NEW SHORTS FROM OLD JEANS

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What can be done in ten minutes? Not so much. For example, watch a commercial with a piece of news, take your time to take a coffee, take a quick shower, collect a tiny Lego car, light a fire from ready-made materials, change a punched car wheel for a spare wheel ... And you can also sew new shorts from old trousers ! Thus, “kill a few birds with one stone” in one fell swoop: to utilize an unnecessary, but dear to your heart, purchase a stylish new thing for free, save time searching for the desired wardrobe item in stores. The main thing is that the new shorts will be perfectly tailored to your size.
Materials for work:
• Old denim pants - 1 pc.;
• Sewing machine, scissors, pins for chips.
Stages of the work:
The first stage: we cut off old trousers.
We measure the necessary length of future shorts on one leg (just bending the excess). Recommended length of denim shorts: just below the knee (or very short, three to four centimeters below the buttock line).

Carefully fold both leggings along the side seam and transfer the line of measuring the required length of the shorts to the second leg. We cut off the unnecessary length by stepping back two or three centimeters from the measurement line down the leg (this is an allowance for the seam).

Similarly cut the second leg.

The second stage: we form a hem on the bottom of the parts.
In order to avoid shedding of the edges of the fabric, we form a hem. To do this, along the perimeter of the entire leg, we bend the tissue inwards by about one centimeter. A prerequisite for proper bending is the combination of the side seams of the main part and the hem (otherwise the hem will become wavy after hemming).

We make one more bend in the width of one - one and a half centimeters. It turns out double bending, crumbling edge of the fabric remains deep inside.

Pins off the formed bend. To avoid bending roughness or mixing seam lines, you can make a basting stitch with large stitches.

In the same way we process the edge of the second leg.

Stage three: we sew the hem of the bottom of the legs.
We set the sewing machine's foot on the fabric so that its movement goes along the very edge of the bend.

We make a seam all the way to the thick side decorative seam (in this place the thickness is triple and the needle of the machine cannot cope with it).

Raise the foot of the sewing machine and unfold the fabric ninety degrees. We make several stitches (so that the needle does not reach the parallel edge of the bend by half a centimeter).

Again, unfold the fabric ninety degrees. Set the foot of the machine so that it moves along the other edge of the bend.

We sew the bend all the way into the thick side decorative seam from the back. We repeat all the turns and make a line to the place where the bending started.

On the wrong side, a thick bend can be sewn to the base manually.

So the work is done! With a minimum of effort, the maximum result is obtained! Quick, easy, convenient. The main thing: stylish, because denim is a classic that is always in fashion!