The topic of jewelry for women is vast, I want to focus on one of the attributes - the bracelet. Of course, the choice is not accidental; those who know me will not be surprised.

The wrists and ankles (in summer) are ringed with a pair of bracelets. But in order not to look like a Christmas tree, you must, of course, maintain style. Therefore, there should be a lot of bracelets)) I’m right, right?)) Well, for all occasions.

For a long time I wore a silver bracelet as a universal one: beautiful, calm and massive, it matched everything I wore, and at the time I was working and, having nowhere to go, followed the dress code. And then a bicycle and a baby stroller appeared in my life, and the dress code only terrified me with memories. This is where my bracelet became more for going out than for every day. Leather bracelets appeared, which definitely won’t scratch a child, baubles, knitted ones for the winter and rubber ones - just for all occasions. There are also national, jewelry, costume jewelry, but this is not about me.

My daughter-in-law also loves bracelets and wears them all the time, but she chose an almost win-win option, the PANDORA bracelet. Therefore, for me now a birthday gift for her is not a problem at all. Not only is the product very original not only in appearance, but the idea itself is beautiful, but you also don’t have to rack your brains over the gift, as is often the case. Assembling a composition of charm pendants yourself is exciting, and most importantly, no one else will have this. Girls love exclusivity. The website www.pandora.net presents a complete catalog of products, as well as a map of PANDORA stores, where you can purchase not only charms for bracelets, but also other jewelry. Gold and silver, precious and semi-precious stones, enamel and mysterious Murano glass - this is not a complete list of materials used in production.

Well, for those who like to conjure their own magic on jewelry, a small master class on making a denim bracelet:

Blank from a plastic bottle.

Glue the calico onto PVA glue.

Make cuts in the fabric and fold the edges.

Cover the inside with fabric.

We decorate, in this case with denim and colored fabric.

And from a double seam you can make something like this. True, you will have to figure out how to do this yourself.

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The decoration can consist of either thick denim or thin

The world never ceases to thank the great fashion invention - jeans. Everyone in their wardrobe is sure to have a favorite pair of denim trousers, a jacket or a shirt for all occasions. But, despite the high wearability, the fabric wears out over time, or the model simply goes out of fashion. Don’t rush to throw away the item, because you can make several original and original accessories out of it. We offer several simple and interesting master classes on creating unusual jewelry from denim with your own hands.

Creativity lessons

It will not be difficult for a skilled and talented craftswoman to make something unusual, incredibly stylish and original from any material, even if not quite ordinary. Denim jewelry never goes out of style, just like the jeans themselves, which have been the “highlight” of every fashion show for many decades.

A simple bracelet made from denim stripes and most importantly tasteful
Original necklace with decorative crocheted flowers
Fun denim earrings with embroidery
Denim pendant with a bird

Such jewelry is universal, original, and to make it you only need imagination, a creative spirit and an old denim item from your wardrobe. We offer several original ideas for creating stylish jewelry that will complement and refresh the stylish look of a modern fashionista.

Denim flower

Fabric flowers are an integral element of brooches, necklaces, hairpins and headbands. Jewelry with a “floral theme” is always relevant; they emphasize a girl’s fragility, tenderness and create a romantic image. A denim flower is a stylish and unusual decoration.

Rose made of denim for decoration in the form of hairpins or brooches

We suggest making it yourself:

• First, let's prepare a template on paper. We draw 1-15 petals of different sizes to make the flower multi-layered. The more elements, the more magnificent the decoration will be.
• We transfer the sketch to denim fabric and cut out the blanks. You should get 3-4 large petals, 3-4 smaller elements and a couple of the smallest petals.
• The edges of the petals can be processed in different ways, for example, “gutted” to create a fringe, or the edges can be folded and hemmed.
• Let's start assembling the craft. We fold the smallest petal, sew another element next in size to it, and so on until we have sewn all the elements together.
• To make the flower look more realistic, you can trim the edges of the fabric with a hot knife, as if turning the petals out. This creates the effect of a living rose.

Create a lush rose from pieces of jeans

You can play with the shape and size of the elements, decorate the petals with rhinestones like drops of dew, add beads or satin ribbons. This flower will become the base element for a bracelet, necklace or hair clip.

Rose made of denim. Part 1

Rose made of denim. Part 2

Collar necklace

From the collar of an old denim shirt, adding accessories and combining different materials, you can make an unusual holiday necklace.

