 So I'm here to bring you another Kind of re-edited old video. Now. This is a really long one. I could of course compressed it and made it shorter But you probably would miss out on some details. This is one of my first videos I had no idea what I was doing camera angle is really bad You see all of my chins like the camera is down low and you're looking up at me It's probably the worst camera angle on the planet, but you do see exactly what I'm doing with the denim So I hope you enjoy it. I'll be back in just a moment. So we're gonna film another video In a lot of my videos you see I have this apron on and it's obviously made out of old jeans I'm gonna show you how I made it and The other couple of things you can get out of the scraps after you make one Years ago I was crafting out here in the studio space in the garage and the humming in the background is my fans Because it's really hot out here in the summertime Anyway, I got really tired of having most of my wardrobe covered in glue, gesso, glitter paint, whatever I was constantly Coming back in the house with stuff all over my clothes. It wouldn't come out in the laundry And that's okay for some things, but I don't want my entire wardrobe to look like that So I decided I needed to have an apron for when I'm out here and I really wanted something sturdy and durable I was gonna use one of my kitchen aprons. I have a lot of kitchen aprons. My other love is cooking and But they were so pretty and you know, I like wearing them when we have dinner parties and I didn't really want to get paint and glitter and stuff all over it. So I thought I'll just make one But I have no budget for it So what do I have that I can use for my stash or what's in the garage that I already have to make a good durable denim apron and my husband had just got done cleaning out his closet and Had a bag of old jeans that had holes in them. He was gonna get rid of and Like bulbs went off in my head and I said ooh denim works really well. It's really thick. It's really durable. I Like that idea So I took my favorite kitchen apron and I made a pattern from it Which I'll show you in a minute and I'll walk you through how to do that And I'm gonna show you step-by-step how I made the apron and what I used You only need a few things of course a sewing machine With your sewing machine as I've said in other videos you really should have denim needles These are thick thicker and sharper than a regular sewing machine needle So they're going to go through all the layers of denim with relative ease I use these a lot as I've said previously in other videos Because the most of my sewing anymore is dressed not dress making It's making our journal covers out of canvas and doing denim aprons and stuff like that So I use these a lot You're also going to need a sharp pair of fabric scissors of course a pair of blue jeans Some tennis balls. I know you don't get that but you will admit in a little bit Some ribbon or strips of fabric that you can use for the straps This happens to be like a thick row grain ribbon. It's like an inch and a half wide This is a 25-yard spool. It's from harvest import. I've posted their link before I'll try to remember to post it below the video again I get if you have a seller's permit or a resale number They're great to get stuff like this from You also need a pillowcase this one I took is a king size and in the hem I Cut some holes in it and put some string and I know you don't understand why you need that but you will And I'll go through that in a minute. I'm gonna get everything set up and change the camera angle and I'll be back Okay, so here's my pattern pieces This is the apron body piece This here is cut this side this whole side on the on a fold We'll go over that in a minute. I had a person I made one for Before that requested she liked the pockets up here, but she also wanted a pocket down here And I got real interested in doing the idea of like a sweatshirt pocket So I took one of my favorite sweatshirts that had a big pocket on the front I made this so now I have this pocket piece which you can cut out of the spare denim and put down here If you need feel like you need extra pockets. She was using hers. I think for gardening or something I don't use mine for that but a lot of the people who buy them from me do it makes a great gardening apron So anyway, if you want to add an additional pocket You know feel free if you've got a couple pair of jeans cut the back pockets off and down at the bottom down here I Took one of my favorite kitchen aprons that fit me really well and I traced it out on a piece of this Board and that's my pattern I figured out for me how long the next strap needed to be and the ties in the back And I made note of that on here turns out there are pretty good lengths for most people so For the next strap you need one piece that's 24 inches long and for the ties you need two that are at least 30 now If you're a little taller than me, I'm not real tall Thinner maybe the straps are too long, you know a little curvier. Maybe they're not long enough Just adjust them to fit what you need This is perfect for me Every time I make one and I change Something or add something I make note right on my pattern Which is another reason I've made it out of board because I've made a lot of these and I kind of realized right way I probably was gonna end up making more than one So I've made another pocket before that's just a straight pocket across the front and it was 13 by 12 Pocket placements normally about nine inches up from the bottom and center You just have to play with it whatever notes work for you right and right on your pattern piece And