Upcycled Denim Blue Jeans Carry Sack - Tote - Purse

 Carry Sack - Tote - Purse made from Upcycled Denim Blue Jeans

These bags were made from the legs of a pair of Ashlin's blue jeans. She always seems to rip them in the thighs. She's still wearing the top part as shorts...but I have plans for them when she's done.

They have a rectangular bottom. Each bag has a liner and handles made from coordinating fabric. The bag stands 9 to 9 1/2 inches tall. The bottom measures approximately 5" x 4".

These bags easily hold 4 of my reading books, various sewing supplies, or a multitude of items. It would easily hold a skein of yarn and some knitting needles or crochet hooks. This is a perfect bag for on the go. I'm debating making a pattern that would turn them into insulated lunch totes.

~Sarah

My New Guitar

My new guitar is finished and added to Etsy. It is going to be hard to get rid of this guitar. I love the pop of color!  https://www.etsy.com/listing/168424922/upcycled-acoustic-guitar-shelf-one-of-a? This specific guitar has one long shelves. I would recommend hanging it using 2 hooks on the attached black and white cord.

Instead of doing my traditional guitar, I wanted to do a horizontal style shelf. I carefullt cut it with my dremel and found an extra block support on the inside of the guitar that was hard to cut. I cut a hard shelf to go into the guitar with grooves for the slats that were built into the guitar. I adhered it to the support I glued into the guitar. I cut a piece of trim and shaped it to the front of the guitar.

I decided to spray paint the entire guitar, so I took the metal pieces off and sprayed away. (Note to self: Don't Spray Paint when it is cold outside!!!!)  I used silver leaf to add accents on the neck and trim along the shelf. A musical themed upholstery fabric lines the back of the inside of the guitar. What a challenge cutting this to fit in perfectly. The final thing was to add Black Rhinestone Sticker Embellishments  and a black and white cord to hang the guitar. I would use double hooks to hang the cord on for added support!

 ~Sarah

Lost Guitar Post! My Guitar Shelves!

Last fall I started to make guitar shelves. Somehow, my post disappeared, so... I am re-posting it.

Tom found a couple guitars at garage sales and brought them home for me. They were not in good shape, so fixing them to play was not an option. I decided to make shelves out of them. This what came of them:

I used my Dremel to cut open the guitars. The first guitar had 2 cross bars in the back when I cut it open. The second Guitar had 3. now I knew how many shelves each would have. I added wooden support bars along the inside to support the shelves. I sanded everything and carefully sprayed the front of the guitars and the inside of the guitars black.

The first guitar I sprayed the hard wood shelves I added black. (Adding hard wood shelves to a curved area with a small opening is quite a challenge when the shelves do NOT bend. I wasn't sure I was going to be able to manage it.)

To complete the first guitar, I went into my scrap booking stash and carefully cut and glued the pages I chose to the back using the guitars natural dividers as section dividers. 

Note: This guitar was the first to sell and has shipped to Texas.

 The second guitar I made had 3 natural shelf dividers. I prepped it the same way as the first, however, I stained the shelves and edged them with black instead. I wanted to highlight more of the natural wood as this guitar had a very pretty coloring. I rotated the shelves so they would show two toned. The neck of the guitar was missing the bridge, so took it from the bottom piece I had taken off and adapted one for the neck.

I found some metal words and Rhinestone musical stickers I chose to use to decorate this guitar.

Note: This guitar has sold and has shipped to Virginia.

~Sarah

Filler:Brian's Quilt "Denim and Poker" Christmas Gift 2007

Ok...it's been a

while since I've posted. I've been doing home renovation projects and haven't finished yet. In the meantime, I thought I might pull out a few old craft or sewing projects that I finished.

This quilt I made for my cousin... Brian. I was trying to figure out a guy's quilt theme and decided denim and poker fabric would work. Brian likes playing games.

This particular project is a quilt is one I made out of denim and poker fabrics. I used a circle pattern I made to cut out the fabric. I cut 144 denim and 144 poker fabric pieces. I used a red thread to scallop stitch it all together.

I started stitching 4 of them together. The back side of the denim to the back side of the colored fabric.  I stitched the circles together by stitching 2 circles together, folding down the overlap and stitching that in place. I then layed them out to organize all my 4 patch squares. and to organize the color scheme a little.

 I then had 6 strips to connect together.

Finished front side:

Finished Back Side:

 ~Sarah