Create A Blue Jean Banner for Special Celebrations

by Sue's Creative Workshop

6 Materials

$10

2 Hours

Medium

“Celebrate” with a Banner made from old blue jeans.

A great way to recycle those worn out jeans.

Create a banner using Joy Embroidered Iron On Letters and old blue jeans.

Got any old worn blue jeans ready to be thrown out?

I started with my old blue jeans and 3″ Iron-on Embroidered Varsity Letters from Joy in red and blue.

I created a 3 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ banner pattern using grid paper and traced it onto the jeans.
To add a little interest…I incorporated the seams from the sides of the jeans to use for the front of the banner.
For the word “C-E-L-E-B-R-A-T-E” I cut 9 banners for the front with seams and 9 plain ones to use to line the back of the banner.
The Iron-on Embroidered Varsity letters are sticky backed so I went ahead and placed them onto the front of my banners before sewing.

Next came my jar of red ribbon scraps.

(I love red so much, I have a jar just for “red”)

I sewed the ribbon scraps onto the tops of each banner.
I then sandwiched the front with a plain back and simply sewed around each banner with my sewing machine. After the third banner, I finally got smart and started using straight pins.

As you can tell, I was going for a casual simple look.

(that’s my story and I’m sticking to it)

After I was finished sewing all my banners, I used my We R Memory Keepers Crop-A-Dile* (*affiliate link) to punch the holes. I used the 3/16″ sized hole.
I used We R Memory Keepers Eyelets Cool Metal* for my eyelets.

Did you know that the Crop-A-Dile easily goes through both layers of jeans.