A fairly simple way to create a collar from a denim shirt

We will need an old denim shirt, a satin fabric ribbon, beads, connectors and shaped metal fittings, as well as a thread and a needle.

Denim fabric is quite dense, so the threads must be strong, and the needle must have a strong shaft, a small eye and a rounded point. There are special denim needles for sewing machines.

The operating algorithm is as follows:

• Cut three strips 2 centimeters wide. We leave two as they are, and on the third we make fringe at the edges by pulling out several longitudinal threads.
• We make “pleating” from the fringed ribbon to make a ruffle; we sew the edges by hand or on a sewing machine to make an even circle.
• We sew a flower or the same pleated circle from a satin ribbon and sew it to a denim blank.
• We baste the edge of the denim strip and tighten the thread, we get a small circle. We will also sew it to the workpiece.
• We decorate the resulting multilayer flower with beads, sew on metal fittings, and attach a metal connector from the inside.
• Using the remaining satin and denim ribbon, we form circles in the same way, sew them together, and decorate them with a bow.
• We sew blanks to the ends of the collar, and attach metal chains or strings of beads to the connectors.

This is something like a necklace - the stand should look like this

The elegant necklace is ready. You can experiment with decor and materials, so the decoration will have a stylish and original look.

Bead bracelet

For this master class, you need to prepare thin denim, large beads, seed beads, and small metal pendants.

Denim bracelet on a satin ladder

Tools that will be useful in this work are pliers, scissors and wire cutters. Let's start making the decoration:

1. 1Cut a strip of denim. Its width should be slightly larger than the circumference of the beads. We measure the beads, make an allowance on the fabric, and cut out the blank.
2. We sew the edges lengthwise, turn them inside out, pushing the fabric through the hole with scissors. It turned out to be a long tube.
3. We insert the beads into the hole one by one. We attach the outermost one to a pin, and attach another pin to it.
4. When the entire tube is filled with beads, sew the edges together, gathering the thread a little to close the hole. To hide small flaws, we put a metal “cap” on top, make a loop, and attach a carabiner or toggle to it.
5. We begin to separate the beads. We gather the fabric so that the fabric tightly fits the bead inside, we intercept each bead with thread. The result is a “caterpillar”. We decorate the places where the beads are caught by the thread with beads. We attach a toggle at the ends to create an unusual bracelet.

You can attach metal pendants like Pandora bracelets, in the form of hearts, a shoe, a key, the Eiffel Tower, or whatever your imagination suggests. You can also make a whole set consisting of a bracelet, beads and earrings. Such jewelry will complement the look in country style, boho chic, hippie and any other style.

Jeans bracelet

Any materials can be combined with denim. Jewelry made from denim and lace, satin ribbons or tulle look especially delicate and extremely feminine. An unusual combination of textures, contrasting trim, embroidery and knitted elements, buttons and beads - all this can be safely used when making original costume jewelry from denim. Create and surprise the world with handmade fashion accessories, boast about your successes with pleasure, and share ideas with beginners.

This master class is about how I implemented this idea.

For the bracelet we need seams from old jeans, better with double stitching, and old metal zipper. If you don't have the old zipper, you can buy a new one.

Soldering iron Using a thin tip, we cut (melt) the fabric on one side of the zipper close to the teeth. If you don’t have a soldering iron, you can simply trim the fabric with scissors, leaving 2-3 mm. fabric near the cloves and melt the edge over a candle flame. This must be done to prevent the edge from fraying.

We get a strip like this.

We sew the top (outer) row through the top to the nearest row. We recess the thread between the teeth so that it is not visible. Thus, row by row we increase the circle.

Depending on the width of the bracelet, the circle of teeth can be 1-2 cm. In my bracelet, this circle is about 1.5 cm in diameter. We cut the zipper with a soldering iron, melting the fabric between the teeth. If you don’t have a soldering iron, you can cut it and be sure to melt the edge so that the teeth don’t come off.

Thus, we make the required number of such elements. You may need from 5 to 8 pieces, depending on the length of the bracelet and the distance between the elements.

We begin to cut the seam from the jeans from the side where it is folded.

On the other side, we cut the seam, leaving a strip of fabric equal to the width of the seam plus 1 - 1.5 cm.

We apply the cut strip to the hand and determine the length of the bracelet. The length of the cut strip should be made 2.5 cm less than in the finished form, because these 2.5 cm will go to the fastener. After you decide on the length of one strip, cut off another exactly the same part along it.

