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ReUse Depot: Academy Jeans and Patches

Bring a pair of jeans and update their shape and fit, or play with denim to make patches for your jeans or jean jackets.

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ReUse Depot: Academy Jeans and Patches

ReUse Depot: Academy Jeans and Patches

Bring a pair of jeans and update their shape and fit, or play with denim to make patches for your jeans or jean jackets.

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What happens when your jeans wear out or you don’t like the style anymore? Remake them!

Denim is an incredibly versatile, reusable textile and we have plenty of it around. Join ReFashion head Naomi Spinak to alter jeans for your current style or use the denim to make artistic patches. You’ll see lots of samples and make your own denim patches with our collected materials.

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Skill level: Beginner to intermediate.

Project

Bring a pair of jeans and update their shape and fit, or play with denim to make patches for your jeans or jean jackets.

Prerequisites

You must have taken either Sewing Machine Orientation and Practice Project or Sewing Machine Certification for Sewists.

Instructor
Naomi Spinak

Naomi Spinak has been digging around in the trash bin for some time to create new treasures. Creator at one time of a line of organic and scrap-based children's clothing (Free Range Kids), Naomi is a costume designer, fiber artist, dressmaker, and currently committee chair for the Bainbridge Island Trashion Show. Her work has been featured in the Bainbridge Island Quilt Show; Bainbridge Performing Arts; the Texas state capitol in Austin; the Kirkland Center for the Arts; and the O'Hanlon Center for the Arts in California. She has a piece in an upcoming issue of Surface Design Association Journal. She has taught numerous classes at her children's school, Odyssey, on Bainbridge.

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