Any needlewoman wants the interior of her home to be original and distinctive. For this purpose, various decorative elements, homemade decorations, pillows, tablecloths, etc. are made. One of such creative areas is a do-it-yourself bedspread from old things. It is usually made from scraps of fabric or damaged clothes. Recently, it has become popular to make bedspreads from old jeans. This material will consider how to sew a bedspread from old jeans and what is needed for this.
- What Beginner Craftswomen Need to Know
- Patchwork styles and patterns for making a bedspread from old material
- Sewing tools
- Bedspread or blanket: sewing from denim or just old jeans
- Unraveling denim items
- We lay out the blanks
- We adjust the blocks to size
- Sewing
- What other things can be made from jeans
- What other old things can be used to sew a bedspread?
What Beginner Craftswomen Need to Know
Making a blanket or bedspread with your own hands is quite easy. The thing is that the method of joining pieces of fabric is similar to a regular patchwork mosaic. However, to get a high-quality and beautiful product, you need to strictly follow the sequence of work.
First of all, you need to choose what exactly the bedspread will be made of, what tools are needed for this. This is done so that during the sewing process everything is in its place, and the person does not look for the necessary devices. After this, you should decide on the sewing pattern of the future product.
Experienced craftswomen recommend looking at various patterns for creating a patchwork blanket and choosing the one you like best, or making your own based on them. Those who are doing this for the first time should choose the simplest patterns that do not require any special skills. Such products will be no worse than professionally made ones.
Important! All old clothes should be brought to normal condition before sewing: washed and ironed. Washing, if done in a machine, should be delicate and low temperature. This is done so that the old material does not lose its structure.
Patchwork styles and patterns for making a bedspread from old material
For any of the craftsmen - from beginners to professionals - their own styles of stitching pieces into a canvas have been invented. Each type has its own characteristics and speed of making the final product. The following popular patchwork styles are distinguished:
- Traditional style. Ideal for beginners who are just trying their hand. The style involves gradually sewing together denim pieces using a simple machine stitch. The result can be geometric shapes and patterns that were previously conceived;
- Quick square. Also easy to make and does not require any special skills. For it, rectangles are taken from several fabrics and sewn along the long side, and the rest is hemmed to the resulting length.
- Watercolor style. A more complex and time-consuming option: pieces are connected in a certain sequence of colors to get a picture or pattern. It is important to achieve a gradual change in shades of one or more colors.
- Sewing on strips. The finished fabric will consist of strips of old jeans, sewn in a certain sequence. This can be a herringbone, zigzag or diamond.
- Triangular style. Isosceles triangles are cut from old material, which merge along the short sides and form variegated stripes.
- Linking of fragments. It does not mean sewing, but rather linking of pieces of jeans. Most often, threads made of natural and acrylic material are used for this.
Sewing tools
Once the pattern has been found and a couple of old jeans or jackets have been prepared, it's time to sort out the tools. Among other things, you'll need:
- Lining fabric;
- Strong threads and thick needles;
- Tailor's scissors or any other sharp scissors;
- Paws and pins, awl;
- Sewing machine (with it the process will take much less time);
- Pattern (diagram), chalk, ruler or tape measure.
Important! This is far from a complete list of tools that may be needed during production, but in some cases you can even limit yourself to an even smaller set.
Bedspread or blanket: sewing from denim or just old jeans
Most likely, everyone has old jeans in their closet, maybe more than one, it's a pity to throw them away, but there's nothing to do with them. This article tells you exactly what to do with such unnecessary things. A bedspread is ideal for this: it will fit into almost any modern and bold interior. You won't even be ashamed to give such a product as a gift. To make such a bedspread, you should follow the step-by-step instructions below.
Unraveling denim items
The first thing you need to do with the pants after washing and ironing is to rip them open and unpick all the pockets. You also need to remove the fly, zipper, and pull tab from the fabric. You won't need the cuffs and waistband when making them: you need even and uniform pieces of fabric. This is what you'll end up with from the pants.
We lay out the blanks
It is clear that any such blanket does not require perfectly even and identical pieces or stripes of denim. They should be laid out at your discretion, but in a rough ratio. They can be combined both lengthwise and crosswise. To check whether the product looks normal, you should step back and look at it from afar. This will also allow you to achieve a combination of color shades and the size of the pieces. Until the design is perfect in the opinion of the master, it is worth "playing" with the pieces.
We adjust the blocks to size
Next, you need to adjust all the lines to their size. For this, use the simplest scissors, but they must be sharp. It is necessary to give the blocks and pieces the same shape and length.
Sewing
After all this, you can sew the blocks together. This is done with strong threads by hand or with a sewing machine. In the latter case, the result will be neater and faster. After sewing, you should smooth out the seams and trim the edges, if necessary.
What other things can be made from jeans
If a person has experience in such handicrafts, then you can offer, for example, to knit a rug from jeans. To do this, the fabric is cut into very small strips and a rug is knitted using a hook. Denim decorations on wallets and purses, denim cases for cell phones and tablets also look good.
Important! Recently, a type of handicraft has become fashionable, when old clothes, including denim, are used to make handbags with many pockets. They are sewn from the same pieces or knitted like a rug.
What other old things can be used to sew a bedspread?
In addition to jeans, you can choose absolutely any material. A T-shirt made of durable and lightweight fabric, a scarf, an old scarf or shorts that have become small or worn out will do. When working in the patchwork style, you can use absolutely any rag.
Thus, it was analyzed how to sew a bedspread from old jeans with your own hands. In fact, as was said above, you can use absolutely any other material. Patchwork in a simple style is within the power of even the most inexperienced craftswomen.
