How to sew pants in: some simple tips

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:46

It's safe to say that fashion changes almost daily. But not every person can keep up with her trends, because a rare wallet can withstand it. However, you can solve this problem simply by using your hands. This article will show you how to sew in pants and turn them into trendy new panties.

Sewing in flared trousers: preparation

First of all, let's figure out how to sew in trousers, the bottom of which is flared (after all, no one wears pants of this style anymore), and make them classic. To do this, you need to turn the product on the wrong side and lay it out on a flat surface. Next, you need to decide on the width of the trouser leg itself. This is important, because it is this width that will be the bottom of the trousers. The next step: you need to draw with sewing chalk (or a thin remnant) on the leg from the wrong side of the line that indicate the place of the seam. This must be done carefully, evenly and as accurately as possible. Further along this line, the legs are fastened with pins or simply swept away. The unnecessary edge of the trousers is cut off about a centimeter from the seam.

Working on a typewriter

Now about how to sew trousers on a sewing machine. Primarilyyou need to lay a line along the drawn line, while setting the stitch length as desired. Next, wrap the seam allowance. This can be done in different ways:

1. Seams can be laid out and wrapped around separately, or folded and processed together, it depends on the style of the trousers and the thickness of the fabric.
2. As for the overlock itself, if there is no such device, you can handle it with a regular sewing machine. And here again there are two simple options for how to do this:

• using the special overlock foot found on all new machines;
• using a zigzag stitch, setting the smallest step width.

The last, no less important step is to iron the finished product. After steaming, the line drawn in chalk will disappear. Pants ready!

Making tight pants

Tighter bottom pants are fashionable today. Of course, you can buy them, but you can do it more cunningly - create such beauty with your own hands. Now we will talk about how to sew in trousers at the bottom and make them narrower. To turn everything right, you need to perform a few very simple steps similar to the previous ones:

1. First of all, you need to cut off the hem of the hem to work with the entire length of the leg.
2. At this stage, it is important to decide how many centimeters the trousers will be sutured, because the method of suturing depends on this.
3. If you need to narrow your pants quite a bit, you can do this only on one side - the outer orinternal, depending on where it is easier to work with a seam (sometimes it is decorative on one side, and it is very difficult to imitate it at home).
4. The principle of operation is the same as described above: you need to turn the product inside out, draw a seam line with soap (on one side), fasten the legs (with pins or basting), cut off excess fabric, stitch, wrap the edges.
5. So that the trousers, narrowed down to a considerable width, are not distorted, it is necessary to sew in on both sides. The principle of operation is similar, however, the lines are outlined near both seams, internal and external, and always at an equal distance. This is important, because otherwise the pants will look ugly.
6. Bottom hemming. You can lay a stitch or hand seam in the same place. However, somewhat cropped trousers (under the bone) are in fashion today, why not make your tight trousers just like that?
7. The last step is ironing the product.

Belt: method one

Information on how to sew trousers at the waist by a couple of centimeters will also be very useful. First of all, it is imperative to decide on how much you need to reduce the product. Then, on the sides, you need to unpick the belt so as to make small tucks (their size depends on how many cm the product will be reduced). The bottom of the darts will go into the side seams. The next step: we outline the tucks, sew them with a machine line. As for the belt, it needs to be cut along the sides, cut off the excess fabric, stitch along short sections and sew to the product according to the oldlines.

Belt: second method

Is it possible to repair trousers if the product needs to be sewn in a couple of sizes? Of course! To do this, you need to rip off the belt at the very beginning. They need to be sutured along the side seams along the entire length of the legs from the very top to the bottom (symmetrically on both sides). This is done as described above. If it is required to significantly reduce the waist of the trousers, then it is necessary to take them in along the back seam as well. As for the belt, excess fabric is cut off from it, and it is sewn along the upper cut of the trousers to the old place. The product is ready!

Simple rules

And now that there are certain rules for any repair of trousers:

1. Keep in mind that there are different styles of trousers, not all of them can be remade the way you want, and in the end, not all of them will look good.
2. When cutting, you need to use ordinary homemade remnants, so you will not need to wash the product, because the lines are easily removed by steaming with an iron.
3. If you need to make a basting, it is better to do it exclusively with white threads, regardless of the color of the pants. They do not shed as they are not dyed.
4. Don't despair if you don't have an overlock machine at home, you can use the overlock foot that comes with every sewing machine, or just zigzag.
5. When hemming trousers (especially denim), remember to sew with the same stitch length as other decorative seams.
6. At the end, be sure to iron the product.