They say “April showers bring May flowers,” but if the flowers are faux then you can have flowers year round. Earlier this year, I was on social media in one of my fashion groups and stumbled upon this super cute photo of some up-cycled jeans. In the picture, the jeans appeared to have sprouted gorgeous flowers from the legs filled with different varieties of flowers. Being the DIY fashionista that I am, I was instantly inspired and ready for my own personalized floral frock.
The inspirational post.
The up-cycled denim idea prompted me on a thrift store run throughout Los Angeles looking for the right cut of jeans to fit me properly and do this DIY justice. I perused several stores and racks of clothes. I ended up finding some suitable denim jeans in the men’s section of my least favorite thrift store, Goodwill. The jeans fit me correctly how I wanted in the legs, but the waist was too big. I knew that was something I could easily fix myself. I quickly paid my $10 for the jeans and set out on my next mission, the flowers.
Thankfully I already had this idea before the closing of Joann’s Fabrics. I was able to go to Joann’s during their store closing sale and find an assortment of flowers at a decent discount. I bought and brought my bunch of flowers home and got to work.
I was able to complete this no-sew easy up-cycle DIY fashion project in a few hours. The entire process was super easy and straight forward. I wore my flower jeans for the first time to the Black Boy Art Show and received so many compliments from both women and men. I felt like a piece of art myself while wearing my DIY floral jeans.
I love how everything came out and just had to share the project with you. See my step-by- step guide below.
Materials
– Pair of jeans
– Faux flowers
– Fabric rope or shoestring
– Velcro stickers
– Wire cutters
– Glue gun/ Tacky glue
– Scissors/ fabric shears
– Safety pin
– Fabric marker
Directions
- If you purchased oversized jeans and need the waist to fit properly, take a piece of fabric rope or shoestring and cut it slightly larger than your waist.
- Take your pair of jeans and cut a small hole on the inside of the waistband, close to the button closure on both sides of the zipper portion.
- Take your safety pin and stick it in the one end of the rope or shoe string.
- Thread your safety pin and rope/string through the small hole of your waistband until you reach the other side of the jeans and hole.
- Pull rope/string through the other hole making sure not to lose the end of rope/ string by pulling too hard.
- Once you have both ends of your rope/ string through the waistband remove the safety pin and tie knots on both sides to prevent rope/ string from being lost in the waistband of the jeans.
- Put jeans on and take your fabric pen and place marks on your jeans where you want flowers dispersed down the pant leg. Remove jeans when you’re done. Set aside.
- Take your faux flowers and remove all of them from their stems.
- Use your wire cutter to remove excess plastic and wire off the back of the flowers, so they will lay as flat as possible.
- Use your glue to place and secure rough velcro side to the back of the faux flowers.
- Use the same glue to place and secure smooth side of velcro buttons on top of marked spots on the jean pant leg.
- Once glue has dried, place your faux flowers on top of their designated velcro spots.
Ta-da!! Just like that you have fabulous one-of-a-kind DIY Flower Jeans to wear anytime.
*Bonus: The great thing about using velcro to secure the flowers on your jeans is that you can easily remove the flowers when you’re ready to wash your jeans or switch up your flowers for a different aesthetic.
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