Crafting 101

One of my four year old’s friends had a birthday the same week as she did. I’m always trying to find things to make for birthday’s and since this was a boy, well, that made it a challenge! I decided to make him a homemade Memory game.

It took several hours total, but that included waiting on spray paint to dry and a few coats of clear coat to dry. But the actually sewing took about an hour since I was working with jeans and doing this on the fly.

I took an old pair of jeans and cut the leg off a little under the knee. The key to this bag is to make sure you have a denim sewing needle and don’t sew on the hems or seams of the jeans. Your needle will break!

I turned it outside out and sewed a seam above the hem of the pants. Then I cut off the hem. You’re going to have a drawstring to the bag so you’ll need to turn the top over to create the hem at the top, but also to create the casing for your drawstring to go through. The trick with the casing is you end up having to cut a slit on the outside for the drawstring to go through. Since this is suppose to look like an old pair of jeans, you don’t have to worry about the slit where the drawstring is looking ragged.

Turn it right-side out and I ended up taking rope and hand stitching his initial to the front of the bag.  For the drawstring, I used the rope, I put it through it once, then took one end and ran it through again. That makes it draw up. To keep the ends from going back into the casing, I put buttons on the end. Gave it some class.

Tune in tomorrow to see how I did the rest…It’s fun and easy!

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