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Sewing Jeans: The Complete Step-By-Step Guide

The ultimate guide to sewing your own jeans. Take your denim making skills to the next level with the help of clearly illustrated, step-by-step instructions and insider techniques for a professional result.

Includes a Bonus Pattern Booklet! The Ebook also has a separate booklet with PDF Patterns and Templates for different pocket styles, zip and button fly closures and more.

Making your own jeans doesn’t have to be hard, with the techniques shown in the ebook Sewing Jeans you’ll be able to sew a great looking pair of denim jeans that are uniquely you.

Using home sewing equipment and with multiple assembly options, the instructions in Sewing Jeans are geared towards both beginners and more experienced makers

Over 30 illustrated step-by-step jeans sewing tutorials
Jeans pattern alterations instructions
Guides to fabrics, notions and tools
Stitching and seam techniques for jeans

Note that this is the ebook version

Pattern alterations and adaptations

How to fix common fit issues
Skinny jeans adaption
Boot-cut jeans
Selvedge jeans with straight outer seam
Flared jeans
How to draft a curved waistband

Seam and stitches

Complete guide to all seams and stitches for jeans
Sewing flat-felled seams
How to master topstitching
Techniques for sewing bar tacks

Fabrics

Guide to different denim fabrics
How to pick the right fabric for your project
Caring for denim
Denim and the environment

Tutorials

Front pockets (2 versions)
Back pockets (attaching and decorative stitching)
Zip fly (2 versions)
Button fly
Yoke and crotch (flat-felled and regular)
Side seams
Waistband (curved and rectangular)
Belt loops (5 different methods)
Sewing buttonholes
Attaching buttons and rivets
Hemming jeans (3 different methods)

AND MUCH MORE!

Interactive pdf that can be read on any device. Includes internal reference links and also links to corresponding video tutorials.

192 pages

Sewing Activewear: How to Make Your Own Professional-Looking Athletic Wear

The ebook Sewing Activewear is the ultimate sewing guide for creating your own workout clothes that are both functional and stylish.

Fully illustrated step-by-step tutorials covering everything from beginner techniques and professional fashion industry methods.
Comprehensive activewear fabric chapter and extensive guides to the best seams on every household sewing machine.
And plenty more!

Content

Fabrics and notions for activewear

Fabric types
Stretch, weight and compression
Activewear fabrics and the environment

Notions

Thread
Elastic
Needles

Seams for activewear

Seam guides for every machine
Seam allowances
Serger overlock seams
Sewing machine stretch seams

Seams for hemming (incl. chapter on coverstitching)

Sewing machine hems
Coverstitch hemming
Flatlock hems
Flatlock seams
Flatlock on a serger
Sewing machine mock flatlock seam
Faux flatlock using a coverstitch machine

Projects (over 25 fully illustrated tutorials)

Sleeves with thumbholes
Fold-over elastic
Card pocket
Ties and strings
Knit binding
Ribbing
Elastic openings
Cords and drawstrings
Crotch gussets
Waistbands pockets
Zipper pockets

186 pages

EBOOK FORMAT

Interactive PDF format that can be read on any device. Includes internal reference links and links to corresponding video tutorials.

The books can be printed on a regular printer.

PRINT BOOK VERSIONS

Note that this listing is only for the digital ebook versions of Sewing Jeans and Sewing Activewear. If you rather want a print version, you'll find the books in many bookstores and several sewing shops:

Sewing Jeans Print Version

Sewing Activewear Print Version

Sewing Jeans + Sewing Activewear – Ebook Bundle (PDF)