A denim skirt is a basic wardrobe item for every girl. To get a denim skirt, you don't have to go to a store and buy it, or go to a tailor's. How to sew a denim skirt yourself, what you need next.
Necessary materials
To quickly and efficiently sew a skirt yourself using old denim fabric, you need to take:
- electric sewing machine;
- cotton threads that are matched to the denim fabric;
- multi-colored contrasting threads, floss is possible;
- pins with sharp tailor's scissors;
- centimeter with a long wooden ruler;
- tailor's seam ripper with chalk or soap;
- steam iron.
Of course, you need the jeans themselves, from which you plan to make a fashionable skirt. Various rhinestones with sequins, beads, satin ribbons and other accessories may also come in handy.
Please note! Often, when you may need regular needles and threads to create a decorative pattern on the side, ends or pockets of a finished product. When decorating part of a denim skirt with wool inserts, yarn is needed. How to do this, you can see a skirt from old jeans with your own hands master class for an adult.
Instructions for making a skirt from jeans
Today there are many ready-made lessons from skilled craftswomen on how to make a skirt of different sizes from old jeans with your own hands. All you need is:
- Decide what the length of the future product will be, add a few centimeters in reserve, cut off the legs of the jeans to the desired length.
- Rip open the seams along the legs, the center seams located in the front and back.
- Place one leg on top of the other and try to make the fabric flat. It is important to understand that the spread of the middle seams should not be too high. Otherwise, the skirt will look flared. If you make the spread of the seams higher with a larger overlap, you can form a narrower skirt.
- Sew the seams at the back and front, and cut out several pieces from the leg section to insert the wedges. If you cut the vent at the back, you will need one piece.
- Place the click fabric from the wrong side to the front of the skirt and pin it.
- Stitch the front piece along the existing lines left from the denim stitching.
- Repeat the procedure for the back if you do not want to keep the incision.
- Process the edges of the cut pieces and stitch along the existing denim lines.
- Trim off excess fabric from the inside, trim the bottom and finish the edges of the bottom.
In order to turn jeans into a pencil skirt, as in the first case, you must first understand what kind of product you will need to sew. For this, you need a clear pattern of a denim skirt. You can make it maxi in length or cut off the jeans and make the skirt short. Next, you need to rip the seams at the bottom and top and sew in the part at the back. Then put the prepared fabric with the side seams in the center, at the top and bottom. On the sides, those fabric corners will be highlighted, which will be presented as surplus.
They need to be removed and stitched. If you need to make a floor-length product, then it is imperative to cut the product and make slits, since a long skirt will greatly limit body movements. A solid skirt should be five centimeters higher than the ankle to avoid discomfort. If you need a skirt lower than the knees, you can put a zipper in the middle or on the side of the product and, if necessary, adjust the length of the denim product.
Please note! Another interesting option would be to create a skirt from an old sweater-noodle. All you need is to trim the product, preserving the length of the product as much as possible, and then remove the sleeves with shoulders. Sew the necessary openings together.
Short
Supplementing the topic of how to sew a skirt from jeans with your own hands, you need to take loose jeans with a standard fit. You can take trousers with a high waist. The bottom of the product can remain with raw edges, specially a little frayed. To form a creative thing, you need to take:
- a pair of jeans;
- tailor's scissors with a seam ripper;
- pins with threads and a sewing machine.
As in the usual step-by-step instructions, to sew a denim skirt, you first need to decide what the future product will be. Next, you should cut the denim legs to length. Rip the crotch seams with the middle seam. After finishing, trim the seams where they remain straight. Then put one denim part on top of the other in front and try to form a flat canvas by pinning the parts of the denim skirt together with a pin.
The same should be done with the back of the future workpiece. Next, you should sew along all the necessary parts of the cuts from the wrong side and cut off the excess parts of the model. At the end, trim the bottom with scissors. You can use matches to secure the effect, remove the threads and enjoy the result.
Flared
A flared skirt for a young girl, woman or girl can be made by taking wide jeans. For work you will need only the bottom of such trousers. Therefore, the top can be used to form a short pair of shorts. The work scheme in the first case looks like this:
- Take measurements of your waist and hips and decide what length the garment will be. These parameters will help you decide to what extent you will need to trim your trousers.
