Do-it-yourself jeans restoration

When a favorite thing is torn, it seems to us that finding a good replacement for them may not work. However, it is not always necessary to look for a replacement, because you have the opportunity to do the restoration of jeans with your own hands, without leaving your home. There are many interesting ideas for this. In addition, even a beginner needlewoman can cope with this task.

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Repair Methods

There are a number of jeans repair methods that you need to know and apply depending on the size of the abrasions and holes on the material. In each case, it is necessary to have special threads used on jeans - they can be purchased at needlework stores:

• Stacking. This method of repairing jeans is the easiest. Most often, this method is used for scuffs, and not for holes.
• Sewing patches is a combined method of restoration, including the previous method with the preliminary use of the desired patch. The craftswomen adapted it for the design of things in the patchwork style.

Important! In both methods of repairing jeans with their own hands, use a zigzag seam. It is the strongest and in the arrangement of stitches can resemble the arrangement of thin threads in the yarn. For this reason, you must have a sewing machine to work with jeans. Manually this seam is almost impossible to make efficiently and correctly.

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Stuffing

Turn the garment inside out to see if scuffing needs to be repaired. Usually they appear only where the fabric has become somewhat lighter, spools have appeared. Often they are observed in the area between the legs, near the pockets, on the knees.

Important! In the event that the main yarn has already been torn, the workpiece must be immediately chopped, otherwise the weft will break through.

The process itself is as follows:

1. The scuffed area is leveled. The warp thread should be in the longitudinal position, and the weft in the transverse.
2. Excessive interfering threads are cut.
3. Zigzag seams begin to do, moving from the top of the scuff to the bottom.
4. The seams are placed until the abrasion is completely closed with a “zigzag”.

Important! When choosing a sewing machine, you must pay attention to the presence of reverse mode. It is able to greatly facilitate the process of packing. In the absence of this mode, you will have to turn the jeans over every time after completing one or another seam.

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Remove the holes

The technology of this workshop for the restoration of jeans using patches will vary in some way - it all depends on where exactly the jeans are torn. As a rule, pants are torn in places subject to friction or stretching.

Important! Sew the patch on a sewing machine - so the work will be performed as efficiently as possible. It doesn’t matter what model it will be, it can be either old, handmade, or modern.

In addition to the sewing machine, you need to prepare:

• A piece of denim of the desired color.
• Threads.
• Scissors.
• Safety pins.

Between the legs

Remove the hole between the legs as follows:

• Before moving on to the main job, you need to give the hole a suitable look. For this purpose, you need to cut off all the protruding threads, after which the edges of the gap are swept away with each other - this is necessary so that it does not continue to tear further. You need to do this manually. Stitches are made frequent, but at the same time, wide.

Important! Do not sew tight.The damaged area must be swept away as smoothly and evenly as possible.

• Cut the patch to the desired size and shape. It is important that it be slightly larger than the hole itself. The patch will be sewn from the inside of the jeans - this is necessary so that the repair of jeans with your own hands is almost imperceptible.
• First you need to fix a piece of patch fabric in the right place using safety pins. So you will not need to constantly monitor the patch displacement during the restoration process.
• Turn on the sewing machine, thread the thread, proceed to tacking, as described earlier.
• At the end of the work, fasten and cut the thread. The hole between the legs is repaired.

On my knees

In these places, jeans are most often damaged in children. Buying a new thing every time it breaks would be very costly. For this reason, it is easier to repair a damaged item - it will take literally a couple of hours.

Any patch on the knee will always be noticeable, even if it is made by the most skilled craftsman. It is for this reason that you are offered a way to restore jeans, where the patch will become a stylish design element.

For this purpose you will need:

• A piece of denim in a contrasting tone. For example, a patch of bright blue denim will look spectacular on black jeans.
• Threads of the desired color.
• Safety pins.
• Sharp scissors.

You can repair children's jeans on your knees, observing the algorithm:

• Decide on the dimensions of the patch, cut the desired fragment.

Important! It is necessary that the patch be the width of a leg, about 15 cm long. In addition, do not forget to leave an allowance for hem (0.5-1 cm).

• Bend the patch around the edges, sweep.
• Sew the sweeping piece of fabric to the leg. It is best to do this procedure on a sewing machine.

Important! If you sew such a patch on the second leg, the result will look finished and aesthetically pleasing.

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Stock footage

Nowadays, people very often throw away things that have lost their presentation. However, few people know that old things can be given a completely new look, to breathe new life into them. From this article you learned how to restore jeans with your own hands, which means you now have an idea of ​​how to double the life of your favorite item.