 this is for the next upcycling video, just FYI. All right, so we are gonna work on a pair of dad pants, what I'm calling dad pants. I'm calling them dad pants because these are actually my dad's old pants. He was going to be donating them. He had gotten new pants and he said before he donated them, do you want him? Can you do anything with him? Otherwise I'm gonna donate him. I said, I'll take them. I didn't think I was going to be making wearable stuff out of them, but I am. Fun fact, my dad are similar size, short and stature, and all that stuff, short legs, very Italian. That's what I can say about that. I have lots of Italian jeans in me. So, I learned how to do this from Tracy Meyer's YouTube channel. I will link her channel down below. She has lots of upcycling clothing videos, including some about doing pants and blue jeans in particular, so go check her channel out. But I started off by ripping open the side seam. Now, I only did it up to the pocket because it would be too hard to reattach this after we're done and the pants, while a little bit loose on me, aren't that loose and so I didn't want to lose any width. So, I ripped open the seam enough that I can work on the legs and then I sat and I cut out some images from a few different kinds of fabric I have, including some flower rose fabric, something with birds on it, bee fabric, and then this sort of turquoise to add some patches. I also distressed some of the pants, parts of the pants and put some of this fabric behind that, so that'll have to be sewn down. The flower fabric is a pillowcase. The bird fabric are placemats. The bee fabric I actually had to buy because I couldn't find anything that I liked with bees and then this turquoise blue kind of fabric with the dots I had in my stash. So, I sat yesterday, cut everything out, pinned it, rearranged it, pinned it again. So, we're all ready to go. Now, you probably should do this in stages because I think it would be easier, you're less likely to poke yourself, lose a pin. I don't seem to ever do that. I've done two other pair of pants like these. One was sunflower themed and one had a bunch of lace doilies all over it. I'll put pictures here, but what we're going to do now, we're going to do now is take this to the machine and we're going to sew all of these embellishments off at least enough so that we can take the pins out. So, that just means that I'll basically be doing rough stitching around them, sort of my jeans version of a basting stitch, although it's not going to be coming out. I do use a small tight zigzag stitch around all of the fabric pieces, around the patches, and everything else. And then once I get all the pins out and all the pieces sewn down, then we can go back and add stitches just for decoration. The other thing I have to decide is what color thread I'm going to use because the thread's going to show so I usually just go with that. I'm thinking something that's maybe this color, but I don't know. I have to decide. I'll be back. You have things roughly sewn on, and I consider the stitching part of the finished piece. Then we're going to go back and add extra stitching, extra lines over all the images, over the denim, over these parts that I ripped, and then we'll sew the side seams back together. All right, let's get it done. Okay, with a little mini grandson, neighbor kid, furnace maintenance guy break. Because, you know, everything happens at once, right? Got those on my head. Just, you know, it's a thing. All right, we're going to finish the pants. So once you get some sort of extra stitching on there, bring them back to your work table and trim all the threads. And then take a second look at it and make sure you don't want to add anything else. I do see one place where I didn't add any extra stitching where I want to add some. So I'm going to do some trimming and get that done. And I'll be right back. I also see a place that I missed completely. So do a double check before you sew those side seams, because once you sew the side seams, that's all she wrote. All right, I'll be back. Once you're thinking about a little stitching done, go back and double check and make sure you really have all the stitching done. Then it's going to be time to close up those side seams. Now if you do it the way Tracy Myers does it at T. Myers Handmade, she's cut all the way up the side seam and left a half an inch on either side, because most of your blue jeans will have this rivet. So she cuts and opens the whole side seam. And then when she sews it back together, she has the raw edges out, which I've done a couple of times and is interesting. But for the most part on these dad jeans, they aren't that much too big on me. So if I do that, then they're going to be too small. So I'm going to sew up the side seams. But before I do that, I'm going to sew a line of zigzag stitching down this raw edge, because we're not hemming the pants. And we are going to cuff them. So I'll show you how I do that. But first I'm going to do a line of zigzag, probably like a half inch from this raw edge. Then I'm going to sew the side seams up. Now my tips for you, if you're going to do something like this with denim especially, use a denim or jeans needle. I'm using a small zigzag stitch for this. That's what works the best for me for this, to attach all of this on. I'm not being super neat about it, because again, the stitching for me is part of the decoration of the finished pair of pants. And as you can see on this close up shot, none of the fabric has like it's not hemmed. So when I wash it, it's going to fray. I like that. All right, let's get the bottom done and the side seams closed up. And then I'll show you how I hem them. Well, how I cuff them, because I'm not having them. All right, let's get it done. Now it's time to try them on and double check where I want the little cuff to be. And I usually put a pleat down there, a little tuck, if you will, at the outside seam. So time to put them on and do some pinning, just a couple of minutes. Probably good to not poke yourself and get blood on the pants. Although you are about to wash them, so it'll probably come out. Just saying. All right, so they fit as expected. So I'm not going to sew it and cuff it all the way around. Literally, I'm just going to fold it like that. And I'm just going to sew it right here, where the little tuck is. And then as I wash them, they make, you know, the cuff will fall, that'll fray. That's fine. I want them to look raggedy. So, all right, let's get it sewn. And then we're done. We just need to wash them. Okay, all done. Now we just need to wash them so that they fray, trim any long bits. And then that's it. Well, I'm cleaning up after myself because working with denim and jeans, there's like bits of thread and fuzz everywhere. You guys, the pants are done and frayed and dry. Would you like to see? Maybe you can make some, but you also could do this on a journal cover, a wall hanging, like you could do anything with it. You could do another bag of a denim jacket. Make yourself some fine clothes. Because why not? Life's way too short.