Jean Bag

Jeans are everywhere!  No matter how much I cut and sew and cut and glue and cut and tie the old jean pile never seems to diminish in size so a big pointless project is in order for recycle day, week three.

Old Jean Use No. 3: Jean Bag Bean Bag

Cut out four pant legs.  Cut each pant leg straight down the pant leg, front and center, making sure to only cut the front side of the pant leg.  Now there are four large pieces of jeans.  If you want to jazz up your jeans now would be the time to do it.  I cut out some hearts and sewed them willy nilly on the pant legs, but the possibilities are endless!

Sew all the pant legs together, right sides together, to create one large jean tube.  Turn the tube inside out, lay flat and sew one end together.  Sew the other end together, leaving a six to eight inch opening in the center of the side.  I would suggest a French seam for everything in order to super-secure the seams.

Stuff the jeans with packing peanuts, or pet friendly stuffing, or whatever you feel like using.  I ended up using a combination of packing peanuts and old grocery bags because I’m cheap.  It ends up making a lot of noise when you sit on it but that’s the consequence of being cheap I guess.

Anyway, once it is stuffed to your liking, sew up the opening, either by hand or by machine.  I recommend machine sewing closed the opening twice in order to reinforce the seam and make sure the stuffing doesn’t pop out. 

Viola, a jean bag bean bag!

Felicity