| You need only a few supplies to make dismantling or | | | | possible. If your jeans are heavily soiled, you have to |
| altering your denim jeans a nice experience. These | | | | thoroughly wash them as dirt can cause trouble to the |
| include a sewing machine, heavy duty machine | | | | sewing machine as well as to the sewing mechanism. |
| needles, hand-sewing needles, a thimble, a yardstick, a | | | | Sewing Tips for Altering Jeans |
| flexible tape measure, a cotton sewing thread, a fabric | | | | Cut out excess fabric for secondhand jeans without |
| marking pen, pattern or tracing paper, long pins and | | | | hesitation. Usually fabric is stretched in the thigh or |
| pincushion, small sharp embroidery scissors and sharp | | | | knee areas. When the jeans are lying on a flat |
| scissors twenty to twenty-five cm long. | | | | surface, it is easy to spot these areas. Cut them if you |
| How to Use a Sewing Machine | | | | do not want problems at the time of assembling parts. |
| In the process of altering jeans a sewing machine is | | | | To sew over or near the seam can be a challenge as |
| the most significant tool, thus it should be kept in proper | | | | double-fold jean seam is usually very dense. Keep the |
| order, well oiled, clean. When you work with | | | | presser foot level to avoid broken needles and |
| heavy-duty fabric, such as denim textile, do not forget | | | | skipping stitches. If a seam is very bulky to put it under |
| to refer to instruction manual. To avoid missing | | | | a presser foot, place it on a hard surface and hit it with |
| stretches and tangled thread, you have to ensure that | | | | a hammer a few times. |
| bobbin case is free from lint. | | | | If you want to cut different patterns from your denim |
| One of the most important items that cannot be | | | | jeans, lay flat or press a wrinkled textile. |
| overlooked is the correct needle. Use only heavy-duty | | | | Lapped seams are not so bulky as two edges are |
| or leather needles so that the stitches are formed | | | | overlapping and then stitched in place. Two parallel |
| correctly. Be sure to remove all pins so that they do | | | | rows of stitching are advised to secure this seam. |
| not pass under a presser foot. If it happens, your | | | | When you join fabric pieces, stitch along a decent |
| needle gets bent and thus it can cause skipped | | | | seam path, and if the seam line is not straight, little |
| stitches and additional damage to a needle plate or | | | | dimples will appear along the finished seam. |
| bobbin case. Replace damaged needle as soon as | | | | |