Mark my words, one of these days you’ll be receiving a postcard from some exotic place with my name on the back. I think somewhere in warm and sunny Mexico would be just the ticket.
I have a feeling it will be happening sooner than I think.
But until then, I brought a bit of the warm Mexican sun home for spring break and paid homage to our southern neighbor by gussying up a plain denim jacket with a vibrant vintage serape.
Click here for the step by step tutorial and your chance to win a zipper pouch made from this vintage serape. Just pin and leave a comment over at ehow and your name will be entered to win. I’ll announce the winner on Saturday, March 29th.
Where are you going for spring break? I’d love to live vicariously through you and hear about your adventures.
Beth
PS. Just a reminder about my live BurdaStyle web seminar coming up on Monday, March 31, 2014.
Refashion: Inspiration and Projects to Revamp and Recycle Your Wardrobe For Less
Even if you can’t watch the live session at 11:00, if you sign up, you will receive the recorded version to watch anytime that works for you.
Hope to see you there!
The Renegade Seamstress 
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Thanks for sharing. I love DIY projects.
fab idea
Thank you, Karen!
Im mexicans and i gotta say that most of the things trying to resemble our mexican heritage fails on the try… But it love how this looks.
I would wear it proudly 🙂
And Beth, Riviera Maya is your place.. Believe me. You will love it
Thank you, Ana! I consider that quite the compliment. And I’m googling Riviera Maya right now!
I really love this! I’m very inspired! Thanks!!
Thank YOU for your nice comment!
Besides loving the colorful fabric, I particularly like your use of the fringe on the back 🙂
I actually debated whether or not to keep the fringe, but my husband loved it and I decided to keep it on. I’m so glad I did! Have a wonderful weekend, Mother Deer!
Ti ringrazio, hai sempre delle belle idee !!!
Siete i benvenuti! Ti ringraziamo per il tuo bel commento! E ‘divertente per me sapere apprezzare questo tutto il senso in Italia. 🙂
It’s so lovely jacket now!
Thank you so much!
I’m really excited about our spring vacation plans. I’m surprising my husband with a trip to Pensacola beach in April as a celebration of him being halfway through police academy. Then I’m headed to Texas to visit my aunt. April should be a fun month.
That sounds like so much fun and it’ll be WARM! Congratulations to your husband, it takes a special person to become a police officer. Enjoy your time together and here’s to SPRING!!!!
Is this Serapa washable?
Hi Jayne,
I was planning on hand washing it with Woolite and cold water then hanging it to dry. Hopefully that will do the trick.
Beth
I have some questions about your upcoming workshop? First of all 11:00 am EST. Is that 7am for West coast? Also will there be anything for us to download and keep or print to help us?
Let me know so I can decide if I want to attend.
Thanks!
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Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 14:56:23 +0000 To: crazy4cars@hotmail.com
Hi Debi,
Thank you for your questions and I hope it works out for you to attend the workshop. The workshop will be at 8:00 for us on the West Coast. And yes, everyone that attends the live web seminar will receive a recording along with other materials that are mentioned during the
seminar. Then you can access it anytime you wish.
Enjoy your Sunday!
Beth
Nice! I really like the fringe, too – glad you kept it!
Thanks Jo! I’m really liking fringe lately, I hope to make a leather fringe bag here soon. Hope spring is heading your way.
oh i love this!
Thank you Nout!
Cute!
Thank you!
How brave of you to cut up a beautiful serape! BTW did someone win the Mr. Rogers Day Cardigan?
Yes, you did!!!
Yay…hooray!!! Thanks so much!
So fun! Love the jacket. I already did my spring break vacation at the bahamas! but this cold weather is really making me wish I could go back *sigh
I love living vicariously through the pictures of your adventures, Miche! Looks like you had a great time in the Bahamas!
That is just adorable, Beth.
Thank you so much!
That is gorgeous but please tell me that serape had massive holes or something. That’s a $200.00 dollar serape you cut up. They are so rare and hard to find now. Even with holes I sell them around $175.00, depending on the design in the middle (and just by seeing the fringe which is almost almost impossible to find in that condition) it could have been worth up to $500.00 dollars. My heart.
HI Kari, I actually bought that on ebay for $15.00. It did have a few holes and stains on it.
Hello, I’d love to try out this step by step tutorial. However, it seems that the link on ehow has been removed. Anyway you could repost it here? I know it’s been a few years and that’s probably why the link is no longer available, but I’d love to follow along and implement it on my old vintage levis denim jacket. Please get back to me! Thank you in advance, looking forward to your reply!
eHow has been slowly transferring the blog articles onto their new site. I’ll check with them and see when they plan on transferring this article and let you know ASAP