How To Repair Frayed Elastic Cuffs
mangoandpersimmon asked:
What practise you advise to mend ribbed cuffs on hoodies? I have plenty of hoodies and unfortunately there are holes on my cuffs. I take no idea how it happened either.
Honestly? Whenever that happens to mine, I never know how it happened, either.
Mending ribbed cuffs:
It might not seem similar it because the knitting'southward often very pocket-size, but ribbed cuffs are usually knitted cuffs. This means they stretch, something we'll have to take into account when mending them.
There's a few ways you could mend these cuffs. Let'south accept a look:
Techniques:
If it'due south a small hole, get some matching thread and fix up the hole with a ladder stitch. You could leave it similar that, or hide your mend past embroidering over it.
(Prototype source) [ID: a greyness sleeve with a ribbed gage covered in embroidered red roses with green vines and leaves.]
You could also sew together a patch over the hole. Note that big patches may make your cuff less stretchy.
(Epitome source) [ID: a gray cuff with a black round patch sewn onto it with bluish thread.]
If the cuff'due south border is fraying badly, y'all could also embroider over the border, or stitch on a new strip of fabric (note that these fixes may end your cuff from stretching).
(Image source) [ID: gray ribbed cuffs with pink embroidery on the edges.]
(Prototype source) [ID: a yellow jacked with a patch of reddish tartan material covering the frayed border of ane of the cuffs.]
Another option is to darn your cuff. Use matching thread to minimise the visibility of your mend, or contrasting thread to brand your mend a design element.
If you lot use a woven darning technique, the cuff will look prissy but you'll lose some of your stretch. If your cuffs' knitting isn't too tiny, you lot tin avoid this by using Swiss darning or a indistinguishable run up instead, depending on the type of damage you lot're trying to repair.
(Image source) [ID: visible mending: how to mend cuffs and edges by Collingwood-Norris. 3 knit cuffs prevarication on height of each other, each darned with contrasting thread.]
If all fails, you'll accept to replace the cuffs.
You'll find ribbed material or fifty-fifty replacements cuffs at most craft stores. Of course, you could also remove a cuff from a dissimilar hoodie and sew it onto the one yous're trying to repair, or try to find a worn-out ribbed garment that could be cutting upwards for a new gage. Old socks are not bad for this.
(Image source) [ID: a six stride guide on how to supercede the gage of a sweatshirt.]
If you lot're a knitter, you could also knit your ain cuff! Remove the damaged gage from your hoodie (with a seam ripper if possible, but just cutting them off is an option too). Either choice upwardly stitches on your existing sleeve and knit a new gage in the round, or knit a separate cuff (either in the round, or direct and sewn together) and sew information technology onto your sleeve once it'southward finished.
(Epitome source) [ID: a gray sleeve with a colourful knitted cuff fastened at the end.]
Conclusion:
Holes in cuffs happen a lot. They're near our hands, and nosotros use our hands all the time, then they get snagged easily. If my suggestions seem a lilliputian daunting, just stick to a adept old ladder stitch and you lot'll be fine. If not: be equally artistic as you desire!
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Crafting on the cheap
Introduction:
When you lot want to learn how to mend or make clothes, the costs of tools and materials might seem daunting. However, it doesn't have to be!
Mending your wearing apparel is a great way to relieve money. Every piece you mend is a piece y'all don't have to buy afresh.
Every bit for making clothes from scratch, the materials and especially the time yous invest in your craft might non weigh upwards to ownership fast fashion. That'southward true. However, in that location are means to at least go on the costs of your materials down.
Making your ain clothes does have ane fiscal edge over fast way: as you get better, the items you produce will cease up being of much improve quality than your average fast mode piece. They'll last longer, which means you'll have to buy new things less often.
Different fast fashion, everything you brand volition be unique, too!
How to keep things cheap:
Tools: needles, embroidery hoops, fabric scissors, crochet hooks, seam rippers, chalk, rulers, pins, darning eggs, maybe fifty-fifty a sewing automobile,… All things y'all might want when yous're just starting out.