Along the length of the denim strips, we cut off the zipper from the part that was left uncut with a soldering iron.

Using pliers, remove the teeth from each edge of the cut zipper, leaving part of the base of the zipper free from them at a distance of 1 cm from the edge. This is necessary so that when sewing the fastener you do not break the needle on the teeth, and the seam will be less rough.

You need to trim the zipper so that if you put it inside the denim seam, it will not interfere with folding the denim strip along the edge of the inner seam. Apply the zipper to the cut seam of the jeans so that the teeth of the zipper are fully visible. Secure with a basting stitch.

We prepare the second strip in the same way. Please note that the zipper teeth do not reach the edge of the denim part.

Close to the edge, along the remaining stitching on the denim seam, we lay a new line. It is better to use a needle on the machine special for denim or size 100.

And then on the other side.

We cut out an element for the fastener from denim fabric. Its width is equal to the width of the bracelet, length 6 cm.

We fix the element under the clasp on the bracelet as shown in the photo. We sew exactly the same element on the other side.

We sew along the perimeter using a sewing machine, only at the top and bottom we retreat from the edge to the level of the denim seam.

We use Velcro as a clasp for the bracelet. We cut off the required amount of Velcro and work it along the contour with a zigzag.

A bracelet made from seams from old jeans and an old broken zipper is ready. These seemingly unnecessary things have begun a second life as decoration.

Still, for a thin hand, the bracelet should be made narrower. The diameter of the spirals should not exceed 1 cm. In my opinion, it looks a bit rough.

This bracelet looks much better on a friend. I had to give her this bracelet.

Denim fans, don’t miss this master class, you should definitely have such an original and stylish piece of jewelry.

Take one evening to make your own designer summer denim bracelet. The lace trim gives it tenderness, and the beads add a little glamor, without which it is impossible to imagine a fashionista. It is not necessary to exactly repeat the proposed design; if you have original beads, beautiful buttons or other decorations, feel free to use them.

Preparation of materials for creativity

- a very exciting women's hobby. Start your jewelry journey with this simple accessory. To create a summer women's bracelet from jeans, take:

• old jeans, maybe even children’s ones;
• white lace ribbon 10 centimeters wide;
• a white lace strip no more than 2.5 centimeters wide;
• two metal buttons on the stem with stasis;
• pearl beads;
• large uneven turquoise beads;
• white thread for sewing;
  a needle;
• scissors.

Sewing a bracelet from jeans with your own hands

Find jeans in your wardrobe that you will no longer wear for one reason or another. Cut the belt as close to the seam as possible on the loop side. Measure the circumference of your wrist, add another 4 centimeters and cut off part of the belt. This will be the basis of the accessory.

If there is no belt, make the same base from a piece of denim material.

Carefully, without damaging the fabric, undo the harness.

Cut a wide lace ribbon equal to the length plus three times the width of the bracelet base. If necessary, consider the periodicity of the lace pattern. Fold the wide lace in half, right side inward. Using an overcast stitch, sew the end part on both sides.

Sew it to the denim base using a blind stitch. Secure the cut side of the belt with an overcast stitch. This part will hide under the clasp and will not be visible.

Sew a narrow ribbon in the middle of the jeans bracelet. Using a basting stitch, secure the trim around the perimeter.

Considering the pattern of the lace placed in the center, sew on pearl beads.

Sew large turquoise beads along the middle line between the edges of the lace and denim. To make the job easier, sew the beads across one another using a basting stitch. Then use the same seam in the opposite direction to attach the remaining beads in the missing places. From the loop side, decorate with turquoise beads along the perimeter to the beginning of the central lace.

Try on your hand made bracelet made from jeans. Mark the locations for attaching the buttons. Sew on metal buttons with rhinestones.

Now - the final touch. On the reverse side, carefully cut the wide lace at the loops. Sew the sides of the slits while sewing them to the denim. Fix the corners on the sides of the accessory by sewing them to the jeans as well.

So the original denim accessory is ready! Using a minimum of materials and effort, you have made a stylish piece of jewelry with your own hands that will be a great addition to your summer wardrobe.

A handmade summer bracelet made from denim can be made together with girls of middle and high school age. By combining materials, color and texture of the decor, you can make many different decorations.

See what else. And if you have an unnecessary piece of leather, then use it to make a luxurious one. See even more master classes on creating jewelry using various handicraft techniques. All instructions are provided with step-by-step photos and descriptions, so you will definitely succeed!