the blue blog archives: capris!

Success! I was real nervous at first about stitching through all that denim. Alison had warned me in my comments that it could get hairy. But the sharp needle worked like a dream and my little Bernina made it through without a hitch. Despite somehow sewing the front of the ankle opening to the back a couple of times, everything went really well.

I topstitched through the seam allowance, after marking my stitching line with tape, just like my book says to do for topstitching zippers. And then I stitched across the top and ripped the seam. Voila!

Here I am modelling my new old pants in my bedroom mirror. (PS - that's my neglected-of-late knitting basket behind me.)

posted by alison at 3:53 pm | in sew miscellany

Comments

Looks great!

Posted by: eli at April 3, 2003 4:37 PM

Hey, Alison, great work!!!

Using a piece of tape to tame fabric is a great idea. I will have to borrow this idea in the future.

May

Posted by: May at April 3, 2003 4:46 PM

Your jeans look great! I really like your idea to turn them into capris (hmmm, maybe I will just have to do that with some of mine too)

:-)

Posted by: Leigh at April 3, 2003 6:11 PM

Oh those turned out so niiiiiiiice!!! If I didn't admire your work so much. You'd be the kind of person I would love to hate! LOL!

Yeah, that is said in a good way! ;)

Posted by: ~Jo~ at April 3, 2003 7:32 PM

they look great! and now you get to start the summer with a *new* pair of jeans! how fun!

Posted by: carolyn at April 3, 2003 9:38 PM

congratulations! they look great--I'm glad that the Bernina was up to the challenge.

Posted by: other Alison at April 4, 2003 12:45 PM

the capris turned out great. very clever idea. i always just end up donating my old jeans. but now i can try capris or shorts or even one of those pants-to-skirt projects. i like th eidea of the tape too. what book is that from?

Posted by: melissa at April 4, 2003 8:09 PM

Thanks everyone! The capris were such a quick, fun project. And now I love my old jeans again. Yeah! Maybe someday I'll be skilled or brave enough to try some of the other ideas you all suggested, like shortening the pants or doing the skirt from pants thing. For now this was the perfect little confidence-building adventure!

The tape thing was in Singer Sewing Essentials, the book with all the pictures (I need pictures!), and that was how they suggesting marking where to sew a lapped zipper.

Posted by: alison at April 4, 2003 8:19 PM