- If y'all're completely new and aren't certain if yous want to invest in any tools yet, inquire effectually if you can borrow some of these items. Perchance your crafty friend will lend you their hoop, or possibly you've got a community centre nearby that has sewing machines available to the general public. Some libraries besides run tool libraries, which are well worth a bank check if y'all're starting a new craft or fifty-fifty looking to remodel your home.
- Don't skimp out on sewing needles. A good sewing needle is worth its weight in gold. Edgeless or ragged needles volition cause you much frustration, and they'll impairment the particular yous're working on.
- As for cloth markers: you could invest in some good tailor's chalk or water-soluble fabric markers, only you could also but use sideboard chalk or an old piece of soap. These volition give you less precise lines as they're thicker than tailor'southward chalk, simply they marking well and wash out easily. Don't use annihilation like a biro or a crayon, though. They volition permanently stain your material.
- Check if you have a local freecycle group: if you're lucky, you lot may discover people who only quit their craft and are giving away all of their tools.
- Second-hand shopping is your friend! A lot of thrift stores have a crafting department. I've managed to get most all of the common knitting needle sizes for €5 at my local austerity shop, for example. If you don't take a physical shop nearby, bank check out online second-paw platforms like Facebook Marketplace, Ebay, Vinted, Poshmark, Depop, or whatever your local equivalent is.
- Note that if you terminate up ownership a second-paw sewing machine, you lot still may have to spend some actress money on maintenance or repair, depending on the state of the machine.
- While this blog promotes reusing as much as possible, information technology'south also important to admit that'due south not e'er an option. Y'all'll occasionally notice cheap tools at shops like the one euro shop, Dollar Tree, 100 yen shop,… Whatsoever your local equivalent is. Honestly, if you use your tools until they pause (or sell/give them away in one case you lot're washed with them), it's okay. You'll be using them to salve other resources by mending your wearing apparel, which will offset the use of your new tools.
Notions: thread, buttons, zippers, ribbons, lace, interfacing, elastic, bias tape, embroidery floss, chaplet,… You can't get started without whatsoever bones notions your project requires.
- Merely like needles, don't skimp out on thread. Weak thread that breaks easily is frustrating to work with and volition crusade your mends to deteriorate faster.
- Once more, check the crafting section of local/online second-mitt shops and ask effectually in freecycle groups. You'll frequently find people selling/giving away their notions.
- Speaking of austerity stores: a lot of second-paw shops receive more donations than they can sell due to overproduction in the fast fashion manufacture. My local shop even holds regular €one sales just to get rid of their excess stock. And so, don't feel bad about buying garments just to repurpose parts of them for your craft projects. Whatsoever you don't apply now tin go into your stash for hereafter projects. If you encounter uncommon sizes or inability aids, or if y'all alive in an area with specific shortages, maybe leave those items for people who demand them more than y'all practise. Apart from that, everything'southward free game.
- Don't throw annihilation away. Employ your broken garments as a source of raw materials, instead. Your moth-eaten blouse probably has buttons y'all can repurpose. The lace on that lingerie set with the broken bra hook can exist used to modify other underwear, or to cover upwards a pigsty in your favourite dress. That hoodie that ripped terminal week? If the zipper's still fine, information technology'due south perfect to fix up a different hoodie with.
Patterns: if you lot're new to your craft, you're probably looking for skilful patterns to follow, but fifty-fifty those you tin can often get for free.
- Got a favourite garment that fits you like a glove? Y'all can indistinguishable the pattern and brand your ain version of it.
- Looking for free knitting/crochet patterns? Make a Ravelry account. They have a huge drove of both free and paying patterns available.
- Need free sewing patterns? Check out sites like Freesewing.org.
- Invest time into making proper design blocks for your torso if you've already got some pattern drafting experience under your belt. One time you've got a few good bones patterns, you can modify them into annihilation you want them to be.
- Check if your local library has pattern books.
- Look up vintage patterns online. Sites like Gallica or Archive.org have plenty of magazines and fifty-fifty old sewing manuals available for gratuitous.