of course right what the pattern is on there because you know I forget so I I think I would figure out it's an apron, but Anyway, this is you could use poster board cardboard I've said in previous videos. I worked in retail and a lot of retail Stores at the end of the season like Halloween When they're putting out their Christmas stuff the Halloween signs go in the trash They're usually made out of this thin It's like the weight of poster board, but it's this plastic e-material anyway I just always ask for a few pieces. They usually don't mind giving them to you because they're throwing them away And they make great pattern pieces but you know any cardboard box that you happen to have or You know go out and get a couple pieces of poster board I always have stuff like this laying around so make your pattern pieces get your jeans and everything else together And we'll be back Okay, so we've got our pair of jeans This is I believe another pair of my husband's old jeans I don't know exactly where they came from because now people just give me jeans now So you want to cut the top of the cut the legs off Right at the crotch or right below the crotch just cut both legs off Okay, set the top of the pants aside I'm a couple inches below the inch or so inch and a half below the pocket That's kind of what you want, but set this aside. Don't throw it away Okay, so now we have our two pant legs Sometimes on the jeans you'll have one hem that looks like this and then you'll have one That looks like this We're gonna split the let the pant legs open to make them lay flat Leave this seam intact if you have one of these on your pant leg and cut the other one If you have two of these which I have never seen When you split the pant leg open cut this off We'll go over that. I'll show you what I mean So you're gonna just pick a seam I usually do the inside seam and Just split the pant leg open Go all the way up the seam It doesn't have to be perfectly straight Okay, so then you would have a nice flat piece of fabric if you had one of those double Double-dover seams here then then you should cut it off because that's gonna be way too much fabric for what we're gonna do And you're not gonna be able to ever sew through it So anyway, this one's fine. It doesn't have that you need a good sharp pair of scissors for this because if you have dull scissors It's not gonna cut through Okay, lay your two pieces of fabric. Oh by the way, you need pins Lay your two pieces of fabric face up both hems facing down Just like they would be if they were still on the pants Okay, so you're gonna overlap your two pant legs See if I can get this on camera. So here's one pant leg and I'm gonna lay the other one over it. I'm overlapping a good three or four inches and Then pin it together Go back to this part so We are going to cut these open so first cut the crotch open Then take your pant top and I want you to cut remove the back from the front and I want you to cut it To the back side of the side seam So I don't I want you to cut the rivet off and Leave the seam attached to the front of the pants Because again, that's going to be too much bulk But what we're gonna want to do with it? Okay, now you're probably thinking. Okay. Now this is trash No, no, no, no, don't throw this away because I'll show you at the end something else you can make out of this Okay, so if you're a neat-knit with your sewing whether you're a beginner or not you are gonna want to Sew this and then and then do the step I'm gonna do now I tend to be a lazy impatient crafter So I like doing things all at once. So I'm gonna not sew this. It's just pinned and Where I've put the pins is where I'm gonna sew it and Where those pins are is where I want this center seam center back seam or approximately It doesn't have to be exact What I want to do though first before I pin it and sew it is make sure Sometimes you get a really short pair of jeans and you want to make sure that the apron after you cut it out It's going to be long that the piece of fabric is going to be long enough In this case, I there's plenty of room So just lay it along your center back seam because that's gonna be the fold that you're gonna cut it on and make sure you Have enough room for the bottom of the apron in this case Like I said, I'm I'm pretty short and I make all my aprons about the same size. Nobody's complained yet and This is plenty long enough and as I'm saying that I'm thinking you might want to know some dimensions so this pattern piece is about 28 inches long Across the top right here. It is Four and a half inches now keep in mind that this pattern piece is cut so that you have to cut the piece on the fold so across the top would be nine and then the pattern piece and About the waist is 12 inches across So the finished apron piece would be 24 and then the bottom hem of the pattern piece is About 13 and a half so the bottom apron hem would be about 27 and then You have the curve here where it goes up underneath the arm if you're a big a little bit bigger busted You might you want to adjust this part? Make it a little wider Make start with your top a little wider and make the curve less sharp So that you cover this up. I have a couple aprons that like in right here. It's not a good spot Okay, so now we're gonna pin our Paint our are bought back of the pants on when we sew it You'll notice this and see if I can get it in camera because maybe you don't notice Okay, notice this is sticking up. This is where the crotch was so we're gonna sew up here Because we're gonna cut this off So I'm gonna pin it about where I tend to sew it where it's lying nice and flat and then I'm gonna go across