This week in Grazia is "Is your denim hot enough?" - Grazia bring us the breaking news that denim is in fashion. I'm not sure when it ever was out of fashion - no doubt during the same microseconds that military or nautical or safari go out of style enough for the magazines to claim that they are BACK!

Now, I'm not going to kid you that I am going to show you how to make a pair of jeans - I haven't even faced a pair of trousers yet. But one thing did catch me eye because it was soooo simple. 

So, for once, you are going to have a Grazia DIY where I actually made it - it took me about 30 minutes.

It's a denim cuff with zip details. Nothing expensive - it only costs £16 but I just made it for free. Here's the original:

The DIY:

1. Take an old plastic bottle and cut out the cuff shape
   
2. Take an old piece of denim (I had just "retired" a pair of jeans which had worn through at the arse) and draw around the cuff shape, then add 2cm all the way around for you base layer
   
3. Cut out the denim and stick to the plastic cuff using a glue gun - stuck the edge down first then went around the cuff with a line of glue about ever 2 cm
   
   
4. I only had a fixed end zip, and only had a red one at that,  around so I pulled off the metal bit at the bottom and removed the zip part (the head?)
   
5. I glued the two piece of zip about 1 cm away from the edge - zip teeth facing outwards. Then to cover the edges I took another piece of the jeans (the other side this time) and stuck it down the middle. I could have embellished it more - but I didn't have anything to hand.

Welcome to the first issue of what I am going to try to do as a weekly feature.  I love my Grazia subscription and pore through it as soon as it arrives on a Tuesday. However, I am always struck by the number of things I could make myself - if I had the skill and, better still, the time.  

Each week I am going to pick one item from that week's Grazia and, while I don't have time to make one, I will at least go through the steps of how to make one.  

The eagle-eyed among you will notice that I am a day late for my first one (today being Thursday) - but it was a bank holiday on Monday so my Grazia arrived on Wednesday.

So today's how to is a bibbed vest from Haute Hippe coming in at a wopping £615.

The uniqueness of the top is the shoulder detailing where an embellished bib is attached to the vest via holes in the shoulders and tied at the back.

So here's how-to:

1. Take an existing vest top or make one from a simple pattern such as Kwik Sew 3523
2. Accurately measure spaces on the shoulders at an equal distance from the shoulder seam to put in the eyelets. Put eyelets through the shoulders - this does take a bit of skill - there is a good how to here eHow - http://www.ehow.com/how_5723664_put-eyelets-clothing.html
3. You now need to make a bib - there has been quite a few great tutorials on this recently for bibs as stand alone necklaces.  I think one of the best is at CraftStylish http://craftstylish.com/item/49230/how-to-make-a-sewn-necklace 
4. Simply thread the ribbon of the bib through the eyelets - plus it can be removed for washing!