Monday, March 19, 2012

DIY heart style

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My favourite old pair of jeans became my un-favourite pair of jeans after I climbed over a fence and ripped a ginormous hole in the knee. (long [alcoholic] story.) I could have handled a "fashionable rip", but this was more of a left-leg-ventilation system and created a gigantic denim flap. not cute.) Anyway I decided to repair my old treasures.

What you need for jeans-CPR:
  • old jeans, with enormous un-trendy rip
  • felt in two different colours, I used red and grey.
  • scissors
  • cotton
  • needle
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this is a genuine rip people.

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Step one: stitch up the rip using your cotton and needle. Don't worry about getting it perfect.

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Step two: measure the area that the rip covers and mark it off with a pen. Cut a piece of felt to match the size of the pen markings. I chose the grey to be my backing colour and red to be my accent colour.

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Step Three: cut out a heart shape in your accent colour.

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Step Four: Once you have your accent-colour heart, stitch it using cross stitches onto the square colour- I chose grey. Try to keep your spacing between stitches even but it's not a train-smash if it's a little wonky. It all adds character.

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Step Five: Once you have stitched the heart onto your square you can start stitching your square onto your jeans where to cover the pen marks.
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Step Six: Keep going until the whole thing is stitched and make sure you do a double stitch at the end.

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voila!

And here is my highly fashionable fashion-shoot in the garden:
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me climbing in the bushes.

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I got my very lovely-wonderful-helpful and fabulous brother to take some pictures for me.

Brother: Hey, why don't you get in the tree?
Me: No. i can't. it's too high, i'm scared of heights, my shoes aren't really cut out for tree climbing, I can't get up there, what if i fall, how will i get down, i'm too lazy.
Brother: Just do it, it'll be cool.
Me: ok. (succumbs easily to peer pressure. yes.)

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"ok, i've had enough of the tree, i'm coming down."

um....

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yeah. it was high.
i couldn't

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pic caption: if you drop me, i'll kill you.

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look at how beautiful i am in this picture.

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haha. lolz. 

i should do more fashion posts. i'm so very gracious.

7 comments :

A Daft Scots Lass said...

Great Fashion shots!!

Anonymous said...

I really am super fan-flipping-tastically awesome. And you not the only one that can make up words. ;-) love from the brother.

Bailey Schneider said...

BAHAHAHA!! Classic! Love the jeans and those last photos are just brilliant!!

Rhianne said...

hahahahah you should, this is amazing!! 

Emmajane said...

you are totally adorable! and so are your love jeans!

Warr said...

Hahaha, Ché the mooodal - such a cool post & awesome 'new' jean pant ;) x

Beingbrazen said...

Such a cute post :)