Tutorial: Turn jeans upside down to make a jacket

Cristi from In the Mood for Couture turns a pair of jeans upside down, turning them into a cute new jacket. There is very little waste with this project. She uses the top part of the jeans as the body of the jacket (the waistband remains the waistband, just upside down), and cuts sleeves out of the bottom portion of the legs. Because of the way the zipper fly runs into the crotch of the jeans, the jacket doesn’t actually zip or unzip off. You’ll need to pull it over your head like a t-shirt. If you want to make the contrast panel on the front (the part that looks like a shirt layered underneath), you’ll need to use denim from another pair of jeans or perhaps a panel of fabric from your stash. Go to In the Mood for Couture for the tutorial.

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