I have some of the most darling little nephews. One of them happened to turn two recently. I stumbled across this project shortly after he was born and I’ve been anxiously waiting for him to get old enough to actually play with them.
Missy from How Does She shared a tutorial on how to make roads from old denim jeans.
Thankfully, we’ve been on a cleaning spree and I had a handful of my husband’s jeans available to be chopped into road sized pieces. A quick trip to Wal-mart provided a roll of kitchen drawer liner. I had mod podge and yellow paint on hand.
To begin, I created pattern pieces for the 4 shapes I wanted to make.
Using the patterns, I traced and cut out road pieces from 2 pairs of jeans and the kitchen drawer liner. Making certain that I had the same pieces cut from both materials.
To join the jeans and liner, I spread mod podge on the liner and carefully placed the denim pieces over the liner.
For added durability, I zigzag stitched around the outside of each road piece. The original tutorial used hot glue to secure the edges. I couldn’t find my glue gun or I would have tried that method too.
Finally, I painted yellow lines down the center of each piece.
Of course, I couldn’t send it off without testing it.
