Make a Jeans Handbag: Cut & Pin for Sewing

Video Transcript

"We'll start by cutting our jeans to the length that we want our pocketbook to be, plus you want to leave about a three quarter inch seam allowance. So I want my, my handbag to end at the end of this WOW, and I'm going to cut it about three quarter inches below that and just go straight across, cutting off the leg and cut the other leg the same length. You can fold it over like this to get the right length on both sides. Just copy it. You can save these legs for, for other projects or you can throw them away. Now you want to cut out this seam here. And then we want to lay the fabric flat, and then we'll stitch that closed so that we have a nice, flat piece. So you can just kind of fold over one piece over the other and put some pins in there. And then we'll just top stitch to close that. And then I'll turn it over and we'll do the same on the back. Okay, we have a little excess fabric here. This one we can tuck in and we'll sew it. Instead of top stitching, I'll, we'll turn it inside out like this and just lay it, lay it flat. And we'll just continue the seam down here. So we'll put some pins in like this and then we'll take it to the machine and sew it down."