I made two of these as presents for friends. They each use a leg of an old pair of jeans and a couple of old shirts and scraps of fabric.
- Take an old pair of jeans.
- Cut of the waistband or top part with the fly and the bottom leg hems. Keep any scraps.
- Cut into two legs and make the two legs straight.
- Take one leg and applique a design. Use scraps of patterned fabric to add your design. I chose some birds on a branch but you could do hearts or owls. Apply the applique to one of the sides of the leg using zig zig stitch on your sewing machine.
- Turn the leg inside out and sew down the long edge.
- From the scraps cut out two rectangles for each end.
- With the leg still inside out, pin the end to the leg end, right sides together. Sew together.
- Do the same for the other end but only sew half way round.
- Turn the leg inside out.
- Stuff the excluder with scraps of fabric, old tights, wadding or shredded magazines.
- When stuffed had sew the end edges together making sure you tuck under the raw edges.
