Overview
Just look at the price tag for some designer jeans: they’re over the top! Fortunately, there’s an easy, inexpensive, and fun way to jazz up ordinary denim so it’s virtually red-carpet ready: these techniques for distressing, embroidering, beading, painting, sewing, and studding turn jeans, pants, skirts, and vests into one-of-a-kind high fashion items. Bleach and batik, add appliqué and lace, adorn with doilies and toile, embellish with ruffles and rhinestones, and give garments a leather monogram, western flare, or rows of shisha sequins. For each cool design idea, be it a swirl skirt or funky flowers on a jacket, there’s basic information and a photo, along with projects and patterns. And, for something extra, learn how to transform clothing into fringed bags, pretty pillows, and decorated journal covers!Synopsis
Just look at the price tag for some designer jeans: they’re over the top! Fortunately, there’s an easy, inexpensive, and fun way to jazz up ordinary denim so it’s virtually red-carpet ready: these techniques for distressing, embroidering, beading, painting, sewing, and studding turn jeans, pants, skirts, and vests into one-of-a-kind high fashion items. Bleach and batik, add appliqué and lace, adorn with doilies and toile, embellish with ruffles and rhinestones, and give garments a leather monogram, western flare, or rows of shisha sequins. For each cool design idea, be it a swirl skirt or funky flowers on a jacket, there’s basic information and a photo, along with projects and patterns. And, for something extra, learn how to transform clothing into fringed bags, pretty pillows, and decorated journal covers!
Jan Zlendich - Library Journal
What to do with old jeans or jeans needing a makeover? In this idea book, prolific crafts writer Baskett (Quick & Easy Gourd Crafts) approaches jeans as an artist would a blank canvas. He covers distressing denim with bleach and simple tools; appliquéing on jeans with fabric, beads, studs, and rhinestones; embroidering and painting denim; and making jeans over into skirts, bags, pillows-even a journal, with paper made from scraps of denim. A popular addition to public library sewing collections.
Editorials
Library Journal
What to do with old jeans or jeans needing a makeover? In this idea book, prolific crafts writer Baskett (Quick & Easy Gourd Crafts) approaches jeans as an artist would a blank canvas. He covers distressing denim with bleach and simple tools; appliquéing on jeans with fabric, beads, studs, and rhinestones; embroidering and painting denim; and making jeans over into skirts, bags, pillows-even a journal, with paper made from scraps of denim. A popular addition to public library sewing collections.
—Jan Zlendich