How to Make Your Own Unique Jeans

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Find a black or brown pair of jeans.

   Everyone else seems to be wearing blue.
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   Step 2: Design your jeans with a single theme

   Pick a theme of interest, such as music, flowers, hearts, stars or symbols.
   
   Choose a single color, such as red, blue or purple.
   
   Consider light and dark shades of each color.
   
   Choose a single medium, such as fabric paint, Kool-aid dye or Rit dye.
   
   Choose a single embellishment, such as beads or buttons.
   
   Choose a single technique, such as painting, stenciling, stamping, sewing, embroidering, crocheting or beading. , Choose a single item to sew, such as patches or cut-outs.
   
   Choose a single piece of fabric, such as lace or a cotton print. , Scatter blue, lace patches over the black jeans.
   
   Add heart-shaped cut-outs to the black jeans.
   
   Replace the center of each heart with red print fabric.
   
   Crochet red trim to two pockets and the hemline of the black pants.
   
   Scatter violet beaded stars over the brown jeans.
   
   Stencil one pant leg of the brown jeans with blue dye, using a particular symbol.
   
   Stamp dark brown paint in vining trails along the outer seam of the brown jeans, using a small symbol.
   
   Add small, red buttons along the front pockets and lower outer seams of the brown jeans. , Cut zigzag or wavy lines along the hem and let it fray. ,
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   Step 3: medium and technique.

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   Step 4: Be more specific.

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   Step 5: Think of possible combinations of your single choices: Embroider the back pockets and front lower legs of the black jeans in blue

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   Step 6: using musical notes.

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   Step 7: Change the hem.

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   Step 8: Finished.

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