- Don't forget about Pinterest! At that place's plenty of complimentary patterns to be plant there, too.
- Ask your crafty friends if they accept a pattern you can borrow.
- Larn how to draft your own patterns, or how to stitch/knit without patterns! Information technology takes some experience, only once y'all've got a good grip on the basics, it's easier than information technology looks.
Materials: good quality fabric and yarn are expensive. That's a fact we can't change. What we tin can practice is look into cheaper sources of materials.
- I've mentioned second-manus shopping multiple times in this mail service, and I'll do it again. Information technology'south an absolute goldmine of raw materials.
- Hunting down cheap yarn? Expect for people who simply quit knitting and are selling their yarn collection online. Browse your local austerity store for sweaters fabricated of nice yarn that you tin unravel into a new skein. Also bank check the store'due south arts and crafts section for unused skeins, while y'all're at it.
- Looking for textile? Take a look at your thrift store'southward curtain and bedding section: once that curtain'south a dress, nobody volition know information technology one time hung in front of a window. If it's expert enough for princess Giselle, it'south good enough for usa. Just make sure your curtains/bedding are made out of materials that are suitable for making clothes. Thrifted maxi skirts and maxi dresses are also a swell source of textile thanks to their length.
- A lot of cloth stores take a disbelieve corner with leftover $.25 of fabrics that are likewise small to sell at full price.
- Again, don't throw anything away. If y'all've turned a pair of jeans into shorts, go along the legs to patch other pants with. Your old pillow example might make for a great skirt. That leftover yarn from your last project might be just plenty for a pair of socks. Be creative. Commencement a stash with bits and bobs that you can dig into whenever you demand to patch something upwardly or supervene upon a zipper or something. Encourage crafty friends to too get-go a stash then you can trade with them.
Determination:
Mending and making dress does not have to be expensive. If anything, it might relieve you money. While you tin't reduce the time needed for your arts and crafts project (considering let's face it: fourth dimension is a luxury), y'all can observe ways to at least make your tools and materials cheaper.
I absolutely live past the things mentioned in this post. Check out my latest yarn haul, for example:
[ID: 58 skeins of diverse types of yarn spread out on a wooden floor.]
If I had bought all of these skeins new from a store, I'd have paid hundreds of euros. There's some very fancy wool in there! What I did instead was look up people on Vinted who were selling their yarn collections, and buy their stuff at a fraction of the retail toll. Information technology'due south a win-win situation: the seller gets some of their money dorsum, I get cheap yarn, and a whole bunch of pre-existing materials that otherwise might have gone to landfill volition now be turned into clothes.
Welcome to Wasteless Crafts!
Introduction:
Fast manner is one of the earth's biggest polluters, and is oftentimes fabricated in unethical circumstances. Companies overproduce clothes and fix up the market in such a way that tons of clothes are thrown out every yr. This isn't great for the climate.
While we consumers can't change the industry overnight, we tin tackle our own wardrobe, instead. Every bit of material and haberdashery nosotros reuse is one less piece of trash that ends up in a landfill. Every fast fashion item we mend or alter to be wearable once more is one less item to buy.
This weblog is dedicated to giving you ideas to make your own wardrobe a little more sustainable, preferably in a budget-friendly manner. I'll exist posting tutorials, ideas, resources, and projects that may inspire you.
Your deportment may seem similar nothing merely a drop in a bucket, but fifty-fifty the biggest bucket will spill over if nosotros all contribute!
Practiced luck!
Blog index:
These links lead to lists of all of this weblog'southward posts, sorted past theme.
- Sewing, mending, and crafts
- Projects and patterns
- My personal projects
- Replies to asks (part i)
- Replies to asks (role 2)
- Replies to asks (part 3)
- Fast style and climate modify
@wastelesscrafts thanks for letting me tag you!
My partner has a much loved hoodie and the elastic effectually the wrists has worn out. I'm a novice at mending but I'd actually like to make the attempt, if you lot think it'due south at all possible. Any communication is appreciated.
