Jean Genius

Give new life to your pre-loved jeans, with these simple techniques and inventive designs. This practical book brings together ingenious repairing techniques and repurposing ideas. Your favourite jeans can be patched, visibly mended, reworked into a new fashionable style or even cut up to form a completely new garment or accessory. Whether you want a tote bag, a bucket hat, or a fresh new cut in your trousers, Janelle Hanna's designs will show you how to rescue good denim from landfill and give it a better future. And you'll discover that there's nothing more satisfying than turning something old into something new!

Give new life to your favorite jeans with these simple techniques and inventive designs: repair, restyle, reimagine - and experiment with these genius denim upcycling and repurposing projects.   

Discover that satisfying feeling of turning something old into something new with this practical book from denim expert Janelle Hanna. Teaching sewers of all levels a range of genius jean repair, repurpose and restyling skills, Janelle’s designs will show you how to breathe new life into good denim. Your favorite jeans can be patched, visibly mended, reworked into a new style, or even cut up to form a completely new garment or accessory. Whether you want a tote bag, a bucket hat, or a fresh new silhouette, this book will inject new life into one of the most loved staples of your wardrobe (and introduce you to a new eco-conscious craft in the process!).  

Projects include: 

REPAIR 
Darning 
Crotch repairs 
Knee repairs 
Patch techniques 
Repair pocket bags and pocket scoops 
Repair belt loop rip 
Hand-stitched repairs Sashiko style 
Taking in the waist 
Expand the size 
Hemming

RESTYLE 
Straight to wide leg 
Straight to flare 
Cut-off shorts 
Jeans to skirt 
Simple jacket or waistcoat 
Splicing 

REPURPOSE 
Sun hat 
Scrap patch pouch 
Patchwork tote bag 
Visor 
Slippers 
Patchwork styles