Fail AND REDEMPTION: BLEACHED SHORTS. This post should've come to you a long time ago but, it has taken a while to get over what I'm about to tell you.
Today I will tell you the most depressing story when it comes to crafting. We had big plans for those shorts up there. We had seen all the cute bleached shorts around the internet and thought... we should do this! So we went to Goodwill and got those shorts up there, brought them home, and followed a YouTube tutorial we had seen- STEP BY STEP. To continue with the story, I will tell you exactly what we did. Cut the bottom of the shorts in whatever way you want. Take an exacto knife, scissors and sand paper... And rough up the shorts where you'd like. Next we stuck the shorts in a bucket of bleach exactly as many tutorials told us to. When we got scared of how long the shorts had been sitting in the bleach, we put them out to dry in the bathtub.
Drying... That's right. These are the shorts from the second try. Jeans to Coral Skinnies DIY. Sorry I didn't post a Mid-Week Sneak Peek this past Wednesday, it was the first day of classes and this week has been quite crazy with all the various Welcome Week activities.
Now on to the tutorial for this week! I've been loving the brightly colored skinny jean trend lately, but as usual, I don't love the price tag. So, I decided to DIY it for a much more affordable price! They turned out so well! Take a look! This is what they looked like before, during, and after: Don't they look great? Want to know how I did it? Click "Read More" below to view the instructions! Here's what you'll need: -old jeans to refashion (I got mine at Goodwill!) -Rit dye -old plastic tub or bucket to dye in -gloves -bleach -sewing machine Here's what you'll do: **The first 3 steps involve altering the jeans to make them skinny jeans since mine originally weren't. 1.
Side note: My shirt says "The one night stand your mom will approve of. " 2. 3. 4. It took my jeans THREE DAYS to get completely bleached. 5. 6. #89: How to keep the original hem on your jeans. Why do the fancy jean companies make their jeans so long?
I liked it better when there was the short, regular, and long options… what happened to that? Anyhow… I had a $50 groupon to Hem, a jean boutique in Austin. I got a wonderfuly [expensive] pair of jeans [and GREAT service] for a heck of a deal. I had them hemmed at the store for a pair of heels and soon realized that wasn’t going to work out for me. It’s not fancy, but it’s easy. First, decide how long you want them. Pin them good… I like to put my pins in vertical so that I can sew over them. Sew along the dashed line Iron the seam really well. Pretty simple, right?