Up under right underneath the pockets You don't have to have advanced sewing skills for this. You just have to know how to do a straight stitch and back stitch That's it Maybe a zigzag And it doesn't even have to be real straight Okay, so now we're gonna sew it I'm gonna change the camera angle so you can see what I'm doing and I'll be back Okay, so I just have some plain off-white thread in my machine. I've got my denim needle on You can use any color thread if you want to do blue red, whatever. I just tend to always do off-white So the first thing I'm gonna do is sew where I have the pins where the two pant legs are pinned together I'm gonna sew right about where I have the pins as soon as I reach my presser foot Make sure you back stitch at the beginning in the end when you get up here where the seat the pants back is pinned to the pant legs lift this flap up and Sew right up to where you have your pin now. We're gonna attach the Pants back to the legs. So again, we're gonna I'm gonna start at one side of The back of the pants. I'm gonna sew right about where I have my right next to where I have my pins And I'm gonna back stitch in the beginning and the end And go all the way across you have to do a little trimming before we do anything else Okay, so first take all your pins out Trim off your threads as you go When you come across them One of the things about working in the garage. I like if you just throw the thread on the floor okay So first go to the back of the apron and like I said before if you're a neat dick You want to trim all this business off? You want to do the bottom first trim it off then do the top trim it off I'm lazy. So and it really in the long run doesn't make any difference. Which way you do it Just make sure you trim it off. So you have all this extra fabric Up here where the back is sewn to the legs. So you don't need that. So we're gonna trim that off. I Trim it to about a half an inch This is denim. So yes, it's gonna unravel a little bit, but it's not gonna come apart You don't need to worry about zigzag Pinking finishing your seam. It is not gonna make a difference in the long run Okay, then you always have this on the back where the two legs overlapped So now we're gonna cut this off and I got a little bit of it caught in the seam So I'm gonna open it back up and then cut it off Now when you get to the top You're gonna see this So just like the other part. I just leave a half inch And cut it off So it looks like that and that's gonna be good enough again If you're a neat dick and that bothers you do the legs first trim it then attach the top then trim it now It's time to cut out our basic apron shape. So now you have this big piece of fabric So we're gonna cut out our apron shape first. We're gonna trim the front so on the front you want to be a little more careful how you trim a Semi straight line fairly even About a half an inch cut this business off where it went Where it was the crotch of the pants because you don't need that and Come up Just like on the back underneath here. You have this big piece so lift up This part from the back of the pants Trim it to about a quarter of an inch There we go and then Trim this whole seam so it's about a half an inch Why take your big piece and fold it in half along the back the seam for the back of the pants See how something looks like that Okay, let's see if I can back you up a little bit so you can see better. That's better. Okay So now we have it's folded in half So we're gonna take our pattern piece and we're gonna place this part Along the fold This is our top of our apron, which is where we want our belt loops to be Right, so we're gonna match that up To the belt loops The waistband is gonna be the top of your apron, so you don't need to cut that off a sharpie marker sharpie marker Trace loosely around the outside of your pattern. Okay Now cut your pattern out making sure you cut off the sharpie marker Don't throw this away. This is garbage. It's gonna be a little hard when you cut through the pockets and everything There's a lot of fabric there, but if you have a nice sharp hair scissors, it'll it'll happen. Just take your time with it There we go That's garbage Now we have our basic shape of our apron see what happened I'm gonna cut this tag off because that's gonna bug me Okay, so now we're gonna Stitch about a half an hour half an hour half an inch away from the edge All the way around the cut edges of the apron I'm gonna turn the camera so you can see what I'm doing Maybe Maybe not. Okay. One of the many reasons we're gonna do that is so when we Do the final step It doesn't go too far, but also now that we've cut some of the pocket off It's gonna flap and we don't want that so so at about a half an inch Away from the edge just do a regular straight seam back stitch at the beginning Go all the way around your apron till the other side All the way down the both sides Across the bottom up the other side and then back stitch again Stopping and doing a sharp turn and I'm doing a curved stitch. Whatever ways easier for you It doesn't make a difference in the long run whether your stitching is got a sharp corner or a rounded corner But you're coming in the house, but there's nobody back there. I don't know it's weird This is on the apron that have a lot of denim You're less likely to break a needle that way And even though this is a denim needle They can break and they do get stuck so Just be careful. Okay, so now We have this It's all stitched All the way around Right, we have this seam here in the front and there's one in the center Okay So what you're gonna do You're gonna take your scissors and you're gonna