{"id":1272,"date":"2011-09-09T23:04:08","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T22:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2011-09-09T23:06:45","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T22:06:45","slug":"the-big-denim-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/2011\/09\/the-big-denim-project\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Denim Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Denim2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Denim2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Denim2-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> I recently found myself in possession of three pairs of perfectly good jeans (2 adult \/ 1 child) that had all been outgrown by their respective owners. Having done the whole &#8220;denim rag rug thing&#8221; earlier in the year, I decided that I could do without sore hands for the next few weeks and started to look around for other possibilities.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Then I remembered that my beloved denim skirt was wearing out and I hadn&#8217;t been able to find a replacement&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>An hour or so on Google was followed by a trip to buy a few yards of printed cotton. Two days later, I had 2 new skirts, the beginnings of a new bag and 2 new pot-holders.<\/p>\n<p>I followed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sewing.org\/html\/jeans_skirt.html\">this basic pattern<\/a> for the skirts but made them both full length (I like my skirts looong) and unhemmed. One was also made much narrower than the other. <\/p>\n<p>Having worn both for a day or so, I decided that perhaps the narrow one was perhaps a little too narrow for easy walking &#8211; so I&#8217;m now modifying it by opening up the lower side seams &#038; adding two extra pieces. Just have to run it through the machine to finish that off.<\/p>\n<p>I still have to line the bag and add straps but, all in all, not bad for about \u00a38.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently found myself in possession of three pairs of perfectly good jeans (2 adult \/ 1 child) that had all been outgrown by their respective owners. Having done the whole &#8220;denim rag rug thing&#8221; earlier in the year, I decided that I could do without sore hands for the next few weeks and started to look around for other possibilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[64,80,81],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1284,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/1284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}