[ID: three pictures showing close-upwardly's of a blueish worn-out hoodie sleeve gage. The fabric is pilling, and the side seam and upper fold are torn.]
Mending ribbed cuffs
Don't worry, that'south definitely possible!
I've got some posts that you may find helpful for your mending project:
- Mending ribbed cuffs
- Sleeve cuffs and wrist rests
- Repairing stretchy fabrics
Yous can become a few different routes: prepare information technology up with visible mending, mend it as invisibly every bit possible, or supercede the unabridged gage.
If you make up one's mind to mend it, start off with closing up that side seam. Use a backstitch to repair the original seam if you lot've got plenty undamaged fabric left, or utilize a ladder sew if you don't. A coating stitch will assistance with the ripped fold at the cuff's border. Employ a thread of a matching colour to hide your mends, and finish off your raw edges to ensure information technology won't rip once more. A hand-sewn coating sew or a machine-sewn zigzag stitch will practise.
Check my guide on manus-sewing stitches to see how to go started.
Once everything's closed up, y'all've got a blank canvas for whatsoever decorative alterations you'd like to make.
(Paradigm source) [ID: a gray sleeve with a ribbed cuff covered in embroidered red roses with greenish vines and leaves.]
If you don't have plenty undamaged cloth left to just sew everything close, you lot could likewise sew on patches of spare cloth.
(Epitome source) [ID: a gray cuff with a black circular patch sewn onto it with blue thread.]
Or you could remove the damaged cuff and supersede information technology with a new i. Some craft stores sell replacement cuffs. Yous could also upcycle a cuff from a dissimilar hoodie, or employ a piece of ribbed fabric from another garment (e.k. an old sock).
(Image source) [ID: a vi step guide on how to replace the cuff of a sweatshirt.]
Good luck!
@wastelesscrafts cheers for letting me tag y'all!
My partner has a much loved hoodie and the elastic around the wrists has worn out. I'1000 a novice at mending but I'd really like to make the effort, if yous think it's at all possible. Any advice is appreciated.
[ID: three pictures showing close-up's of a blue worn-out hoodie sleeve cuff. The fabric is pilling, and the side seam and upper fold are torn.]
Mending ribbed cuffs
Don't worry, that'south definitely possible!
I've got some posts that you may find helpful for your mending projection:
- Mending ribbed cuffs
- Sleeve cuffs and wrist rests
- Repairing stretchy fabrics
You tin can go a few different routes: fix information technology up with visible mending, mend it as invisibly as possible, or replace the entire cuff.
If y'all decide to mend it, start off with closing up that side seam. Use a backstitch to repair the original seam if you've got enough undamaged textile left, or use a ladder stitch if you don't. A blanket stitch will assistance with the ripped fold at the cuff'due south border. Use a thread of a matching colour to hide your mends, and finish off your raw edges to ensure it won't rip again. A manus-sewn blanket sew together or a auto-sewn zigzag run up will do.
Bank check my guide on hand-sewing stitches to see how to get started.
Once everything's airtight up, you've got a blank canvas for any decorative alterations you'd like to make.
(Image source) [ID: a gray sleeve with a ribbed cuff covered in embroidered red roses with green vines and leaves.]
If you don't take enough undamaged fabric left to simply sew together everything shut, you lot could also stitch on patches of spare fabric.
(Image source) [ID: a greyness cuff with a black round patch sewn onto it with bluish thread.]
Or yous could remove the damaged cuff and replace it with a new one. Some craft stores sell replacement cuffs. You could likewise upcycle a cuff from a different hoodie, or use a piece of ribbed cloth from another garment (eastward.g. an old sock).
(Image source) [ID: a six step guide on how to replace the gage of a sweatshirt.]
Good luck!
Reblogging considering one of my favorite hoodies has been falling apart for years and I've put off fixing it for too long
Done!
It took less than v minutes why accept I waited then long to fix it
[ID: iv pictures showing close-ups of a black sleeve cuff fastened to a black sleeve with a white geometric pattern. Holes in the cuffs have been mended with a black material patch and white thread. Fingers are poking out off the cuff.]
