Do you have an old pair of jeans? Don’t throw them away but reuse them to realize a fashionable and eco-friendly bag. Let’s see what you need and some easy step to do that:

You need:
- One old pair of jeans (size doesn’t matter)
- One old belt (minimum length 80 cm)
- 50 cm of printed fabric, 110 cm or 140 cm wide (heavy cotton or fake fur)
- Assorted thread, pencil, ruler, scissors and pins

First step: cut off the legs of the jeans at crotch level, then unpick the crotch seam.

Second step: cutting the printed fabric, then fold in half in parallel with the longer side of the fabric. Sew up the sides of the fabric by turning it inside-out and then stitching 1.5cm from the edges and create two straight seams across the top of the fabric.

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After showing you cool pieces of furniture made of recycled denim fabric, today we’d like to show you an original and functional accessory: a laptop case created from a pair of recycled jeans.

The cool case, created by Betty Mathers, maintains both the front and rear pockets providing storage for CDs, cables, a mouse, and more.
Certainly durable – it’s lined and padded for extra protection – this denim case is also definitely more than stylish enough to be used as an everyday shopping bag.

Do you like it?

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