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Brian
Dec 8, 2012, 5:58:06 PM12/8/12
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The other day, I bought some jeans (well actually by now I think it is a
few years ago). I do not buy jeans very often, and these jeans that I
bought very promptly reminded me of why I don't buy them very often.
I just don't find them as comfortable as everyone else seems to, and I
also feel like I should be out plowing the north 40 whenever I wear them.
Well anyway, I have total of 4 pair (the ones I got, and a pair of black
ones I already had), and a scrap of denim from a hakama that I made a
while back for my sword class that is roughly the size of a fat quarter, I
suppose. I also might have a few pieces of white denim hanging around
somewhere. There are a few things I figure I can do with these:
Start cutting them up and try my hand at a jeans quilt, but I am not sure
if 4 pair + ~a fat quarter + possibly some scraps is enough for a
quilt . If I used it in a quilt, no one would probably know it was not
from a pair of jeans unless I
told them, so I figure it is okay.
Extend the tie straps on my hakama. I have reason to want to make them
perhaps a foot or so longer on each end, but it looks like my ~FQ might be
enough for that, so then I still have the problem of what to do with the
actual jeans.
Fold them up and leave them at the drop box for the goodwill, and buy some
dockers or pants that I like better. Or do dockers count as a type of
jean? Are jeans a style no matter what they are made from, or is the
distinguishing feature of jeans that they are made of denim no matter what
specific pattern is used.
Something else?
Brian Christansen
few years ago). I do not buy jeans very often, and these jeans that I
bought very promptly reminded me of why I don't buy them very often.
I just don't find them as comfortable as everyone else seems to, and I
also feel like I should be out plowing the north 40 whenever I wear them.
Well anyway, I have total of 4 pair (the ones I got, and a pair of black
ones I already had), and a scrap of denim from a hakama that I made a
while back for my sword class that is roughly the size of a fat quarter, I
suppose. I also might have a few pieces of white denim hanging around
somewhere. There are a few things I figure I can do with these:
Start cutting them up and try my hand at a jeans quilt, but I am not sure
if 4 pair + ~a fat quarter + possibly some scraps is enough for a
quilt . If I used it in a quilt, no one would probably know it was not
from a pair of jeans unless I
told them, so I figure it is okay.
Extend the tie straps on my hakama. I have reason to want to make them
perhaps a foot or so longer on each end, but it looks like my ~FQ might be
enough for that, so then I still have the problem of what to do with the
actual jeans.
Fold them up and leave them at the drop box for the goodwill, and buy some
dockers or pants that I like better. Or do dockers count as a type of
jean? Are jeans a style no matter what they are made from, or is the
distinguishing feature of jeans that they are made of denim no matter what
specific pattern is used.
Something else?
Brian Christansen
Polly Esther
Dec 8, 2012, 8:58:35 PM12/8/12
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IMHO, of course - donate the new jeans to a Thrift Shop. Someone needs them.
If you want to make a jeans quilt, ask friends/neighbors for those they're
about to toss away. Garage sales are a great source too. Old soft denim
makes the best quilt - gentle color variations, sturdy and quite warm. Polly
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If you want to make a jeans quilt, ask friends/neighbors for those they're
about to toss away. Garage sales are a great source too. Old soft denim
makes the best quilt - gentle color variations, sturdy and quite warm. Polly
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Roberta
Dec 9, 2012, 8:18:01 AM12/9/12
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Jeans are a style, but always made from denim, and they were invented
to be sturdy rather than comfortable. If yours are still in good
shape, give them to someone who needs clothes. And try on your new
pants until you do find some you enjoy wearing! Life is too short for
uncomfortable clothing.
Roberta in D
to be sturdy rather than comfortable. If yours are still in good
shape, give them to someone who needs clothes. And try on your new
pants until you do find some you enjoy wearing! Life is too short for
uncomfortable clothing.
Roberta in D
sewingb...@aol.com
Dec 9, 2012, 3:04:18 PM12/9/12
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So what, exactly, is wrong with these jeans? You don't say.
I've done a number for alterations on jeans, from inserting gussets in crotch, back center seam, leg inseam areas. Elastic can be inserted in the waistband area. Wierdly enough,once upon a time, I re-built a favorite pair--legs, seat, knees, for a client. Despite my warning: "You can buy two new pair cheaper than this..."
Jeans can be taken in on the side or center back seam, as well as the leg seams. First thing I recommend if they are too big, is to wash in hot water, and fry in the dryer. Sometimes one or two trips like this is the cure.
I'm working on two new pair now, inserting long gussets in the inseams. The legs are so skinny that a 12 year-old would have trouble getting them on. Once I got them on, the legs were were so tight, I thought I'd have to be buried in them.
Hardest part of the alteration was finding a material similar enough in weight as well as color. (mint green and daffodil yellow; proper weight for proper leg-hang of insert.)
