How to Make Cute DIY Denim Bracelets & Cuffs Out of Old Jeans

Tools and materials:

• Old denim jeans
• Ruler
• Scissors
• Sewing needle and thread
• Threading beads or buttons
• Velcro

DIY flowered denim cuff bracelet

1. Make the flowers

Cut a strip of denim from a good, intact part of your old jeans, measuring 25 x 5 centimeters (9.8 x 2 inches.)

Pull threads from both long edges of the strip to get a frayed, ruffled edge.

With the right side facing out, fold the denim strip in half lengthwise. But not exactly in half. You want one frayed edge to lay just above the other frayed edge.

Now, insert a threaded needle through the top of the fabric at one end of the strip and bring it up again through the top about 1 centimeter (0.4 inches) along.

Continue pulling the thread along the edge in the same manner, pushing the fabric onto the needle in little folds as you go. 

When you reach the other end of the strip, pull the thread so that the whole strip pulls into a circle. Join the two ends of the circle by sewing them together. 

Now you have a denim flower with two rows of ruffling on the outer edge.

Pull the two layers of denim apart a bit to make the flower a little fluffy.

Repeat to make three more denim flowers. Find buttons or beads with a hole in the center that will cover the hole in the center of each flower and reserve them for later.

2. Make the cuff

Cut another strip of denim 27 x 7 centimeters (10.6 x 2.8 inches.)

With right-side facing in, fold the strip in half lengthwise. Hand-sew the strip closed along the long edge and one short edge.

Use a pen to help you turn the strip right-side-out. 

Sew small pieces of Velcro to each end of the denim strip to use as a cuff bracelet closer.

3. Attach the flowers to the cuff

Decide where you want to position each flower on the cuff bracelet.

To attach the bead or button to the flower and the flower to the cuff all at the same time, start by pulling a needle and threading the flower, then thread the button or bead onto the needle.

Next, put the needle back through the flower from top to bottom. Now the bead is securely attached to the flower.

Using the same needle and thread attach the bead and flower to the bracelet cuff. Repeat with the rest of the flowers.

DIY beaded denim cuff bracelet

1. Make the cuff 

Cut a 50 x 4.5-centimeter (19.7 x 1.8 inches) strip of denim from your old jeans.

Fray both long edges of the strip as you did with the DIY flowered denim bracelet.

Use a marker to mark off every centimeter (0.4 inches) along the length of the denim strip.

Pass a needle and thread down and then up at 1-centimeter intervals. Every time you come up with the needle, pull the thread tight so the denim ruffles up.

Then, thread a small bead onto the needle before you go down through the denim again.  

Fold the ends in and attach Velcro to both ends of the bracelet for a closer.

2. Add a flower

Make a denim flower just as you did for the flowered bracelet and attach it with a bead to the center of this beaded denim bracelet. 

Denim bracelets DIY tutorial

These are so cute and fun! Just like a favorite pair of jeans, they are really comfortable to wear. Kids would love them too! Leave a comment to let me know how your DIY denim bracelets turned out.