Bag of jeans with your hands in the form of a bag
Paper grocery bags with flat bottom up toare still in great demand all over the world, especially in the USA and Western Europe. Such bags were invented and patented by Luther Crowell back in 1870. The bags were initially plain, beige-brown, later they began to print pictures and advertisements. Even later, handles appeared on the bags, but they did not change their shape. In 1957, stronger and cheaper polyethylene bags entered the market, displacing paper ones. And after a few decades, the global environmental problem with polyethylene waste became obvious. This short excursion into the history of the paper bag smoothly leads us to today's DIY craft - a kind of linen alternative to the bag - a DIY denim bag! In fact, a bag of this type can easily be carried in everyday life, having attached handles. But the authors of the project initially considered it precisely as a replacement for a paper or polyethylene bag on shopping trips.
So, in order to get a bag fromjeans with your own hands, we will need: unnecessary jeans, a belt, threads, a needle or a sewing machine. It is worth noting that the size of the finished bag depends on the initial data, that is, on a pair of jeans. It is not recommended to use children's or tight skinny jeans, unless you want to get a cosmetic bag or a pencil case for office supplies as a result. The main stages of the work are shown in the photo below.
Lay out the pant leg and estimate the future sizebags in a folded basic form. To do this, bend the bottom edge of the leg (the top of the bag) to the desired length, mark where the bottom of the bag will be, and then boldly cut off the leg (photo 2). Take the strap, attach the buckle to the "entrance" of the bag in the folded basic form and cut off the rest of the belt near the "bottom" (photo 3, 9). Let the size of the part with the buckle be at least 10 cm. Sew the belt to the front of the bag, close to the bottom edge (bottom). Now turn the leg inside out (photo 4). Sew the bottom along the edge by hand or on a sewing machine (photo 5), and then stitch the corners as in photo 6. With this line, you adjust the width of the bottom of the bag. Estimate this parameter in advance. If you do not make this corner line, the bag will be flat. It remains to sew on the "tail" of the strap. Remember that a DIY denim bag can be made taller if necessary, but the strap should be able to fasten. Expand the top of the bag to its maximum length, attach the strap to the middle of the back of the bag and mark the length. Cut off any excess. If necessary, finish making holes in the strap (photo 7). Sew on the strap (photo 8). This option does not include handles, as it was intended as a bag-package. But absolutely nothing prevents you from sewing one long handle over the shoulder, and you can make it either from jeans or from another belt. A backpack option is also possible. The scope for creativity and improvements is limitless! And most importantly, making such a bag from jeans with your own hands is very simple and quick.
