Second hand: alter clothes

Repair of clothes is relevant at all times, and darning jeans is one of the easiest and most important sewing lessons that beginner tailors should master at the stage of familiarization with a sewing machine.

If you do not sew all the clothes with your own hands, then the value of the skill of patching holes and scuffs on children's and adult trousers cannot be converted into money.

As you may have guessed, in this video tutorial on sewing, we will talk about holey jeans and their restoration.

Almost every woman in our country has to be able to do such repair of clothes in our country.

And you will probably be surprised, but the ability to darn clothes was once considered as worthy of a ladies' occupation as tapestry embroidery. The art of darning was taught even to girls from noble families.

Let's try and we will master one of the ways of patching holes on jeans worn between the legs ...

This alteration option is suitable for any dress with reliefs.

It is important that after such an improvement, the dress becomes almost dimensionless and is suitable not only for ladies who tend to gain weight, but also for pregnant women.

In the photo you see the dress already altered: the middle part is replaced by wedges from the companion's fabric.

This easy-to-implement idea is suitable for reworking a sheath dress, as well as other symmetrical styles.

By inserting one strip 5 cm wide, we, taking into account all allowances, increase the volume of the dress by 1 cm.

A strip of 6 cm - respectively by 2 cm, a strip of 7 cm - by 3 cm.

If more magnification is needed, 2 strips are required.

There is another very important point that I would like to dwell on.

The vast majority of people recover conditionally forward, therefore, to increase the product, it is often enough to increase only the shelf.

A uniform increase in the shelf and backrest is also possible.

Vera Olkhovskaya

Jeans Prep: rip off the belt, cut off or open the side and crotch seams, cut off the seam of the seat and bottom.

Leave the pocket of PP "cutting barrels" - we use it in the product.

At the end of the PP and ZP jeans should be ironed well.

Preparation of vest patterns (see the construction of a drawing of a men's vest) getting started from the construction of the shelf relief.

This is done on the pattern of the base of the vest.

Divide in half the shoulder section of the shelf and the segment located on the horizontal of the barrel from the corner of the armhole to the half-skid.

Needless to say, jeans are a cult of our time. They are worn by everyone - from fashionistas to beggars.

Let's try to alter jeans - to make small ones out of large ones.

The proposed method allows you to reduce jeans by 2 - 4 sizes.

For a larger reduction, you will have to remove the rivets and / or rip off the factory fasteners from the side seams, front and back pockets, and completely rip off the belt.

But this is laborious and can ruin the product.

Therefore, for a greater reduction, the method of completely redrawing the product is more appropriate. But back to our simple version of the alteration.

We need big jeans and jeans that fit.

Scuffs of jeans turning into small holes: cut out a patch from dublerin in place so that it goes on a “healthy” fabric by 2-3 cm and stick it from the inside out;

from the face - one more layer from the same fabric as the whole product or, if there is none, from dubbing with a 1-2 cm approach to the "healthy" one.

Then, with a dense wide zigzag, fill in the hole and attrition.

There are subtleties: it is better to cut the dubbing edge with serrated scissors;