take your apron and you're gonna trim up to Trim you're gonna cut a slit up to that stitching line about every half an inch all the way around and also here and On on on this seam too. Don't do it on the back. You don't need to just on the front No wider than that It doesn't have to be perfect. You don't need to measure it just eyeball it It's funny. I keep saying how it doesn't need to be perfect because if you guys knew me I'm a total perfectionist about some things. This is not one of them I guess even as perfectionists have to let some things go Just make sure you don't go over the stitching line And if you do you need to go re back and restitch that part this one This one's easier because you just kind of push the scissors in until you get the seam Snip it do the same thing here where the two pant legs are attached together. Okay, it's all snipped now This is where the tennis balls come in handy So what you want to do next with your denim apron is I did never see the point of bothering to hem it because it's denim I really like the look of rabble denim So I went ahead and did the snipping like we just did and then what it does Is it raffles and the more you wash it the more you wear it the more it raffles But it's not going to go past the stitching line Mine is totally covered in paint. I think it gives it character. But anyway, so The first time I made these I wash it in machine it unraveled it looked great But the the threads. Yeah, they clocked the wash machine That was expensive it was like two hundred dollars don't call the machine so that was an expensive lesson So what you want to do is if you're going to make stuff like this out of denim always always always put it in a bag This is like I said a king-size pillowcase Throw in a cup of some tennis balls They wash just fine and it'll help agitate the denim and help it rabble more so throw those in throw your denim in Use your string to close the top and then wrap it around and tie it off and wash it and dry it in the bag Okay, after we I'm going to do that with my denim and When we come back, I will show you how to put the straps on First I'm going to show you what you can do with the pieces So we have this part and we have the front There are a couple more things you can do with these and you could throw them in with the apron and wash them and and get The edges of them to rabble to I never waste anything if I can help it So I'm going to get my pattern pieces out for that and I'll show you how to do that real quick Then I'll wash everything and we'll come back Okay, so I have this other pattern piece. It looks like a D Made out of that same plasticky stuff so Has a lot of writing on it So anyway, so you know those crochet kitchen towels they have the crochet tops you see McRath fairs usually somebody's grandma's made it They're handy, but they're not Super cute or modern. I mean, they're okay. I've made a few They just didn't really fit in with my house and what I wanted so I thought why can't I make the top part out of denim? I've got denim That works for me So I did so you can get one Towel topper out of the front of the pair of jeans. I'll show you how So first pull your pockets up out of the way Fold it in half and right here is a great flat piece of fabric that this is going to fit on Trace around it with your Sharpie and cut it out Make sure like with the apron that you cut the sharp sharpie pen off So now you have your two pieces for the top of your towel But nothing to hang it by There's always a loop right with the button. What about this button? So we're going to cut this off You want about three or four inches on either side of the zipper Cut off the belt loop because you don't need that Cut above the rivet. We don't want the rivets on there and cut off the zipper Cut right up against the seam of the waistband and that should get everything off that you don't want but this off so now We have a loop we can hang our towel by So we're going to sew this in here like that The other thing you can do with this is you can make Potholders, which I've done and I use Sometimes just this part Sometimes I use a back pocket and then on one side and then a Piece of a pant leg like this on the other and you just cut a little strip of denim for a loop and in between There's a kind of insulation called interfacing batting Called it's a bright and it's for making Potholders And it looks like bad cotton batting, but it has metal looks like aluminum foil in the middle and This is big enough for a hot pad And I like to put the back pockets on one side because then you can use it for oven mitt So you could do that too Let me show you how I sew this together and I'll be back Okay, I before I do some sewing I found my other pattern piece. This is for the Potholder I Have some notes on here says cutstrap eight inches long and half inch wide Approximately Two layers of denim one layer of inso bright. This is inso bright So it looks like batting only it has it looks like it has aluminum foil in it. It's heat resistant And this is what I use one or two layers of between the denim So I'm going to cut that out and then we'll sew everything together Right sides together See which way it fits on her better. So we're going to be a seam on here So I would rather the seam was in the middle than at one of the edges Pocket off of something else. So it's not exactly the right big enough for the Potholder, but that's okay I'm going to just trim it to fit This is an approximate Suggestion of size doesn't have to be exact Again If you do wrong sides together that you don't have to worry about cutting off the Sharpie marker But if you're drawing on the right