Looks great! Those mends make for a neat match to your hoodie'south pattern. Let's promise you'll go many more years of use out of it. :)
hibiscus-mist asked:
Hello! Your postal service on Visible Mending but crossed my Nuance and I'm very interested in it! I can but really do basic paw sewing (Haven't tried to become fancy) and I ended up buying a pair of pants with manufactured holes in the knees. I don't similar them but the pants are comfortable (And were decently expensive) Which might be the best way to mend abroad these holes with one of those tecniques?
I'thousand happy to hear my post on visible mending has inspired you!
Mending human knee holes in pants:
At that place are multiple methods you could use to fix holes in the knees of pants, depending on the blazon of hole.
Simple rips:
If information technology's a unproblematic rip (no missing fabric or damaged edges), you could use a ladder stitch to shut the rip. Y'all'll still see a line where the rip sat, but at least information technology'll exist airtight. If the look bothers you, you tin ever add together some embroidery to hide the seam. Y'all don't need amazing embroidery skills to practice this: at that place's a lot y'all can do with a bones straight sew together or running stitch.
If you have a sewing machine and some fusible interfacing handy, y'all could as well try this invisible denim repair method past Goheen Designs.
(Prototype source) [ID: a diagram showing how to do the ladder stitch. A threaded needle connects eight parallel points on 2 carve up pieces of cloth. Text reads "Ladder Stitch. Squishicutedesigns.com.]
Holes:
If we're talking actual holes, as in missing or damaged cloth, a ladder stitch won't suffice. You'll need to add extra fabric to replace that'south been lost.
Take a expect at this tutorial by Wren Bird Arts on how to patch up a pigsty from the inside of your garment. She explains how to practice this both by hand and by car.
The only stitch you demand to know to follow this tutorial by manus is the running run up, although I would also recommend a coating stitch or whipstitch to finish off your raw edges. Past reinforcing these edges, you'll prevent the material from unravelling. This will make your mend terminal longer.
If you decide to use this method, you lot'll need to find fabric that matches your pants if you don't desire to draw attention to your fix. You lot could besides get the opposite route and use a contrasting material or even a bit of lace to make your mend a design chemical element rather than only a fix.
(Image source) [ID: close-up of the crotch of a pair of blue jeans. Each side has a hole that'due south been mended: one by mitt and 1 by sewing auto, as indicated by text and arrows.]
Sashiko, a blazon of traditional Japanese embroidery, is another method you could try. Check out this sashiko tutorial by Soluna Commonage, or accept a look at the links on sashiko in my visible mending mail.
(Epitome source) [ID: close-upwards of a hole in a pair of blue jeans that'south been mended with sashiko: a geometric design of crosses sewn with white thread holds a patch of fabric in place.]
If you desire to get really creative with patching, you could also brand custom patches in any shape or fabric you want. Sew them on with a backstitch and finish off the edges with a whipstitch or blanket sew together.
(Epitome source) [ID: close-up of a dark-green cloth patch shaped like the Pokémon Oddish sewn onto a blue pants leg with the use of a backstitch and a blanket sew together.]
Y'all likewise could try darning, which ways weaving extra fabric over the hole. Tumblr-user Delicatefury does a great chore at explaining how to do this. You lot'll need an embroidery hoop and embroidery floss (or something similar) for this. Darning tin be tricky, so if you've never done it before, practice on fabric scraps first to go the hang of it before you start working on your pants.
(Prototype source) [ID: six photograph's show the progress of a hole in a red piece of knitted fabric being darned with light-green thread. A needle offset sews new warp threads across the hole with yarn, and then weaves new weft threads over and nether these warp threads.]
Conclusion:
There are plenty of ways to set up holes at the knees of a pair of pants. Have fun with it!
