Creating art from jeans

Sorting through my fabrics and finding all sorts of pieces that I have created in the past. I found a huge box with pieces created from denim scraps.

When I upcycle a pair of jeans it is broken down into different parts. Strips from the legs, pockets and the belt with the belt loops. From the strips I cut squares and keep the smaller strips that are left over in different sized piles for other projects.

I also keep the jean seams as they become focal points for textile art

The first pieces I created were classical quilts from 6 inch squares

And some matching denim square pillows

Pieces which are too small for squares are cut into rectangles and sewn into a patchwork piece of fabric, which can be used as is or to create a pillow or a bag.

Many diffferent shaded jeans rectangles sewn together to create a new piece of fabric.

Next, smaller squares and rectangles of different shades of jeans are sewn together to create a crumb patchwork jeans piece.

A work of art

A larger jeans crumb patchwork quilt

Crumb pieces are also used to sew home decor - patchwork pillows

A sofa cover and matching crumb patchwork pieces from different shaded denim jeans

The smaller strips that are left over are also used when I am in the mood for creating art from jeans. A wave landscape patchwork piece entirely from different shaded denim strips

A jeans wave landscape patchwork quilted table runner

And last but not least, all of the small pieces are used to sew a patchwork piece of jeans mosaic fabric.

jeans mosaic patchwork art fabric

The smallest of pieces can also be used to create fabric beads

Enough reasons to keep all of the denim pieces when deconstructing a pair of jeans