{"id":400,"date":"2007-08-07T19:55:32","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T00:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=419"},"modified":"2018-11-16T13:17:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T20:17:37","slug":"jenny-sigler-school-gear-and-fashion-accessories-from-thrift-store-jeans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2007\/jenny-sigler-school-gear-and-fashion-accessories-from-thrift-store-jeans\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenny Sigler &#8212; School Gear and Fashion Accessories from Thrift Store Jeans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/jennyschoolgearbig.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-590\" title=\"Jenny Sigler -- School Gear and Fashion Accessories from Thrift Store Jeans\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/jennyschoolgear.jpg\" alt=\"Jenny Sigler -- School Gear and Fashion Accessories from Thrift Store Jeans\" width=\"500\" height=\"382\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looking back, I get the feeling that more folks had the D-I-Y spirit in the 1970s than in any period since. Even as kids my friends and I were customizing our bikes. You know, choppers with homemade forks, swapping parts from other bikes, etc. Other than the lowrider crowd I can&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve seen a kid do that since then. Of course, the grown ups were getting down too. Mary&#8217;s mom once made a giant set of floor pillows that looked like a massive hamburger. Separate bun pillows, beef patty, lettuce, special sauce(?). Oh yeah, it&#8217;s true. I gotta find a pic of that. Anyhow, my mom is <em>still<\/em> getting down. Her most recent project is a set of baseball-themed school organizers for my son and a purse with a horse motif for my daughter. What the two sets have in common is that Mom went to the thrift store to find some old jeans to use for the fabric. Why? &#8220;Because kids like pockets.&#8221; I heard that. And that&#8217;s especially true when Mema uses pockets to make something original and handmade.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody should be doing stuff like this. Go make something.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tracysigler.com\/2008\/08\/06\/jenny-sigler-handmade-felted-purse\/\">More by Mom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back, I get the feeling that more folks had the D-I-Y spirit in the 1970s than in any period since. Even as kids my friends and I were customizing our bikes. You know, choppers with homemade forks, swapping parts from other bikes, etc. Other than the lowrider crowd I can&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve seen a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[354,348],"tags":[373,383,446,422],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-friends","category-handmade","tag-craft","tag-fashion","tag-handmade","tag-sewing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3537,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/3537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}