side you do In this case I drew on the wrong side So I don't care if the Sharpie Marker gets cut off or not necessarily Pocket is probably off a parent apron. I made where they didn't they didn't want this on the top I could get that request occasionally. I don't understand it, but I get it Okay, so we've got our two layers for our Potholder I'm gonna just use the grid on my table to cut a strip Half inch to an inch wide no more than that. You don't want it too big And then for the insulbrite So when you cut the insulbrite, I use the same pattern piece And I trace around it, but I want to cut it a little bit smaller Inside the line kind of significantly inside the line not too not too much You're gonna trim it if it shows afterwards anyway But like a quarter inch inside the line That's probably still not enough. It's probably still gonna show I'm probably gonna still need to trim it Now we have that so now I'm gonna change the camera angle and we're gonna do some sewing layer your Potholder Now with wrong sides together with the insulbrite in between and Then in one corner one top corner of the pocket take your strap Piece and place that in the corner couple inches into the corner So you have a piece like this And then we're gonna sew all the way around the edge and sew it all together I'll be back Okay So we'll do the Potholder first It doesn't matter where you start just make sure that you Backstitch at the beginning and at the end Sew a quarter inch to a half inch away from the edge Don't sew the pocket closed. That's the point of having the pocket on there so that you can open it I tend to use the edge of my presser foot for a guide and that's about a quarter of an inch Make sure as you're going that you're catching all three layers And you notice it made me jump The noise you also don't want to get the pieces of broken needle in your eye I've done that before it doesn't feel good and that was with a denim needle So imagine what would have happened probably while making the apron with a regular needle I went over a piece of the denim that was too thick So you want to be really careful It was too thick even for the denim needle and I was probably going a little bit too fast. I Admit it Okay, so this one Thankfully you did it at the end. So this is all sewn together all the way around Now that we're now we're gonna do this one. So on the top Center of the curved part. This is where you want to put this Waistband piece you don't want to sew across the bottom flat. We're gonna leave that open But what we are going to do first is sew about a half an inch in on the bottom of each one of these on the straight part On this part. I'm gonna sew up. So a stitching line in about a half an inch Nope, it's still bungee some things wrong with the way the machine's threaded now, so I'm gonna fix it and I'll be back Hi guys, okay Broken needle has a problem with the thread tension, but it's all fixed now. I think Okay, so I'm gonna sew across the straight end Back stitching at the beginning of the end on both pieces You'll notice I didn't cut my thread half inch up from the straight edge And then they're going to be connected cut them apart and then put wrong sides together And in the center of the curved part to insert your little piece of waistband So it's in a couple of inches Okay, we're gonna hold these all together and we're gonna sew just around this part We're gonna leave this straight part open so start at one corner and go all the way around the curve and End at the other corner and make sure you back stitch at the beginning at the end If you're the type that needs to pin it, that's fine. I've said it before I'll say it again I'm a lazy crafter and so if I can get away. It's not paying something. I will When you go over these wave waistband pieces offset them just a little bit and go slow because it is really bulky And you don't want to have an evil break or something like that piece where it's still bunchy. I'm gonna sew that part again I don't know what's up with the thread tension. It's very weird It's probably time to take my sewing machine in to get it clean Okay, so you're gonna end up with something like that and this part down here. This is open. I'm gonna change camera angles I'll show you how I trim these up and then we're gonna add them to the bag and I'm gonna wash them and I'll be back Okay, so to trim these up For this one for the towel topper do on the bottom on the straight edge do one layer at a time and On the straight edge trim it like just like you did it the apron about a half an inch all the way around I Should say all the way across flip it over and do the other straight edge then trim into each corner Making sure you get any loose bits of thread off as you go and Then also trim all the way around the curve Up to the stitching line about every half an inch or so when you get to where the Wasteband pieces sewn in You have to do one side and then flip it over and do the other side So you don't cut off your waistband Okay, so that one's all trimmed and I add it to our now on the Oven mitt so we left our pocket open so that we can use it as an oven mitt But I want to wash it and fray the edges like I do with the other denim first I want to take and I want to trim this in so bright back Although almost all the way to right to the seam so that there's not so much of it showing so I'm going to pull the two pieces of denim back and Carefully just cut the in so bright don't cut the denim Cut as much of it off as you can without cutting your denim Don't go fast go slow if you have a pair of applique scissors sometimes that they can help when you do this If you don't have those or