Learn how to sew a zipper into a jacket, boots, how to make beautiful artistic patches, and how to sew jeans. Then you can do your own clothes repair. Sometimes troubles happen with clothes. It can be torn inadvertently, and trousers can fray. In order not to throw away your favorite jeans or other clothes, there are various ways to help remove such a defect.
How to fix clothes - trouser repair
They can tear in different places, but most often the area of the inner thighs suffers. Due to friction, gaps may appear here that need to be patched up in time. There are different ways of artistic darning, check out the modern one. It will require a thermal patch.
In this case, it was necessary to repair kimono trousers. Here's what you need to take to work:
- thermal patch;
- iron;
- sewing machine;
- scissors;
- threads matching the color;
- pants.
First, you have to fix the edges of the gap and fasten the remaining threads as much as possible.
To do this, you need to take a sheet of thermal patch, cut off the excess and separate the adhesive layer from the thermoplastic. Turn the trousers inside out, straighten them well at the break and cover with a thermal seal. It should cover the gap, the edges and some of the surrounding space. Now you need to iron it here with a hot iron so that the thermal glue adheres well to the fabric.
Now you need to bring beauty and hide the gap under the lines. To do this, you need to insert threads into the machine that match the color of the thing that needs to be repaired and the clothes further repaired. Using a regular straight stitch, sew back and forth, stitching close together.
If the entire area that you are sewing is not covered, then you can, going forward, change the trajectory to the opposite and sew, directing the presser foot to the original side. When you have covered the entire repaired area, it remains to iron this area already on the front side to achieve the maximum good effect.
If you want to learn about other ways to repair clothes, then learn about artistic darning.
How to fix clothes - sewing jeans
If your favorite pants are torn, you need to mend them. To do this, buy threads in the store that are as similar in color as possible. Alternatively, you can get an adhesive cloth that comes in dark or light colors. Cut a piece out of it that would cover the gap. Then you need to heat the iron, put the patch on the wrong side of the pants on the deformed area.
Place the patch with the adhesive side down. It is easy to identify, because it is rough.
If the jeans are torn between the legs, then you need to cut out a patch for each hole and glue it with a hot iron from the wrong side of the trousers.
Set the stitch adjuster on the sewing machine 2, 8 to 3 mm and start darning at a slow speed first. In this case, you must select a zigzag stitch. Sew forward, then back. You do not need to achieve perfect evenness of the line, then it will look more natural.
If there are ends of white threads on the right side, carefully thread them down with a needle and darning, guide the stitch directly at them.
Here's how to sew on your jeans. If there are too many threads sticking out, they are difficult to hide, then you can cut them off. But don't cut everything clean, or it will be harder to mend the jeans.
Sew in the direction of the pattern, threading the next stitches parallel to the previous ones. When you're done, trim off the excess glue pad and turn the jeans right out. See how wonderful the result will be.
Now place damp gauze or a thin cotton cloth moistened with water over the jeans and steam the stitching area.
If you do not have a sewing machine or the hole is small, then you can hide it using only a needle and thread of a suitable color. If there are many threads left at the break site, running parallel to each other, then you just need to darn with a needle and your thread, directing the tool perpendicularly.
In this case, it is necessary to pick up the subsequent threads in the staggered direction with the tip of the needle, relative to the previous ones. If the gap looks more deplorable, then first make a base for the lathing by manually placing parallel stitches.
Now you will need to unfold your work 90 degrees and make the next stitches perpendicular to the previous ones. They need to be laid in a checkerboard pattern. That is, if in the previous row the needle went under the thread, then in the next row it must be passed under this thread.
You need to create a fairly dense lattice so that it mimics the threads that make up denim. This is how wonderful the result will be.
If the jeans are torn between the legs strongly, then you can sew patches on them. To do this, they are cut out according to the size of the scuffs, but with a margin. Now these patches need to be attached with an invisible seam on the hands or on a typewriter.
Here's another way to fix your clothes.
How to sew patches on clothes?
They will help out if the holes are large enough. In a child, they usually appear on the knees, from falling or rubbing.
If you have jeans, this is what you need. Cut squares out of them so that these patches cover the gap. Now, using a needle to help yourself, remove the excess thread from the edges to create a fringe like this.
Place these artistic patches over the gaps and pin them here.
Since the legs of children's trousers are narrow, it is unlikely that it will work to sew a patch on a sewing machine. Therefore, you will need to sew on your hands. Take a thread to match and do it.
