How to Make Shabby Chic Flowers from Old Jeans

In this video I'm going to show you how to make some shabby chic flowers

out of those old jeans that you've got lying around Why waste them? Why not make some cute flowers

You can see here you can make them with as many layers as you like You can attach a button, you can even use other fabrics

Lots of different ways to use them, how about sewing them onto clothes, making some hair bands

The world's your oyster So I'm Christine of Christine's Crafts and this channel is dedicated to crafting on a budget

So what are you going to need? The first thing you're going to need is this template. Don't worry. There's a link below the video where you can go to my website and download it for free

No strings attached. So once you've got your template, you're just going to need a button for the centre of your flower

or as many buttons as you need for your flowers. And you're going to need some fabric

So as I say, I recommend some old jeans. You can see I've got the leg off one here

Use the rest of the jeans for a different project. And that's all you need

So you've got the option of sewing or gluing. and I'm going to show you both in this video. So the first thing you need to do is cut out a

template. You can cut out all three, you can just cut out one, but you're going to need at least one

to be able to cut out your petals. You then need to take your denim, place your template on the back

of your denim and draw around it. Now I'm using a Sharpie so that you can see it really clearly

but you can use anything you like. You just need a pencil or a biro or even an air erasable pen

and just something that's going to mark it for you to cut out. In fact, you're better with something

that doesn't show up too much because then it won be there on your flower at the end of the day So once you drawn round it you just going to repeat for as many sets of petals as you like I do recommend at least three to make a nice

flower, but I've made some with five or seven and you get a really full flower then. So you experiment

and add as many as you like. So assuming you just want the three, once you've got them all done

simply cut them out. Now if you've marked with a strong pen you're going to want to make sure you

get rid of that pen probably so it's not obvious on the edge of your petals but other than that

don't worry too much about your accuracy. Nobody's going to be looking. Nobody's going to know if

one's slightly different to another. So get them all cut out and then we can start attaching them

So the next thing I'm going to show you on here is how to sew them and then glue them

So you've got the two different options. So you take one, place it on top of another

And you're just going to turn them so that they're not lined up perfectly. So they look more natural and more like a flower

Now obviously you keep layering up until you've used them all. And then your button's going on the middle

So if you're sewing, the thing we need to think about now is getting our needle and thread

And attaching the button and the three layers. I recommend just pinning through because sometimes they can move a bit when you're trying to sew

So just put a little pin through one side and get your needle and thread

Now I've used a double thread and I've put a knot on the end

And simply place that through from the front and make a little stitch And then you going to come up through one of the holes on your button and go back down diagonally opposite

and then back down through the petals. And you're just going to secure that button

and secure all the petals at the same time. So once you're down, you're just going to come back up

through all three layers and the button, through the first hole and back down the second hole

And repeat that for as many as you feel you want to make sure it's secure

I don't know, three or four times maybe, just so that you're happy it's secure

Once you are happy, you need to come up one of the other holes and then go back down the

one diagonally opposite that. So you're forming a cross on top of your button. It just makes a nice centre piece

Once you're happy it's all secure you just need to finish off your thread on the back

of your flower. So you can take your pin out now. It's all secure and you just take a little stitch and then put the needle through the

loop that forms and that will make a nice little knot. And it's up to you how many times you do this but it's sometimes a good idea to do two or

three just to make sure it's secure and it's not going to come undone

Now if you're going to sew your flower onto something, you could leave your thread attached

and then just use it to sew onto whatever you're sewing to

But if you going to use it later simply cut off your thread and you got a nice completed flower And there you go Mass produce them Make as many as you need Now if you really don like sewing

or you know you're not going to use your flower on something that's going to get washed, because

be careful if you're going to wash it, glue can be a problem. But if you're just going to stick it on to decorate the front of a notepad, for example, and you want to glue

it you just want some general multi-purpose glue and add a little bit to the center of all of your

petals bar one the top one i wouldn't add any glue to i just add some to the other so in my case just

two lots of petals and then you're going to position the petals just like you would do if

you're going to sew it but this time you're going to take one of the glued ones and place it on top

of the other glued one and then you're going to take the top one and place that on top

and that's because when it comes to the top layer and adding your button i recommend that you put

the glue on the back of the button so that you don't get too much glue and you don't get it

showing around the edge of the button if you try and apply it to the petals sometimes you might not

get it in quite the right place or you might apply a little too much if you're applying it to the the button you're likely to get your quantities right

And then simply press the button on to the centre, make sure they're all secure and leave

them to dry before you try and use them. And that's it, you've made your denim flowers

Now if you're still looking for other ways to make some fabric flowers, how about checking

out these silk flowers, they're also really quick and easy to make and great for many projects