you don't know what they are don't worry about it Just hold your denim back out of the way Go slow. You only want to trim the in so bright And you just want to trim most of the bulk of it off Like that Now we're gonna take and we're gonna do just like we did on the other pieces and we're gonna cut this Up to the stitching line about every half an inch We're gonna cut a slit because there's a pocket on one side of here Some parts may be bulky So you just want to go slow. You might have to cut one side like right here And then cut the other side Try not to go more than like three quarters of an inch now right here The stitching line is over the top of the pocket. I'm not gonna even cut slips there because it's not gonna rabble I'm gonna start back over here. I only cut the slits in the back piece not in the front piece Slits are all cut Gonna add it to our pillowcase Pull the string tight. This is just some cotton cording. I had I think it might be curtain cording I don't remember anyway. I used what I had Wrap it around a couple times Tie it shut tight in a bow though because you're gonna need to get it open So a bow or a slipknot or something you can undo okay, so now this whole thing goes in the wash and in the dryer and Then after I get that done, I'll be back for me. It's gonna be a day or two for you It'll be just in the blink of an eye and I will show you how to put the straps on your new apron I'll be back. Hi guys. Hey, so it's been a Couple of days for me. It's only been a few seconds for you But after I turn off the camera, I made a few more aprons and some more towel toppers Wash them dried them. Now we're gonna open our bag There's probably gonna be a lot of a lot of lint and fuzz in here So kind of open it carefully I usually open the bag and There's gonna be a lot of this Which is why you put it in a bag Because if you don't put it in a bag all of this goes in your washing machine and it clogs washing machine so usually what I do is I take a pull a piece out kind of shake it give it a shake in the bag It won't get all the lint off, but it'll get some wish I could figure out something to do with all this lint There was something I could recycle it into probably would make good stuffing There's gonna be a lot of it sometimes I'll take this and do it outside So there's usually a lot of lint at the bottom of the bag So I don't know I'm gonna I might start saving some of it I'm thinking it might make good stuffing for a pink cushion or something like that. I Don't know But you have to keep it in the bag. Otherwise, it's gonna clog up your washing machine as I've said before That's a really expensive fix Okay, so here is our oven mitts and It is done. I don't make tons of oven mitts because I don't usually have tons of pockets Usually the pockets end up on apron If I have a pair of jeans That don't have a lot of usable denim in them meaning they have a lot of holes or something and they're in really bad shape And there's not enough to make an apron Those are the ones I usually cut the pockets out of and I make oven mitts. So that one's all done Then we have these towel toppers I'm gonna show you how to finish those off But see what happens when you wash it the edges get nicely frayed. I Like the way that looks of course you have your apron bodies There's still it coming off You can see the amount of lint on the floor. I'm gonna have to get all toppers Um, this is a basket of kitchen towels new kitchen towels. So I buy them when they're on sale or they're on clearance Solid stripes checks pictures whatever strikes my fancy Um, I do find the denim toppers I don't know. I like something more plain usually like a stripe So you need one towel for each topper and I have four of them But when you buy your towels, they're going to come folded like this So what you want to do is you want to run a line of stitching across this fold line right here All the way across from one side to the other side But first I try to make sure I have all the tags off. I cut off the label These are like my dullest pair of fabric scissors Okay So anyway, cut all the tags off all my towels Make sure all the little plastic things are off. Here's what might be on there I usually buy my towels in Like a pack of like four or five usually from like Walmart or Target or Some places I got they usually have the best price Turn the camera a little bit Set your stitch length on your sewing machine to the longest stitch length that you have So that you can gather your towel so you're going to take that line where it was folded in half And we're going to run a A line of stitching all the way across here You're not going to back stitch don't back stitch. You don't want to do that I'm going to go ahead and do all four towels Little space in between each towel if you're doing more than one So that you have some threads to pull When you gather it So pull this out just a little bit. Okay, so now you have your stitching On here You can't see it because we have white on white, but you're going to take one piece of thread There are two here, but only pull on one and just gather it up Pull a little bit from one side And then pull a little bit from the other side until you have this Then I'm going to take one of our denim towel toppers We are going to put the towel inside the little pocket that we made Until it's about An inch or so up in there And then we're going to sew the towel in along this stitching line right here Making sure that you catch the towel and both sides of the denim At the same time It can be a little bit tricky, but if you're worried about it Um use the pins and pin it all together for this Set your stitch length back