What you'll need: old jeans/shorts, scissors, a fork, and some bleach.
I follow a lot of mom's and kids boutiques on instagram, and I've been eyeing up the distressed crop jean for a while. However, with my son growing like a bean sprout everyday, i refuse to pay $70.00 on jeans that he'll outgrow by next week. Plus, $70.00 on toddler jeans... seriously?!
This was actually a very impromptu DIY moment that turned out pretty well. I was scrolling through IG and he was being relatively calm over our breakfast routine this morning, so I decided to try and sneak a project in.
He has so many pairs of jeans that still fit him in the waist, but he's too tall for now. I figured since he's outgrown most of them length wise, and I don't put him in long jeans in this heat, I didn't have anything to lose if this project was a total bust. I made three pairs.
I started by cutting slits in front of where the pant pocket sits (I should have taken more pictures) and on the pant knees. Since this was my first time distressing jeans I hadn't the slightest clue what I was doing, but I just went with it and started scraping away with the fork. The cuts in the jean will start to fray, plus you get a little bonus arm workout in. I made big holes, small holes, and just a few extra distressed marks. I pulled the pant pocket out of the new frayed hole and cuffed the bottoms of the jeans. Sinice I'm not a sewing kind of girl (yet), hot glue is my go-to. I put a dab of hot glue to keep the pocket from riding back up, and another dab to keep the cuffs folded upwards. When I fished the cutting and fraying I filled my bathroom sink with bleach and water (bonus sink clean) and let the jeans soak for about 2 hours. I didn't measure the bleach to water ratio, but you can find that on the back of most bleach bottles. The bleach made the jeans look completely different. If you're going to distress jeans I highly recommend this step.
After the jeans were done soaking I double washed them in hot water. One cycle didn't get the bleach smell out good enough. Threw them in the dryer and viola... distressed jeans that didn't cost a penny.
I may have to try this on one of my old pairs of jeans. I'm pretty happy with how they turned out. Here's the before and after pic...
-S
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