Recycled Denim Pocket


Last week I made a wreath out of old blue jeans. I used some of the leftovers from that project to make a hanging pocket for this week's project. 


When I was cutting and tearing up the blue jeans to make my wreath last week, I saved out the pockets on all of the jeans. I wasn't quite sure what I'd do with them, but I figured they were worth saving. I decided to try hanging one of the pockets up, so I used a piece of the seam edging and glued it to the edges of the pocket with hot glue.


If you had an eagle eye in last week's post, you may have noticed that one of the flowers that I featured, I didn't end up using on the wreath. I made this flower out of more of that seam edging rolled up. As I rolled the strip of fabric up (while gluing it with more hot glue), I angled the fabric just a bit to create a domed appearance.

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I also used a couple of the leaves that I dyed with alcohol ink (thinned the ink with a little bit of rubbing alcohol and painted it on).


I put laid out my flower and leaves before I glued them on. I had a few other flowers leftover, so I asked my husband if I should add anymore--he thought it looked good with the one--so I left it simple.


So I glued the flower on with a bunch of hot glue and then put a bead of glue next to the flower for each of the leaves.


After the glue set, I picked up my hanging pocket and decided it was a bit floppy (I had planned to use it as a door hanger for outgoing mail, etc...), so I cute a piece of cardboard from a cereal box to slide inside the pocket to make it a bit more rigid.


I used the seams on the back side of the pocket to make sure my cardboard pocket insert would fit.


Once I slid the cardboard into the pocket, it hung perfectly. This little project would make a cute door hanger or an adorable play purse for a toddler. It was a fun way to use up even more of my recycled denim stash.

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