If you're scared of putting that first stitch into your pants, remember that you probably won't actually vesture them anyway until you've stock-still the thing that bothers you about them. Then even if you mess up, you won't take lost much. Plus, most mends can exist undone or covered up if you don't like the last result, so you tin can always outset over. :)
If yous're looking for inspiration, check out Pinterest or take a look at the post-obit fixes:
(Prototype source) [ID: a patch of colourful darning on a piece of black denim material.]
(Prototype source) [ID: close-up of a hole in a pair of gray jeans that has been patched up and embroidered to await like a nighttime sky with a dark cloud, white stars, and a crescent moon.]
(Image source) [ID: monster patches: holes in the knees of a pair of jeans have been patched upwardly to look like monsters. The hole forms the mouth of the monster, with white felt teeth poking out. Two embroidered white crosses grade the eyes of the monster.]
(Prototype source) [ID: a close-up of a hole in a pair of light blue jeans that has been patched up with a blueish floral fabric. Blue flowers have been embroidered effectually the patch.]
(Epitome source) [ID: a pair of jeans that has been mended and embroidered at the knees with geometrical patterns in gilded thread.]
celestriakle asked:
Upsizing clothes! There are a 1000000 upcycling tutorials for dress that are too big, only so few on how to make besides small wearing apparel yous still love bigger!
Cheers for your suggestion! We all go through weight fluctuations in life, so it stands to reason our wearing apparel should be able to fluctuate with u.s..
Resizing your clothes used to be a very common practise before the advent of fast fashion. Fast fashion sizing is extremely flawed, especially when it comes to plus size fashion, and nosotros're stuck with a lot of vanity sizing, so it's a good skill to accept regardless of whether you're looking to mend something old or buy something new.
How to upsize clothes:
Introduction:
There are many different ways to make a garment larger. The following list is not exhaustive, but a few ideas to become you started.
Grading patterns:
If you're making your own wearing apparel, it'due south always useful to know how to modify a sewing pattern. The easiest way to suit a pre-existing pattern to your size is slash and spread grading. Offset, you demand to define which spots on the design need extra space. Y'all then cutting your pattern in that spot, and slide the resulting pattern pieces away from each other until you lot've got the size yous demand. Use paper to fill in the gaps. To ensure the resulting pattern makes for well-plumbing fixtures clothes, brand a mock-upwards and add, move, or remove darts where necessary to adapt it to your torso type.
The epitome below shows potential slashing lines on a set of standard blueprint blocks. Each line is a spot that allows y'all to add extra infinite. To read more nearly this process, bank check out the respective commodity by Threads Magazine.
(Image source) [ID: a diagram of slashing lines on a pattern cake for a dress, bodice, skirt, sleeve, and a pair of pants.]
To make your clothes easier to let out in the hereafter, make sure to provide ample seam allowance when cutting out your pattern pieces. This surplus fabric has several unlike uses, including giving you some wiggle room for when you demand to size upwards your garment.
Now, let'due south take a look at pre-made garments.
Lengthening apparel:
A garment that'south too short on you is like shooting fish in a barrel to modify. Just add more than textile!
If it's a skirt or a dress, add ruffles to the bottom. Ruffles are easy to make by hand or with a sewing motorcar. You could also add lace, or wearable the item with an underskirt.
For pants, let down your hem or sew on a new cuff. If this isn't enough, mayhap consider turning your trousers into capri pants or shorts.
As for shirts, sewing an actress layer to the bottom edge is the easiest way to get, too. You lot could fifty-fifty combine two shirts into one to get an extra long shirt.
Another pick is to cutting your particular in two and insert extra material betwixt your separated garment parts.
(Image source) [ID: a pair of blue pants with cuffs sewn onto the lesser of the legs to lengthen them. The cuffs are fabricated out of a fabric with a bluish and brown geometric print.]
(Image source) [ID: a before and after picture of a red t-shirt that was lenghtened by adding in a patch of colourful fabric at the waist.]
Letting out seams/darts:
Call up how we fabricated sure to accept aplenty seam allowance before? When a garment has surplus fabric in the seams and yous only need a fiddling extra space, you lot can disengage the seams of your garment and sew them back together again, this time with a smaller seam allowance than before. The Spruce Crafts has a pretty good tutorial on how to let out seams . You won't exist able to make major size changes using this technique, simply if you only demand a few centimetres, this is a practiced manner to go.