As far as a quilt from jeans goes, I made one. Then I had to sleep under it. Couldn't roll over all night. Had to have help getting out of bed in the morning. Weighty thing, it was. Probably has to be washed and dried in commercial machines. Not something I would make again.
Cea
Polly Esther
Dec 9, 2012, 6:33:36 PM12/9/12
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Thanks, Cea. I needed a laugh. Polly
<sewingb...@aol.com> wrote in part > The legs are so skinny that a 12
<sewingb...@aol.com> wrote in part > The legs are so skinny that a 12
Brian
Dec 9, 2012, 7:01:51 PM12/9/12
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On Sun, 09 Dec 2012 12:04:18 -0800, sewingbythecea wrote:
> So what, exactly, is wrong with these jeans? You don't say.
There is nothing "wrong" with them. I just don't find jeans as
> So what, exactly, is wrong with these jeans? You don't say.
comfortable as everyone else seems to, Whatever the mass appeal of jeans
is, I just don't seem to share it. However, it took actually buying a
pair and trying it on to remind me of this fact.
Brian Christiansen
Taria
Dec 9, 2012, 9:16:52 PM12/9/12
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Run them through the laundry several times and see if that
helps. Jeans take some time to become favorites. Sorry they
aren't working for you. They are pretty much a uniform around
here.
Taria
"Brian" wrote in message news:ka38pf$vvu$1...@dont-email.me...
helps. Jeans take some time to become favorites. Sorry they
aren't working for you. They are pretty much a uniform around
here.
Taria
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Pat S
Dec 10, 2012, 3:28:56 AM12/10/12
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You are not alone, Brian!
I think I might have tried a pair on once, but I have never bought a
pair!!
.
In message <ka38pf$vvu$1...@dont-email.me>, Brian
<brian_ch...@hotmail.com> writes
Best Regards
Pat on the Green
I think I might have tried a pair on once, but I have never bought a
pair!!
.
In message <ka38pf$vvu$1...@dont-email.me>, Brian
<brian_ch...@hotmail.com> writes
>There is nothing "wrong" with them. I just don't find jeans as
>comfortable as everyone else seems to, Whatever the mass appeal of jeans
>is, I just don't seem to share it. However, it took actually buying a
>pair and trying it on to remind me of this fact.
>
>Brian Christiansen
--
>comfortable as everyone else seems to, Whatever the mass appeal of jeans
>is, I just don't seem to share it. However, it took actually buying a
>pair and trying it on to remind me of this fact.
>
>Brian Christiansen
Best Regards
Pat on the Green
Maureen Wozniak
Dec 10, 2012, 9:00:21 AM12/10/12
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On Sat, 8 Dec 2012 16:58:06 -0600, Brian wrote
(in article <ka0glu$nhk$3...@dont-email.me>):
I have huge piles of jeans in all different sizes that some one (okay, more
than one some one) has given me because "there is a lot of fabric there and
you sew." I will probably use at least some of them to make placemats to use
at the patio table.
http://todaysnest.typepad.com/todays-nest/2011/06/sweet-salvation-upcycled-
denim-placemat.html
Maureen
(in article <ka0glu$nhk$3...@dont-email.me>):
than one some one) has given me because "there is a lot of fabric there and
you sew." I will probably use at least some of them to make placemats to use
at the patio table.
http://todaysnest.typepad.com/todays-nest/2011/06/sweet-salvation-upcycled-
denim-placemat.html
Maureen
Butterfly-Wings
Dec 10, 2012, 12:06:37 PM12/10/12
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They make a fantastic 'ground/picnic quilt'.... thick enuf to not let the
dampness in and wash rther easily.
to me, jeans were somthing worn when you were doing the barn chores. I do
ahve a pair for hiking but haven't worn them in a coupla years now. Got them
on sale and they have a nice beading up the sides of the legs and around the
pockets so they don't really Look like chore jeans.
Good seeing you posting again
Butterfly
dampness in and wash rther easily.
to me, jeans were somthing worn when you were doing the barn chores. I do
ahve a pair for hiking but haven't worn them in a coupla years now. Got them
on sale and they have a nice beading up the sides of the legs and around the
pockets so they don't really Look like chore jeans.
Good seeing you posting again
Butterfly
Butterfly-Wings
Dec 10, 2012, 12:08:43 PM12/10/12
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Butterfly (Grab your chair off the wall and PASS THE Cookies.....you DID
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Taria
Dec 10, 2012, 6:30:34 PM12/10/12
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Chore jeans? Now there is my problem. If I got rid of all my jeans you
think
the chores would go away? Years ago we collected dh's sis from Orange
County/John Wayne airport. Everyone in the place had jeans on. DH wouldn't
wear blue jeans for a good while just as a protest to the 'uniform' they
were.
He is back to them and chores too now.
Taria
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think
the chores would go away? Years ago we collected dh's sis from Orange
County/John Wayne airport. Everyone in the place had jeans on. DH wouldn't
wear blue jeans for a good while just as a protest to the 'uniform' they
were.
