Denim Scraps

Use these mindfully curated Denim Scraps as a bundle of inspiration and action for your next small visible mending or slow stitching project. Ideal when you only need a small amount of texture and colour to transform your denim clothes.

The denim scrap bundles help reduce our massive textile waste problem through upcycling to mend the clothes and things we love and choose to keep wearing.

Each bundle is uniquely different. Denim has been washed in low tox, fragrance free washing powder and line dried in the fresh air. I endeavour to include a range of denim fabrics that complement each other.

Due to the nature of these bundles as fabric remnants, I don’t always know what the fabric material is – it could be plain denim cotton, or include a blend of cotton with elastane.

Choose between five bundle types: – Teeny Tiny, Small Square, Medium Square, Small Long and Large Long.

What’s Included

• Large Long Bundle: 5 x longer pieces, including one full leg length (up to crotch and one side only) plus four other variable length rectangular pieces
• Small Long Bundle: 5 x longer pieces, varying between Length 21cm x Width 10cm
• Medium Square Bundle: 5 x approx. square pieces, ranging in a balanced size range between 4″ and 9″ squares.
• Small Square Bundle: 5 x approx. square pieces, ranging in size between 4″ and 6″ squares.
• Teeny Tiny Scrap Bundle: A mix of approximately 20g of denim scraps

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Discover more supplies for your visible mending projects here at ReNewy Living, such as bodkins, scrap fabric bundles, fabric offcuts & remnants, sew on patches, and mens vintage ties.

Read more about which books I recommend to get your visible mending started, as well as articles about ways to reducing textile waste, such as upcycling t-shirts and knowing what to do with miscellaneous clothing waste.

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