My mother’s new fancy pants!

My mom loved my jeans and I loved making them, so I made a muslin up for my mother and proceeded to make her a pair too! I learned a lot when I made mine, so her’s turned out even better! I did not botch up the fly area like I did with mine! I used turquoise thread 2 spool in order to mimic top thread so I can add some color highlights to these jeans to match the gorgeous soft satin I bought for her pocket lining.  I also bought turquoise crystals for the pocket flaps and around the coin pocket for embellishment.

Here are some pics of her jeans and us together.

My hubby bringing my hip mom for a ride 🙂

Designer Jeans Completed!!!

I am so excited! I finished my jeans after 3 long weeks of alterations and cutting, distressing, blue fingers from the dye ahhhhh. lol

My parents are visiting from Canada. I’m so blessed I am able to see them it’s been almost a year. So I may not get many posts up in the next little while….if I do they will be short and sweet 🙂

Here are some pics. Excuse the wrinkled fabric I have been wearing them all day so the close-ups are from this afternoon 😉 Forgot to take pics when they were nicely pressed.

Jean Try On’s

The moment of truth!! I was so excited to baste the side seams and try them on! Wow this stretch denim is ridiculous!! I could lose 2 more inches in the side seams. Note to self (do not use stretch denim for next pair of DIY jeans)

I can’t take these in that much I lose the shape of the jeans and the pockets in the back prevent me from getting rid of that much fabric. I will be lucky if I can get away with taking 1 inch off from the hip down.  Unfortunately because they are so big I know my waist band will gape with this stretch fabric.

Here are a few pics.

I’m still excited about finishing them. It was so much fun and I learned a ton. I am going to fiddle a bit more with the side seam before I make it a final serged edge then distress the side seams. After that I am on to the waist band and almost done my first pair of jeans!!

Constructing the Back of the Jeans

Ok Yesterday and this morning I have been working on the back of the Jeans.  Here is a step by step what I got done.

It was a little nerve-wracking cutting into the jean material but I did it with much enthusiasm!

I attached the back yokes ran the seam allowances through the serger. Distressed my seams and topstitched.

Then I distressed the back toosh area where the pockets are going to go and then sewed up the back center seam and repeated the process of pressing to one side, distressing and topstitching.

Then I played around with the pocket placements for a while and once I was satisfied I topstitched these in place along with the flaps.

Today I hope to cut out my fronts and start working on them. Holy Cow you go through a whole spool of denim thread in no time!! Hmm might have to go to Joann’s I am almost out of thread.