Denim Flowers Barrette

Upcycle an old pair of jeans scraps into a flowerly barrette.

Posted by KMOM14

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You Will Need (7 things)

  • Jeans scraps (5 12 x 12 inches square pieces)
  • Scissors
  • Pen(s)
  • Cardboard
  • Needle & Thread
  • Hot Glue Gun
  • Barrette blank

Steps (6 steps, 30 minutes)

  1. 1

    The scraps were taken from one of the legs of this pair of scraggly old jean.

  2. 2

    he principal for making the flowers here is the same as the rolled paper flowers here:
    http://craftsandcreationswithkathy.blogspot.com/2009/12/rolled-flowers.html

    For the two outer flowers, I cut 2 12 inch x 12 inch squares from one of the legs and stacked them on top of each other, right sides up, flipped them over and on the wrong side of the fabric drew a spiral like the one below on where the spirals were about an inch wide. For the center flower, I only used one layer of fabric.

  3. 3

    I then cut out the spirals and rolled them starting with the inner spiral outward and would stitch the layers loosely with a needle and thread. Here is the bottom view of the rolled flowers.

  4. 4

    I put the barrette blank on a piece of cardboard and drew around it with a pen, making it slightly larger than the barrette and then cut it out.

  5. 5

    I put the flowers with the 2 layers on each end and the one with 1 layer in the center, scrunched them together then glued the bottom of the flowers to the cardboard.

  6. 6

    I then glued the cardboard to the barrette blank.