Here's how to sew a hole in your knees. It turned out wonderful jeans, which now have such decorations. If you want to see how you can sew trousers for a child in other ways, then take a look at the following photo.
For patches, you can use a variety of fabrics and even leather. Ask your child what he would like to see as decoration on his trousers. Maybe he likes funny cartoon characters. Then you can turn the gap into the mouth of this hero by sewing a piece of red fabric on the wrong side.
- You need to sew the white threads sticking out of the jeans so that they turn into the teeth of this hero. It remains to make the eyes, and the work is completed.
- A girl can sew jeans on her knees so that a flower appears here. You will significantly reduce your labor if you sew this flower from jeans with large basting stitches, taking threads of a contrasting color.
- Hide the gap behind the rectangles of leather, and some of the holes can be left the same, but by sewing on the leather from the back.
- If you know how to embroider, you can use this art to create another character to sit on jeans. Wonderful patches are also made with silk.
Thus, you can sew jeans not only for a child, but also for a girl. She will flaunt here in these updated trousers.
And if the jeans are small or the holes in the knees are already very large, then you can cut out these rectangles and sew them here. Interesting decorative elements will turn out.
Leather patches look great too. A small master class will help you make them. First, mark the place on your knees where they will be. Now make a template, attach it to the skin and cut out the one with the stocks. Now the patch needs to be tucked up and sewn onto your knees.
These patches look modern and stylish.
You can sew a funny smiley face as a patch by cutting it out of thick yellow fabric.
And to make a lace patch, attach it to the back of the hole and secure along the edges with pins. Now you need to wrap the edges of the denim inside and sew two types of fabric on your hands.
If you buy textile pictures that have an adhesive base, then you can attach any of them to the gap.
Place the patch over the area that is torn and iron it here with a hot iron.
You can first glue this place from the inside with an adhesive cloth to seal the edges of the gap.
You can sew a silk patch both from the inside and from the outside, simply by placing it on the hole. Now you need to attach it with a seam, sewing the edges to the jeans.
How to fix leather clothes with your own hands?
Sometimes there are troubles in the form of a hole that appears. Since people often use their pockets, a hole can form here.
To fix this type of clothing, you first need to match the threads. They must be durable. Take a needle with a sharp end so that it goes well through the layers of the canvas. Join the two edges of the hole, making a continuous seam here.
Now you need a small piece of leather. Sometimes they are included with the product. But if this is not the case, then take a similar piece of leather or cut it off from the inside of the product, where it will not be noticeable. Cut the patch slightly wider than the hole itself. Now take a beautiful decorative thread and attach the resulting patch here with a cross stitch.
Such artistic darning looks great, it seems that this element of decoration was specially invented, and not just a hole sewn up.
Sometimes scratches appear on the leather jacket, and it no longer looks like new. To eliminate this, use liquid skin. This is a special product sold in tubes.
A French remedy called Creme RENOVATRICE skin restorer is best suited for restoring leather products. This manufacturer produces a large selection of colors, but if you do not find the right one, then you will need to buy two tubes and, by mixing, achieve the desired shade.
To restore a leather jacket, you will need:
- plastic wedge;
- liquid skin;
- gloves;
- sandpaper;
- hairdryer;
- paper.
A plastic wedge or rectangle is needed in order to apply liquid skin to the damaged surface. You can do it yourself.
Squeeze a little liquid leather from a tube onto a sheet of paper, take it with a plastic blank and apply it to the damaged area. Apply in two to three coats. At this stage, the surface will already have a more dignified appearance than before the start of work. But we need to achieve even greater results. To do this, take the liquid skin from the tube with a spatula, apply it to the damaged surface, grind it a little and heat it well with a hot hairdryer.
While this place is warm, press down here with your fingers and hold for a few seconds.
Now take the next portion of the liquid skin and again apply on this area and again warm up with a hairdryer. Press down again and harder. Do this again. Take fine sandpaper and run it over the refurbished surface to sand it.
Reapply liquid skin, reheat with a hairdryer and press firmly with gloved fingers. This is how you can restore your leather jacket. See how this place was before starting work and what happened as a result.
Fixing things can also consist of painting on them with acrylic paints. This decoration allows you to hide the damage.
Master class - draw on jeans
This is how they will turn out.