He is back to them and chores too now.
Taria
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cea
Dec 11, 2012, 7:23:39 PM12/11/12
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Brilliant thought! Will track chores to see if this lack of jeans works.
That's what they were originally designed for--work--specifically, out West in the US of A: panning for gold, laying railroad tracks, breaking horses, plowing the back 40. Good old Levi Strauss saw a desperate need, and filled it.
Surprisingly,though, since it is now associated with America, denim was originally made in France, and named for the--um, er, town or area--here my memory goes loosey-goosey, so I'll do this phonetically--De Nimes?
Sigh. What's really scary is the crap I remember in order to fill in crossword puzzles.
Anyway, I do a lot of gardening and yard work, and a pair of jeans will outlast any other pants, by three or four years or more. They also protect my legs from the slings and arrows of misfortune.
Why, only Sunday, I wore a lightweight pair of regular pants, and spent a good half-hour screaming in pain, trying to disentangle myself from the rose bush.
On the other hand, they are not comfortable to sit in for long hours at a work table or desk, unless extremely wide-legged.
Cea
Roberta
Dec 12, 2012, 5:11:38 AM12/12/12
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Yes! Nimes is the town in France. And "jeans" IIRC comes from Genoa,
an important port at the time. Italian sailors and other workers went
everywhere, worked hard, and brought us all that good food tradition!
(which helps make us too fat for our jeans)
Roberta in D
On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:23:39 -0800 (PST), cea <sewingb...@aol.com>
wrote:
an important port at the time. Italian sailors and other workers went
everywhere, worked hard, and brought us all that good food tradition!
(which helps make us too fat for our jeans)
Roberta in D
On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:23:39 -0800 (PST), cea <sewingb...@aol.com>
wrote:
Bobbie Sews More
Dec 12, 2012, 7:54:07 AM12/12/12
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Next time you feel the need to buy jeans you might want to try on the Lee
Stretch Jeans and see if you can squat in them. These are my husband's
favorite dressy jeans.
Barbara in FL
Stretch Jeans and see if you can squat in them. These are my husband's
favorite dressy jeans.
Barbara in FL
Julia in MN
Dec 12, 2012, 8:40:04 AM12/12/12
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"Dressy jeans" -- isn't that a bit of an oxymoron? That said, I pretty
much live in jeans. My "dressy" ones are corduroy. A couple years ago I
found a sale on corduroy jeans, they fit well, and I bought 4 pair in
different colors. (I consider any pants cut like jeans to be jeans,
regardless of fabric. Among other features, jeans have a yoke in back
and patch pockets.)
Julia in MN
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much live in jeans. My "dressy" ones are corduroy. A couple years ago I
found a sale on corduroy jeans, they fit well, and I bought 4 pair in
different colors. (I consider any pants cut like jeans to be jeans,
regardless of fabric. Among other features, jeans have a yoke in back
and patch pockets.)
Julia in MN
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Bobbie Sews More
Dec 12, 2012, 9:43:36 AM12/12/12
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Maybe I should have said the Lee jeans are DH's nicest jeans that he wears
when he wants to look his best in jeans for a picnic or a very casual
party where most of the guys will be wearing their best jeans instead of
khakis
We are usually very casual and wear shorts most of the time. Today in
Florida the temps should get up to 80.
Barbara in Florida
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when he wants to look his best in jeans for a picnic or a very casual
party where most of the guys will be wearing their best jeans instead of
khakis
We are usually very casual and wear shorts most of the time. Today in
Florida the temps should get up to 80.
Barbara in Florida
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Taria
Dec 12, 2012, 10:29:45 AM12/12/12
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Those jeans with a bit of stretch hold their color a lot longer than all
cotton ones so they look new longer. Life is pretty casual in so cal.
There are few places you can dress really nice and not feel out of
place. : (
How is your son doing Bobbie?
Taria
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cotton ones so they look new longer. Life is pretty casual in so cal.
There are few places you can dress really nice and not feel out of
place. : (
How is your son doing Bobbie?
Taria
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Kay Lancaster
Dec 12, 2012, 10:01:03 PM12/12/12
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On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 07:54:07 -0500, Bobbie Sews More <bar...@peoplepc.com> wrote:
> Next time you feel the need to buy jeans you might want to try on the Lee
> Stretch Jeans and see if you can squat in them. These are my husband's
> favorite dressy jeans.
And then there are these: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13-Rqjt5kwg
> Next time you feel the need to buy jeans you might want to try on the Lee
> Stretch Jeans and see if you can squat in them. These are my husband's
> favorite dressy jeans.
This is also the company that offers crack spackle t-shirts:
http://www.duluthtrading.com/store/product/longtail-t-with-crack-spackle-bucket-74585.aspx
Kay
Roberta
Dec 14, 2012, 11:39:37 AM12/14/12
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that's almost TMI! ROFL -watched the beaver ads too.
Roberta in D
Roberta in D
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