DIY Weekend! (Saturday)

For my second DIY project of the weekend, I distressed my own jeans. It really is pointless to buy a pair with holes already in them. Get a few years of use out of a nice pair and then make your own cuts.
I combined lots of different tutorials into the inspiration for this project because I wanted the rips done a certain way to my own liking. All of the links to the different references can be found on my Pinterest under the DIY board. (http://www.pinterest.com/madiburke/diy/)

Here's the before. Notice you can actually see natural lighting coming from the window as opposed to the artificial lighting from the after picture... This took all day.

The finished product came out exactly how I wanted it (pretty good for a first attempt, am I right?). Here are some examples of the different types of cuts I made and where.

The key is to make straight, horizontal cuts after trying them on and marking the lines with a pen (with still wearing the jeans). Then, you should pull out each of the vertical strings (Verticals are blue/horizontals are white).
Yes, you pull each blue string out one-by-one... hence "all day").

The first picture at the top of this post features the finished product modeled by moi.