A lot of garments likewise accept darts. Darts are material folds that are sewn down in strategic places to assistance the fabric follow the body's curves. If a dart doesn't fit you lot the fashion you want information technology to, then unpick the dart and endeavour on the garment. Either leave the dart open up, or pivot the dart in place however you want it, then take off the garment once more and stitch the sprint back together.
Be careful not to rip the fabric when using a seam ripper. Also note that removing entire darts may modify the garment'south fit.
You can too add together custom darts to achieve a better fit, but that's a topic for some other time.
(Epitome source) [ID: twelve different types of darts on a feminine bodice block.]
Adding extra fabric to your garment:
If we need to add more room than seam assart or darts tin provide us with, we need to add extra fabric. Call back those slashing lines we looked at earlier? If you're working with a pre-existing garment rather than a design, those are the perfect places to chop up your dress and add together in actress cloth.
Check your sewing stash for cloth that's similar in weight and cloth to your original garment, or become thrift shopping for an particular yous could use to upsize your garment. Long skirts and maxi dresses are a dandy source of fabric for alterations like these!
Lace inserts are also a fun choice to add some room, and if you're working with a knit item, you could fifty-fifty knit or crochet your own custom insert.
Define the area where you desire to add extra material on your particular, and measure out how much yous demand. Draw a directly line on your garment with chalk/soap. Make sure the line doesn't cross any of import structural or functional parts of your garment like darts or button holes: refer to the slashing diagram nosotros saw before if y'all're not certain what spot to pick. Cut the line open (or unpick the seam if it's situated on a seam), and add together in your extra cloth. Stop off your new seams so they don't unravel afterwards on, and y'all're done!
You can add together straight strips of cloth for actress width or length, or you could utilize flared panels or even godets to make your item flair out.
Want to encounter this technique in action? Check out this video by Break n Remake:
Some ideas:
This Pinterest user cutting a straight line down the front of a t-shirt and inserted a lace panel to add together extra width in the forepart of the garment.
(Image source) [ID: a blue t-shirt with a console of nighttime bluish lace added in at the centre front.]
Busy Geemaw cut open the side seams of a shirt and used flared panels to add some extra width in the bust and hip area.
(Image source) [ID: a green and white long-sleeved shirt with a striped flared panel in matching colours inserted at the side seam.]
This person added a console to the sides of a pair of jeans to give them more than infinite in the hip expanse. You could hands employ a long straight panel or a panel that flares at the bottom to resize the entire garment instead of just the hips, or use a wide piece of elastic for extra stretch.
(Image source) [ID: a side view of a pair of light blue jeans with a nighttime bluish wedge-shaped denim insert running downwards from the waist and catastrophe above the knee.]
This person added a godet in the back of their shirt in lodge to get more space in the back.
(Epitome source) [ID: a blue and white plaid shirt with a white lace godet inserted in the back.]
Blue Corduroy enlarged a pair of shorts by opening up the side seams and adding in strips of fabric.
(Prototype source) [ID: blue denim shorts with a floral fabric insert at the side seams.]
You don't need to resize the entire garment if you don't desire to. For instance, One Brownish Mom turned this ankle-length skirt with a too small waistband into a well-fitting knee-length brim by taking advantage of the skirt's flared shape.
(Image source) [ID: a adult female wearing a black shirt and a brown tartan human knee-length skirt.]
Conclusion:
Throughout our lives, our weight will fluctuate and our bodies will modify. There'due south no shame in this: it'southward simply a fact of life. Therefore, knowing how to upsize an item that is likewise small for yous is a useful skill to learn.
If yous want more inspiration, bank check out these projects by Confessions of a Refashionista, One Chocolate-brown Mom, and Thriftanista in the Urban center.
ra-scheln asked:
Hey, so I've been once again noticing that my jeans are thinning where my thighs rub against one another - what could I do to reinforce the fabric? I've used iron-in patches before, but maybe you take a better idea. I don't accept a sewing motorcar, but I'm okay at handsewing and a good knitter.
