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Create these awesome tool organizers or unique gift baskets, using old blue jeans and a glue gun...it's as easy as 1-2-3!

Materials needed:

1. Any size box or bucket (a kitty litter box, utility bucket, or shoe box will work)
2. Old blue jeans (using all different sizes creates different sized compartments)  
3. **Glue gun and glue sticks
4. Coordinating fabric for inside is optional.

**Please note:  It's a good idea to use the low setting on your glue gun, and  if you don't trust yourself, I recommend using a pair of heat resistant gloves that will give you added protection.

First, line the inside of your container using coordinating fabric or blue jean fabric. 

Cut off a long leg portion of a pair of blue jeans, then cut up along the seam, tilting the scissors so you get as close to the seam as possible.  (Save the pocket portion for later.)

Apply the seamed edge along the upper portion of whatever base you're using, overlap it approximately 1-1/2 inches. 

Fold in raw edge and glue it to the other side.

Cut off the bottom excess 1-1/2 inches below the bottom.  Fold it in on the bottom and glue it to the bottom.  You can keep it like this or finish it off with a round piece of blue jean fabric (seams folded in) and glue that to the bottom.  

Cut out pockets by angling the scissors sideways, cutting closely in underneath as close to the stitching as possible, so it will appear that the pocket is sewn on when it is later glue-gunned to the blue jean caddy. 

Notch out a "V" shape about 1/3 down into the pocket.

The width of the notch and how deep you cut down into the pocket will depend on how wide the pocket is, and how much you want the pocket to pucker out.

Next, carefully glue the pocket to the container little-by-little so you don't have to touch the hot glued surface.  Don't forget to bring the v-notched cut sections together.

It is not necessary to cut a "V" notch for attaching pockets to the inside of the bucket, because it will automatically pucker because of the radius of the curve inside.

You can also cut out the whole back portion of the pocket and just glue the pocket on, if you are holding light-weight tools.

Here's a great way to use blue jean pants legs to make separate tool organizers for different sized tools.  You can keep the legs together, and glue them along the sides, thus creating two different sections, or you can cut a leg open and glue it to make one big section.

On this tool caddy, I glue gunned two sections of blue jeans together to fit around a box.  I just kept all the pockets as they were, so I didn't have to cut them and glue them, or add any more.  

I made this blue jean display for my invention, the Bladeater® and use it when I go to trade shows.  It was featured on the Cincinnati Enquirer and the Cincinnati Channel 12 news.

Hey, check out the Bladeater® holster I invented. It has a built-in blade snapper. Snaps and eats segmented utility knife blades using only one hand. Keeps new and used blades safely contained and off the floor.