to Um a normal length on my machine. It's like a three or a four And make sure you back stitch At the beginning and at the end That's how you make a modern hanging towel out of recycled denim So i'm going to finish the rest of my four towels And then I will be back to show you how to finish the aprons I'll be back Okay So here are my hanging towels all done So now i'll show you how to finish off the aprons. So for the apron On my pattern piece you'll remember I wrote some measurements So for each apron I need one piece 24 inches long for the neck and then two pieces 30 inches long for the ties So my Work table here has a cutting mat mat on it with a grid Um when I'm painting on here, I cover it up Protect it, but I like it. I use it for measuring. So I'm going to cut I have four aprons. So I'm going to measure one or that is the same. Hold my husband. I am out of blue jeans now To make aprons with so he has to clean his closets out. I need more jeans Okay, so now the same thing for the ties. So I need two that are 30 They don't have to be exact measurements and of course adjust them if those measurements don't work for you Um, but keep in mind when you're cutting them, they don't have to be exact Longer though is better than shorter You can always make it shorter. You can't make it longer I like this ribbon because it's just a plain like a grow grain Like a wide grow grain ribbon It comes in colors, but I find myself using this off-white color more than anything one more Isn't this exciting so I'll show you on my apron that's finished So you want to So one of the ties here. This is the top of your apron. There's This is where it curves a little bit. So one tie goes here Then the neck piece goes on either side of this part And then the other tie goes here I do these all at once without cutting the thread And then I go back And I sew the ribbon in half and I tuck the raw ends in You can tell this is my working apron. It's really dirty. I should wash it sometime um So anyway, I'm gonna change camera angles again and we'll go back to the sewing machine and I'll show you how I do that I'll be back Okay So now I have two of my two ties That are close to me and handy I've got an apron front. This is the part I was talking about. So one tie goes right here This is the side of the apron and this is the part that goes up under your arm and then this is the top right here So we're gonna start here at this corner And when I'm sewing the ties on I fold the raw edge under a little bit Use a regular stitch length like on my machine again. That's usually between three and four I can forth a few times. This is gonna You know, hold all the weight of the apron on the ties and the neck strap. So you want it to last Three or four times then take your neck piece and we're going to go up to this part where the neck piece gets sewn on We're not going to trim the thread. We're going to just pull it out a little bit I'm going to do the same thing. I'm going to fold the raw edge under and stitch it down um next strap out And make sure it's even and flat so that when you bring it around to sew it to the other corner, it's not twisted That's the only trick to this part if you feel more comfortable Using pins then by all means pin this all together before you bring it to the sewing machine So that you know exactly where everything's going to go and then it's going to fit right for you I got to my other side corner you can pull it out and then you can trim all your threads I am going to do my other three aprons and then I will show you how I Finish it up. I'll be back Okay, so I have one of my aprons. I've got my two ties. I've got my neck strap So now what I'm going to do is on the next strap I'm going to start an inch or two above Here the top of the apron and I'm going to just fold it And then stitch that closed and go from here all the way around to the other side And on the side straps All I did Was I tucked this raw edge under And then folded it in half made sure all the loose frayed edges are caught inside And then stitch it shut And go about the same go all the way up to about here On and do that on both side ties and the neck strap On all my aprons And again, I tend to do it without cutting any Threads, I don't know if that really saves time again. I'm just a lazy crafter I think is a regular stitch length and just hold the ribbon two sides together with your fingers You shouldn't have to pin it, but if you feel you need to of course do so making sure to Back stitch or back tack at the beginning and at the end last one and trim all your threads Nice crafting or gardening apron. Maybe even a barbecue apron So there you go. That's what I do with my old jeans husband's old jeans I do sell them in arts and craft shows. They're a pretty good seller Along with the towel toppers and the hot the potholders when I have pockets enough to make some What do you think you could make with old jeans? I'd like to see Um post your comments below and I will try to remember to post links to useful websites like harvest imports and where I got the ribbon from And um That's it for today. I'll talk to you later. Bye All right, that's it. I hope you enjoyed the video You can do lots of things with like things like old blue jeans And you can make tote bags out of old t shirts and old dress shirts and just look at what's around you You can make journals out of junk mail and you can reuse what you have without going out and buying stuff You don't have to always buy stuff to make great art and fun things. All right That's it for today. Don't forget to go out and have a great day Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later