the dandy denim blazer

What do you get when you cross a pair of his old jeans with a pair of my old jeans?

A fabulously far-out new blazer for him!

Here’s how I did it…

I snagged an old pair of his jeans & a zipper

I grabbed a pair of his old jeans & a pair of my old jeans

removed the back pockets from his jeans

and stitched them back on upside down

measured him from shoulder to waist & used that measurement to mark from the jean’s waist to thigh area *the waist of the jeans will become the bottom of the blazer

folded the jeans exactly in half & chopped through both legs at the mark

sliced out the thick inseam & opened up the legs

folded the legs back together right sides facing & pinned the chopped ends

stitched the ends closed to create the shoulders of the blazer & rounded off those pointy outer corners

grabbed my old jeans, measured his arm from shoulder to wrist & chopped the legs to size for sleeves

used the width of the soon-to-be-sleeves to slice an arm opening just below the shoulder seam

popped a sleeve into the opening right sides facing, stitched together & repeated with the other arm

zigzagged over the outside sleeve seams for extra strength to prevent fraying

cut open one of his leftover chopped jean legs & stitched it into the open ‘V’ of the back

hemmed up the raw edges with my rolled hem foot & a contrasting thread

added a button-hole & manly vintage button

and the quirktastic denim blazer was complete!

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