How to Sew Jean Pants With Zipper & Buttons

Home-made jean pants give you the flexibility to select your own materials and designs to create a look of your own. Choose a color of cotton twill you like from light stretchy material suitable for suit slacks to heavyweight denim fabric for rugged wear. Select a skinny, boot-cut or straight pant pattern and cut out your fabric pieces.

Instructions

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Denim cotton twill weave produces a rugged cloth.

Insert a denim sewing needle in your sewing machine and thread your machine. Lay your front pant pieces with right sides together and pin. Your pin tip should point toward the edge of your denim. Place you pant pieces on your stitch plate and lower the presser foot. Sew from the crotch toward the waist, stopping where your pattern designates for zipper allowance and back stitch. Use your scissors to cut your thread. Remove your pins.

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Metal zippers in jeans are strong and durable.

Machine baste your zipper opening closed. Press open your seam with an iron and lay your closed zipper face down on your seam allowance. The bottom stop of the zipper should lay where the stitching ends, and the coil should be next to the seam, not on it. Snap a zipper foot onto your machine. Sew the zipper in place. Turn your zipper face up and stitch the fold close to the coil in regular stitch length. Remove pins, basting and press.

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Double stitching is decorative and adds strength to your seams.

Pin your back pieces together and sew from the crotch to the waist. Press your seam to the side and top stitch along the outside edges of your seam. Place your pockets where your pattern marks and top stitch. Sew your jean pant legs along the inside seam.

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A hem finishes an edge on denim pants.

Turn your pants inside out and sew each leg along the outside seam allowance. Attach an interfacing to your waist band, turn right-side out, fold under the edges to form a hem and iron. Pin your waist band to your jeans; secure the ends of the zipper under the band and sew.

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Set your sewing machine to buttonhole stitch. Snap on a buttonhole foot. Raise the pressure foot and place the fabric on the plate and lower the foot. Stitch across one end of the button hole. Stitch along one side the width of your button. Stitch along the other end and back along the opposite side. Trim your thread and use your seam ripper to open the buttonhole.

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Jean pants are hemmed and accentuated with fashion foot wear.

Mark the length of your hem. Fold the unfinished edge under twice and press with a hot iron. Sew along both edges of your hem.

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Jeans fasten with buttons and buttons secure corners on your pockets.

Pinch the clasp of your instant button to unlock the post. Position your button in the middle of your waist band above the zipper teeth. Push the post through your fabric and re-attach the clasp.

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