Thrift is a commendable quality.And when it comes to extending the life of old things, it is not so much thriftiness that comes to the fore, but imagination and creativity. After all, figuring out how to revive an old thing and breathe new life into it is not an easy task. Although there are things, the options for remaking which are simply lying on the surface: and you do not need to invent anything special, everything is almost ready. A few strokes of scissors, a little work with a needle and thread, the final touches in the form of fashionable and necessary decor - and here we have a completely new thing: beautiful and useful. Sewing bags from old jeans is just one of such simple transformations. After all, in fact: the top of denim pants is almost a ready-made bag. All that remains is to turn these unnecessary jeans into a new and fashionable handbag with your own hands. Moreover, such bags are different and are used for various purposes. If you want, sew a laptop bag, if you want, make a beach bag, or if you want, create an exclusive women's handbag with your own hands. How to perform such magical transformations? Let's find out.

Laptop Bag

DIY Laptop Bag(especially the student version) will be no worse than a store-bought one. To sew such a bag, first wash and iron the jeans. Then turn them inside out and carefully lay them out on the table. Then cut off the legs together with the lower part of the top of the jeans. You should get a short denim skirt. Now sweep the bottom of the skirt along a rounded line: make the roundings at the extreme lower corners. And then simply lay a strong line along this line on a sewing machine and turn the resulting bag inside out. Now take the legs and cut out longitudinal side seams from them, where the denim is stitched overlapping and forms a kind of stripes. These will be our bag handles. Under the belt, closer to the sides, make four slits for the handles (no more than the width of the stripes). Then thread one handle through the slits on the front side and tie its ends from the inside with large strong knots. We make the second handle in the same way. The laptop bag is ready.

Bag on the long handle

From old jeans with your own hands easilymake a stylish bag with a long strap. To do this, cut off the legs of jeans, wash and iron them well. Then rip the inner seams of the legs and iron them in the steam mode. We got two blanks for the pattern. We calculate the width of the future bag and the length of the handles from the size of these blanks. Next, we make a drawing of two one-piece parts of the bag: one part is the front side of the bag and part of the handle, the second is the back side of the bag and part of the handle. The pattern should look like a semicircular pocket at the bottom, one upper corner of which is extended and turned into a strap-handle (or rather, its half). We transfer the pattern to the fabric and cut out two symmetrical parts. In this case, one part has the handle on the right, and the other on the left. Next, on the lower part of the parts, we put two darts so that the bag sewn with your own hands does not turn out flat, and stitch them on the machine. After that, fold both parts with the wrong sides together and sew them with strong threads to the handles. Then, separately, process the edges of the handles with a hem stitch and join both handles, carefully sewing their tops together. That's all, actually. For a more playful look of the bag, you can sew the parts together on the front side, and fluff up the edges of the seams and handles. You can decorate the bag handles with leather piping or halves of a zipper. You can decorate the bag with applique or embroidery. Or you can design such a bag in the crazy patchwork style, decorating it with denim and other scraps, ribbons, cords and braid.

Children's jeans handbag

A fashionable and comfortable handbag, sewn by handfrom old jeans, you can please even a little fashionista. For such a bag you will not even need the jeans themselves, but only the back pockets from them. We sew the bag in several stages:

Cut out the back pockets along with the tissue around the pockets (about one and a half centimeters). Fabric inside each pocket is cut, leaving near the seams allowances of five millimeters.

We decorate the pockets with embroidery or appliqueat this stage, because in a finished bag this will be much more difficult. If you are going to sew on your child's handbag inner or outer pockets, then you need to do it now too.

Now we add both pocketssides, fasten with pins or sweep, and then in the upper corners of the handbag we insert the strap and we remove the edges and sides of the bag, laying a line exactly along the seams of the former pockets.

A few lines or manually reinforce the corners at the entrance to the bag. It is better to do it all by hand, with an armed needle and thread, as the sewing machine can simply "not take" this part of the pockets.

Now we make a fringe from the fabric protruding from the seams where there were allowances on the seams on the sides and at the bottom of the handbag.

As you can see, you can sew a bag from old ones with your own hands.jeans is not that difficult. You can use a practically ready-made "semi-finished product" - the top of the pants or cut off the legs, rip them and use them as a canvas for a pattern for the future bag. In addition, by sewing together scraps of denim of different colors, you can first make a patchwork fabric, and then make patterns for the bag parts from it. Embroidery, appliques, rhinestones, buttons, braid and decorative cords will add originality to your bag and disguise the abrasions of old denim. Try to sew such a bag: you will not have to throw away jeans, and you will get a new thing. And even in the case when the "first pancake is lumpy", it will not be so offensive: the jeans are old anyway, and they were going to throw them away anyway. So making new ones from old things with your own hands is quite real magic, you just need to apply skillful hands to these things and fantasize a little. Good luck! We advise you to read:

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