- Rip the seams and iron each resulting piece of fabric before embroidering. Make a step-by-step pattern from them. It is not difficult to find a pattern diagram.
- Cut out the necessary parts and start sewing them together.
Please note! To decorate a flared item, you can make bows from jeans, a belt, add rhinestones or sequins, sew in patches, etc. If desired, you can make frills, add buttons in the middle, stitch the end of the item, add smooth embroidery, equip it with pockets and buttons, like on regular trousers. An interesting option would be to add textile inserts, for example, in the area where the pockets and frills begin. Items with lacing, like on sneakers, look unique.
Clothes with added fabric patterns, made personally, scuffs and cuts look authentic. Flared skirts with a side fastening, asymmetrical cuts, frills and ribbons reminiscent of part of sweatpants always remain in fashion.
Boho
Today, the fashion of the 70s and 80s is gradually returning, including the boho style. Things that hippies loved to wear are becoming stylish. Therefore, you can always re-cut old jeans with scuffs to make a fashionable thing. All you need to get started is to take jeans and light lace cotton fabric. Attention! It should be remembered that true boho is fabrics of natural origin, so to match the ethnic style, you must abandon synthetics. The product should be sewn from cotton and similar fabrics.
Making a skirt is easy. To do this, you need to rip apart jeans and an old sarafan, cutting off the top, or take a new piece of fabric. Then connect several pieces of fabric together according to a given pattern or one you saw on the Internet, carefully wrap the edges and sew the top to the bottom. A boho skirt can be complemented with different elements.
Please note! To make ethnic clothing more feminine, you can add lace details. You can also wear it with an ethnic accessory around your neck. Lace looks interesting at the ends of the product, in the area of the back and front pockets, diagonally. A lace belt looks authentic.
Boho style clothing can be easily complemented with patches, resulting in a fashionable and bright item. You can sew on randomly or according to a specific design. Short skirts with patches look especially bright. It is also possible to decorate the product with sequins, satin ribbons, beads and rhinestones. There are no restrictions in this style, any decoration option is suitable.
If you have a knitting talent, you can knit the hem of the skirt. You can also complement it with knitted inserts. A particularly interesting solution would be to overlay a separately knitted mesh on denim or to combine a knitted top with a denim bottom. Overlaying denim over knitted clothing looks unique and also practical.
Patchwork
Patchwork is a unique new trend in the line of clothing tailoring. This is sewing using scraps and several types of fabrics. Such things are dynamic, interesting and not pretentious. There is the creation of a skirt in a classic pattern, and there is a fantasy or bizarre one, translated from English. According to the latest technique, the finished patchwork product is decorated with beads, lace and other accessories. With the classic sewing technology, the patch acts as the decoration itself.
Please note! It is interesting to note that from old jeans you can create not only a mini or maxi, but also a blanket, pouf and other things.
Thanks to the art of patchwork, you can make a stylish design from unnecessary items. The algorithm of actions in this case looks like this. First, you need to collect old and unnecessary jeans or fabrics. Cut them into pieces measuring 9 by 11 centimeters and alternately lay out the fabric fragments by color and texture. Then connect each element into a strip and make such strips 3-9, depending on the length and overall design.
At the end, connect the elements together using a sewing machine or a regular needle. Sew in a zipper or add an elastic band with a belt. Hem the bottom part. As a result, you will get creative clothes for your wardrobe.
As stated above, you can diversify an already interesting product with the help of inscriptions, stripes, rhinestones, sequins, ribbons, pieces of different fabrics, machine embroidery. It is possible to complement it with lace inserts or even a whole mesh of yarn. In this case, things with large pockets cut out of former jeans look especially creative.
As for the overall design, the patchwork skirt can be straight, flared, mini, tapered, with a straight and side zipper, with an interesting strong and side slit. It can also have a shorts effect, stretch buttons and snaps along the entire length.
In general, making such an element of clothing as a skirt from jeans is not difficult, the main thing is to use your imagination and act in accordance with one of the instructions above.
