Sewing Jeans: The complete step-by-step guide

Product Description

This comprehensive sewing book will take you through the entire process from picking the right fabric and notions to completing a pair of jeans that will rival high-end denim brands.

Take your skills to the next level with the help of clearly illustrated, step-by-step instructions and easy to follow techniques. All tutorials can be done using regular home sewing machines and tools that are easy to access.

Sewing Jeans: The complete step-by-step guide also includes chapters on pattern alterations, a comprehensive guide to the best seams and stitches plus an extensive section on denim fabric and their care and uses.

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

CONTENT OVERVIEW

Illustrated step-by-step instructions for the entire jeans assembly process
Instructions for pattern adaptations and alterations
Guides to the best denim stitches and seams
Denim fabric and their care and uses
Garment industry insider tips and techniques
Best tools and notions for sewing jeans

Detailed table of content

Pattern alterations and adaptations
Quick-guide to denim stitches and seam
Sewing flat-felled seams
How to master topstitching
Techniques for sewing bar tacks
Guide to denim fabrics 
How to pick the right fabric
Caring for denim
Denim and the environment
Step-by-step sewing tutorials
Sewing front pockets
Back pocket constructions 
Zip fly tutorials
Button fly instructions
Sewing yoke and crotch seams 
Side seams techniques
Waistband assembly
Sewing and attaching belt loops
Sewing buttonholes
Attaching buttons and rivets
Hemming jeans

And much more!

About the Author

Johanna Lundström is a sewing book author, pattern designer and blogger whose previous work includes the sewing book best seller
Master the Coverstitch Machine and
Sewing Activewear.

When she is not producing sewing books, she creates sewing videos for her YouTube-channel and makes sewing tutorials on her blog thelaststitch.com

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