Reinforcing thinning jeans textile
I've got 2 posts that might be useful to you:
- Reinforcing thinning jeans
- Mending jeans (compilation)
Atomic number 26-on patches or fusible interfacing are a good idea! They might detach after a few washes, just you tin avoid this past sewing across them with a running sew or backstitch. Utilise a thread that'southward a shut colour friction match to your jeans to brand your stitches blend in.
You could too sew fabric patches across the thinning fabric.
A sewing machine will speed up the task, only you don't necessarily need one to mend denim. Note that jeans tends to be pretty thick, so using a thick precipitous needle and a thimble will make your task much easier when mending by hand.
Information technology would exist actually cool to knit patches for your denim! I hateful, you probably wouldn't desire them at your thighs, but they'd look cool in other spots. :)
irondork asked:
i have a blanket that has been tragically mauled a chip by a cat and it's a swell coating so i don't want to throw it out merely i'thousand not sure how to fix it. i was recall of putting patches on but i'd dearest a 2d opinion thank yous!!
[ID: two photos of a blanket with a paisley impress in blue, beige, purple, and black. The fabric has been ripped in several spots.]
Mending a ripped blanket
Too bad almost the fabric, information technology's a lovely print!
If you still have enough textile left at the edges of the rips to encompass up the empty spaces, you could effort mending your blanket with a ladder stitch. Equally far as I tin tell, the chances of that are pretty pocket-sized though.
(Note that if you try this while having too petty fabric left to work with, the fabric volition pucker and sit weird.)
Patches will assist cover up the rips and help strengthen the frayed cloth beneath. You lot could endeavour to make custom patches, utilize sashiko, or stitch some lace beyond the rips.
If you lot can't fix it, at that place's no need to throw information technology out. Y'all tin can always reuse the undamaged parts of the fabric for a futurity sewing project.
(Image source) [ID: sashiko mending done on a floral greenish duvet embrace. Orange textile was used to embrace up holes. Running stitches in blue thread encounter the orange patches.]
shuuuuuu asked:
Hii, so, I have this haversack that started ripping at the straps (not the strap seam, the actual strap started ripping apart) and information technology'due south a very thick textile with kind of a padding within (photo for reference)
is in that location anything I tin do to stop it from ripping more than, or anyway to fix it? Or any tips for only mending backpacks in general? Thank you
[ID: shut-upwards of a rip at the pinnacle of a strap of a black haversack.]
Mending backpack straps
It looks similar your textile is unravelling, which ways it will likely continue ripping unless y'all fix it.
Straps accept a lot of tension: they motility when we wear them, and they concord the weight of the backpack and its contents. Your mend volition have to exist strong enough to be able to deal with that weight.
As the cloth'southward already pretty damaged, y'all'll accept to add new textile over the worn-out threads. Apply a real sturdy fabric to patch this spot! If you can find a fabric that's similar to the one your backpack'south made out of, utilize that. If you can't, denim'due south a decent choice as well. Use plenty of stitches and strong thread.
Yous could just patch the strap and so attach it to the backpack's body, only this might be too weak. Having a patch that covers both the worn-out fabric and the spot where the strap attaches to the backpack volition be a stronger prepare.
Try to spread out the tension the patch will undergo when worn by not but sewing up the edges just as well adding running stitches throughout the entire patch.
You'll need a thick precipitous needle to get through all of the fabric layers. If yous find yourself struggling with this, pliers might help. A thimble will also aid to protect your fingers while you work.
If you'd like to see examples of fixes like these, check out r/Visiblemending. I as well take 2 posts nigh backpack repair that might exist helpful: repairing a backpack and repairing a Kånken backpack.
(Prototype source) [ID: shut-up on a mended strap of a blackness backpack. A patch of blackness material has been added where the strap is sewn to the backpack's torso. Scarlet running stitches reinforce the mended area.]
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