If anyone is short of ideas for old jeans, here is another way to recycle them, a car seat cover. I made this for the back seat of the truck to help protect it from a very adorable but sometimes dirty "man's best friend", our 70 pound 2 year old dog.
Made 4 mugrugs for may sisterdaughter who will be 40 in april. Show you bakside also
When I had the shams quilted I finished them, (they have the red strip on them) so that if I was using a quilt without red then, I could turn them over and use the plain white side.