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Denim Jeans Recycling

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What can you make with jeans that are out-of-style, ripped beyond repair or painted? What can you make with the inseams, waistbands and other components even after you use up the flat panels of fabric? In this episode, we’ll explore the ways people have been creatively recycling denim jean fabric for thousands of years, and get project ideas you can make today.

Where to Donate Jeans

Blue Jeans Go Green

Levi’s and Dockers

Madewell

How to Update, Repair and Make Your Own Jeans

Jeans Hacks

How to Shorten Jeans and Keep the Original Hem

When patching kids jeans, make a hole into a monster mouth!

Insert elastic in the waistband to make the jeans fit your shape better.

If you like to doodle, you can draw on jeans with a bleach pen to make them into a work of art.

Sew Your Own Custom Ginger Jeans with Closet Case Patterns

Sew Your Dream Jeans – Online Sewing Class from Heather Lou on Vimeo.

Trashmagination Projects Made from Recycled Denim Jeans

Over-the-Door Toy Organizer from Recycled Jean Back Pockets

Toy organizer from recycled jeans

Toy organizer from recycled jeans

Giant Cushion Chair from Recycled Denim Jeans

Nora tests the new Huggle Pod cushion

Nora tests the new Huggle Pod cushion

Ointment Organizer

Scar Care pocket on Ointment Organizer

Scar Care pocket on Ointment Organizer


Ointment Organizer designed by Trashmagination from recycled denim jeans

Ointment organizer from recycled denim jeans

Upholstered Dining Room Chair

Dining room chair reupholstered with denim jeans by Trashmagination

Dining room chair reupholstered with denim jeans

Denim Recycling Projects that I Want to Make

Artists Who Make Items from Recycled Denim Jeans

Kymberly Leicester from Grubbee makes dribble bibs from recycled jeans and will donate 50 percent of sales to the Jeans for Genes campaign in Australia.

If you donate to the http://Jeans for Genes campaign in Australia, Angela Van Boxtel will crochet your old jeans into a rug. Her son has a genetic disease.

Katrina Rodabaugh – slow fashion advocate – book comes out October 2018 called Mending Matters: Stitch, Patch, and Repair Your Favorite Denim & More

Pam DeLuco is a paper artist who makes books from jeans.

Karen Stevens makes adorable pencil cases from recycled denim. Many feature her signature image of a moon embroidered tiny facial features.

A post shared by karen (@kzstevens) on

Jean Shin made an installation called Alterations from blue jean legs stiffened with wax She also did a recent installation where she made sandbags from jeans called Levee.

A post shared by Jean Shin (@jean.shin) on

Claire Armstrong from the blog Pillar Box Blue makes a lot of upcycled crafts from denim jeans.

Yarn Made from Recycled Denim Jeans

Other Resources Mentioned in this Podcast Episode

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What can you make with jeans that are out-of-style, ripped beyond repair or painted? What can you make with the inseams, waistbands and other components even after you use up the flat panels of fabric? In this episode, we’ll explore the ways people have been creatively recycling denim jean fabric for thousands of years, and get project ideas you can make today.

Where to Donate Jeans

Blue Jeans Go Green

Levi’s and Dockers

Madewell

How to Update, Repair and Make Your Own Jeans

Jeans Hacks

How to Shorten Jeans and Keep the Original Hem

When patching kids jeans, make a hole into a monster mouth!

Insert elastic in the waistband to make the jeans fit your shape better.

If you like to doodle, you can draw on jeans with a bleach pen to make them into a work of art.

Sew Your Own Custom Ginger Jeans with Closet Case Patterns

Sew Your Dream Jeans – Online Sewing Class from Heather Lou on Vimeo.

Trashmagination Projects Made from Recycled Denim Jeans

Over-the-Door Toy Organizer from Recycled Jean Back Pockets

Toy organizer from recycled jeans

Toy organizer from recycled jeans

Giant Cushion Chair from Recycled Denim Jeans

Nora tests the new Huggle Pod cushion

Nora tests the new Huggle Pod cushion

Ointment Organizer

Scar Care pocket on Ointment Organizer

Scar Care pocket on Ointment Organizer


Ointment Organizer designed by Trashmagination from recycled denim jeans

Ointment organizer from recycled denim jeans

Upholstered Dining Room Chair

Dining room chair reupholstered with denim jeans by Trashmagination

Dining room chair reupholstered with denim jeans

Denim Recycling Projects that I Want to Make

Artists Who Make Items from Recycled Denim Jeans

Kymberly Leicester from Grubbee makes dribble bibs from recycled jeans and will donate 50 percent of sales to the Jeans for Genes campaign in Australia.

If you donate to the http://Jeans for Genes campaign in Australia, Angela Van Boxtel will crochet your old jeans into a rug. Her son has a genetic disease.

Katrina Rodabaugh – slow fashion advocate – book comes out October 2018 called Mending Matters: Stitch, Patch, and Repair Your Favorite Denim & More

Pam DeLuco is a paper artist who makes books from jeans.

Karen Stevens makes adorable pencil cases from recycled denim. Many feature her signature image of a moon embroidered tiny facial features.

A post shared by karen (@kzstevens) on

Jean Shin made an installation called Alterations from blue jean legs stiffened with wax She also did a recent installation where she made sandbags from jeans called Levee.

A post shared by Jean Shin (@jean.shin) on

Claire Armstrong from the blog Pillar Box Blue makes a lot of upcycled crafts from denim jeans.

Yarn Made from Recycled Denim Jeans

Other Resources Mentioned in this Podcast Episode

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