Take:
- jeans that need to be repaired;
- a needle;
- threads;
- denim flap;
- pencil;
- iron;
- acrylic paint for textiles;
- blue outline;
- sewing machine.
If the place of the hole is wrinkled, then it is better to cut off the excess threads. Cut the denim patch to fit the hole. Baste it here, and then sew on a typewriter.
The seam must be of high quality so that it does not come apart. To test it for strength, put on jeans, walk in them, squatting intensely. If the seam has not parted, then you can proceed to the next stage. If it starts to rip apart, then make a few more lines on it.
Select the pattern that you would like to see on this part of the pants. In this case, it is a butterfly.
Her wings will be golden in color, so take an acrylic paint of that color. Using a brush, apply this product to the marked surface, let it dry, then cover with the next coat. Draw the outlines of the insect with a blue outline and outline the patterns on the lower wings.
Now you need to leave the jeans for a day so that the paint is completely dry. Now put paper on the drawing and iron it with an iron. After another two days, you can wash them in a mild detergent, rinse and dry.
Another type of minor repair of clothing is the shortening of trousers. After all, they are often long. In order not to pay money in the workshop, do it yourself.
How to fix clothes - shorten your pants
Below are two ways to help you do this. First, put the jeans on yourself or on the person you will be hemming them for. If this is a girl's thing, let her wear high heels if she wears them. Indeed, in this case, you need to cut jeans less, since in such shoes they should be longer than, for example, if they are worn under sneakers or ballet flats without heels.
Mark the place of the fold with small ones. Lay the jeans out on the table, wrap them on the seamy side along the marked line and draw two straight lines. The first will be at a distance of one and a half cm from the edge, the second - at the same from this one.
Now you will need to cut the jeans along the bottom line with sharp scissors.
To shorten the pants further, tuck them so that the top lines are on the fold. Secure with pins.
Slide the jeans back two times to the wrong side, just according to your markings. Take the same thread as the finishing stitching and sew here on the sewing machine.
If you do not have such threads, then you can hem the jeans using a manual invisible stitch. If you still want it to be finishing, then you can not cut this bottom seam, but hem the jeans in a different way.
First, also mark the place of the fold with small ones. Now turn the pants so that the fold is at this fold, and pull it close to the finishing seam.
Iron this area with the iron on the steam function. If you do not have the same finishing threads, then pick them up to match the jeans themselves and sew.
Here's how to hem your pants using method 1 or 2. Minor clothing repairs include replacement of a zipper. Find out how to do it yourself right now.
How do I replace the zipper on my clothes?
Sometimes one or two pieces of lightning are missing. Here's how to fix it.
If you have a similar zipper, then carefully peel off a clove or two and replace them in their new location. Here you need to fix them by pressing with round-nose pliers. But this method works only on large zippers with large metal teeth. If you just have one piece bent, straighten it also using round-nose pliers.
Sometimes the zipper slider loosens, it stops zipping. In this case, you need to carefully press with pliers on it first from one side and then from the other side. Press carefully so as not to break the slider.
If the zipper works, but the center piece is difficult to move, then wipe the zipper with a piece of dry soap. If this fastening device does not work anyway, when you carefully rip off the old zipper, sew a new one on your hands, as home machines are not designed for such manipulations with shoes.
But this is not difficult to do, you need to take threads of a suitable tone and use a thick needle to sew along the lines already made. Sometimes the slider breaks down and changing it helps. But in this case, you need to have exactly the same size zipper as the one that broke.
If repair of this element is not possible, then you will have to sew in a new zipper. See how to do this using the jacket as an example.
Take the STEAMER. You can buy it at a dry goods store and strike a zipper.
Now you need to remove all the threads left over from the previous line. When you remove the zipper, you will see that there is such a bar under it on one side.
Now you will need to sew in a new zipper so that the bar is in the same place. First, mark all this with a thread and a needle on your hands. The seam should be fairly close to the zipper, but not extend to it.
You can make it in the same place as the previous seam. The upper part of the zipper needs to be bent slightly diagonally and fixed in this position.
Also pin this piece to the top of the jacket. Now you have to sew on the part of the zipper that is with the bar. First you need to stitch it on the bar, and then sew it to the desired part of the jacket.
Sew over the basting on the typewriter, then remove the basting stitch.
Here's how to fix clothes yourself. The videos presented will give you even more knowledge. The first clearly shows how to sew a zipper into a jacket.
The second will help you even better understand how to darn jeans.
