One Woman's Trash is Another Woman's Treasure: Week 2

Sorry for not posting Friday. Internet was on the fritz. I suppose that means you get two posts this week, weather permitting. Basically whenever the weather gets crazy (snow, rain, wind) I lose internet. The joys of living in the mountains I guess. This weather is not typical for a California May. By now I usually have a nice tan going and have the best swimming spots picked out. With all the rain and cold, I haven't set foot in a body of water yet. And we don't get tornadoes that touch down. Wednesday, four touched down in my county. Luckily, no one was hurt. A lot of property damage but that can be fixed.

Having some camera issues, hopefully that will be worked out by the end of next week.

I am not a fan of the "holes in my jeans" style. I can't see spending money on jeans that are already ripped up. My sister is the opposite of me. She buys them with holes. If they don't have holes when she buys jeans then she will make tears herself.

I've decided to use a pair of these holey jeans as a canvas. I made patches to cover the holes. On these patches I figured it would be fun to put some sort of design. So I had to come up with a theme for my jeans. I figured that since I majored in Genetics putting "genes on my jeans" would be the way to go.

Using my genetics textbooks I drew out the structures for the nucleotide bases and twenty amino acids. I used a white dressmakers pencil to draw the structures on the fabric. I hemmed the raw edges back and then used a contrasting thread to stitch the structures (sort of a rustic form of embroidery).

After I finished with the structures, I hand stitched the patch over the hole. Then I turned the jeans inside out and used light weight fusible interfacing (followed package directions on application) on all the patched areas to add more strength and hold the stitches in place.

There's another pair of holey jeans in the pile. I'm thinking of making patches for all the cities I've been to and sewing them on. Sort of my version of "traveling pants."

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