| Funk up a dull drab pair of jeans with a little bit of | | | | brush bristles melt, but the bleach will also be bleaching |
| flower power. Great for kids jeans or hippie ladies | | | | and attacking the fabric of the jeans. Really you want |
| jeans or a project for a teenager, you're bound to be | | | | all the daisies bleached to a similar colour. |
| a trend-setter in funky daisy jeans. Quick and easy to | | | | Reapply bleach to areas you feel needs it. |
| do and not a great deal of artistic flare is needed. | | | | When all the daisies have turned white, immerse the |
| To make daisy jeans you will need… | | | | jeans into a bowl of water and rinse three or four |
| A pair of jeans (cheap jeans are ideal), thick bleach, | | | | times to get all of the bleach out. Do not put them into |
| artists paintbrushes, thick card, scraps of bright fabric | | | | the washing machine because the bleach will perish |
| (look in the patchwork box in your local haberdashery) | | | | the rubber seal of the washing machine. Leave the |
| and a needle and thread. | | | | jeans to dry. |
| Lay the jeans out flat on a table. Move anything from | | | | You can leave the jeans like this, or you can give each |
| the area that would be spoilt should it come into | | | | daisy a coloured centre. |
| contact with the bleach. | | | | Here's how to colour centres… |
| Push some thick card up the inside of the right leg of | | | | Draw around a mug or something onto the back of |
| the jeans. This creates a firm base and prevents | | | | some brightly coloured fabric. Cut out and with a |
| bleach from seeping through to the fabric below. | | | | needle and threads sew a row of running stitches |
| Along the bottom hem and up the side seem of the | | | | around the outside of the fabric circle. Draw the |
| leg to the knee draw 4 to 8 daisies with a biro. The | | | | running stitches up so that the raw edges are drawn |
| flowers can be assorted sizes. Start off with an "O" | | | | in. Flatten the circle out, this is your daisy centre. Adjust |
| shape at the centre and draw six petals or so coming | | | | the tightness of the "Drawing up" to make the centre |
| off from the daisy middle. Just draw the flower heads | | | | bigger or smaller to fit each particular daisy. Sew or |
| - no stalks or leaves. | | | | Wonderwed the daisy centre into place on the jeans. |
| Once you are happy with the design go over the | | | | Use invisible stitching, hemming stitch would be good. |
| daisies with bleach. Pour some bleach onto a plate | | | | Feeling adventurous? |
| (thick bleach is best) and using a paint brush, brush the | | | | Try covering the jeans in daisies, the front and back. |
| bleach over the biro lines. | | | | Or just across the seat of the jeans. The funky design |
| You need to work quickly because not only will some | | | | possibilities are endless. |