I love the first of the year. We can look at the old and start fresh. I must have been in that mood, because during January, I was attacking my jean stack making the old new.
I found a great tutorial, through pinterest, for the cutest apron.
http://kimboscrafts.blogspot.com/2010/02/levi-apron.html
I followed her tutorial for the most part, but at the neck, I wanted a button, I wanted it to fit, but not pull on my neck (plus I really hate things tied around my neck, always makes me feel clausterphobic!)
And then I left the bottom with the original hem from the jeans.
My girls all want their own and so now I have a stack of their old jeans awaiting their aprons.
My son had some shorts w/stains on the legs. I was getting ready to throw them out (which I hate to do) because they were so small (18 m) and I couldn't salvage much, when I glanced at the waistband and the idea emerged. I could probably make a pretty good headband out of these. I used my small sewing scissors so that I could get as close to the seem as possible. Starting at the side seam I trimmed the waistband off. Then I trimmed the mock drawstring from the front.
Next, I cut 3 different size squares from the shorts, where there was no stains.
I cut out a butterfly shape. Then I layered the 3 butterflies over the place where I had removed the drawstring.
I decided it needed a little sparkle and added a bead. I sewed it all together with orange thread.
Voila! (That's the fancy french word for "look at this" according to my 5 year old and some Fancy Nancy reading). A new headband (and just in time as we broke 2 this morning). It took about 15 minutes.