find her
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
hopetoquilt
General Chit-Chat (non-quilting talk)
10
11-10-2013 01:39 PM
craftybear
Links and Resources
10
06-10-2011 03:13 AM