I am sure just like me, you would have also wished to know how to sew denim jeans for yourself!
You would have checked everywhere for the patterns and measurements to know exactly how can you make a perfect pair of denim jeans for yourself.
I understand your frustration because I have faced that all!
Ultimately, I succeeded in sewing a perfect pair of jeans for myself and that's why I share my Jeans DIY with you.
Method #1 : Use an Old Jeans as Pattern
When you are not comfortable with measurement and making a sewing pattern yourself, then you can use this method of ripping your old jeans.
No Pattern Making Required
This method needs a lot of time ripping off old jeans.
Conclusion:
If you didn't get this method well, then check out second method of making a jeans at home.
Method #2 : Make a New Pair of Jeans using Old Jeans Measurements.
How to Cut Denim Jeans
How to Sew Denim Jeans for Girls or Women
Sew Jeans Zipper
That’s a tough question.
I had to rip my hair off to get myself jeans of my liking - neither too tight nor too loose!
Perfect from the bottom and fitted from waist. Just the way I wanted!
A couple of years back, I bought two pairs of jeans from an upmarket clothing brand.
I was frustrated roaming around the shops because they all keep jeans which are too skinny and I am not fit for them!
Above all, I don’t like myself fitted into jeans, which I don’t like.
I bought two pairs of jeans but I could not feel comfortable wearing either of them.
Ultimately, I decided to make my own jeans at home. The idea was overwhelming. No video tutorial was available on the net.
I had to gather my own resources to get myself perfect jeans. And thankfully I could do that.
That time I was recording my sewing videos for one of my relatives, who wanted to learn sewing from me.
So, I realized when I was needing this jeans tutorial so badly, there could be other people who needed it too! And I made that video public, free for all.
Very soon, I’ll be making new jeans for myself and share on the Stitching Mall YouTube channel you can check it there.
Before you start sewing your denim, it would help if you know a few things about the fabric that you are going to sew.
You may wonder how can a sturdy fabric like denim, which looks thick enough can keep you cool in summers!
Not only cool but it keeps you warm also and most importantly comfortable in your own skin.
But how is it possible because you know that thick fabrics keep you warm in winters and thin fabrics generally keep you cool in summers.
How is this exception?
#1. How Denim makes You feel cool
It is possible because this fabric derives all good characteristics of cotton. It is in fact 100% cotton, which is a natural fiber and skin friendly.
Denim undergoes a different weaving process called twill.
You would have noticed that your Jeans have diagonal lines appearance, whereas in other garments you see straight up and down texture.
You may wonder how the weave affects the look and feel of your denim.
I explained all this, so that you do not stretch your denim at the time of sewing.
#2.What makes your Denim so stretchable
Twill is kind of biased or diagonal running of weave, which increases a fabric’s flexibility and stretch ability. Even this diagonal running of weave or twill has different percentages of twill, which makes your jeans – stretched, perfectly stretched or less stretched.
Bias or True Bias Grain line
#3. Why Indigo is the color of your Denim
We all love that blue jeans in our wardrobe. But, why we have a fixation with this color when there are newer and better colors of jeans available in the market.
The primary reason is that we are grown up seeing jeans in indigo color only and secondly the most important reason is that our brain follows what the crowd does.
We admit it or not – we love to do things the way, people do.
This is okay with today, but what about the time when the first indigo dyed jeans came on this earth.
When we visit history books, we find that indigo was an important part of ancient trades and blue color was rare.
In modern times, several thousand tons of synthetic indigo dye is produced each year but in 19th century, natural Indigo dye was economically available and used.
Anyways, sky is blue so is sea, cooler is denim just like thee. (Oops,my wicked mind going blue).
#4.Is Fading a fad
I still remember the times, when jeans used to fade after a few washes and it used to be quite a fad. This fading effect used to happen because in dyeing process, denim’s warp thread is dyed, while the weft thread is white.
Natural dyes fade whereas synthetics do not.
Over a period of time, the dye lose it’s color and the fading effect step in. Gradually, it happened that fading jeans also became part of the wardrobe apart from other shades of blue.
#5. Are Denim and Jeans Synonyms?
Jeans means trousers or pants. Generally, jeans used to be lighter, casual cotton trousers worn by cowboys in hard and rough days.
When denim came into picture, the first garment piece people could think of it was Jeans. So, the fabric Denim was used to mass produce the garment Jeans, and hence people so widely started using the word Jeans for Denim and Denim for Jeans.
This fabric is used for a lot many purposes apart from making your trousers like jackets, culottes, dungarees or coats to name a few dresses.
Even upholstery is done in this fabric due to the durability of this fabric.
Jeans were not associated with formal dressing though the trend is changing with finer variants of it coming out with every fashion week.
Some work places officially accepting denim not only for their Friday dressing but every day dressing.
This indeed makes it a cool fabric to sport everywhere without the tension of creasing, squeezing,ironing and some people say washing also.
(Though, washing is important to keep bacteria out of your jeans).
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