By EasyHow

How to lengthen pants

The child has increased dramatically and last year's pants become too short? Okay, new to buy yet do not have. Let's see what you can do with the old one, if they are in good condition, and all other sizes are quite suitable.

You will need

A strip of cloth, the quality and color is similar to the one stitched trousers
Blade
Sewing machine
Needle, thread

Instruction

Before you begin, wash and iron pants. To my old arrows do not have, but the fabric must not be wrinkled. Let's see how the pants hemmed. If they just bent and seamed at the bottom, your task is greatly simplified. Fight back on both legs bending and carefully select all threads.

Water and Ratatouille trousers to remove the crease line. If you don't succeed to make them invisible, try to smooth out so that the fabric in these places wincing as little as possible. The rest you can finish later.

Will have plenty of suitable fabric 2 wide strips of 3-4 cm Length of each strip is equal to the length of the bending leg, plus seam allowances. Better strips cut on the cross — as were cut pants. But in this case it is not particularly important.

Adding details right sides, align the long edge of the strip and the bottom of the Trouser. Baste and stitch detail. Fold the sewn strip on the wrong side of the pants. Zautyuzhte seam.

Fold the sewn strip as you would during normal processing of the bottom of the product. Baste the ACC, pristrochite it or sew manually hidden seam, depending on what fabric sewn pants. Thus it is possible to lengthen the trousers by 2-3 cm

Note

To unpick the ACC should be very careful not to penetrate the fabric.

Useful advice

To lengthen pants can be another way. If it is possible to get exactly the same fabric, can be cut out of her lapels the width that you need. If we are talking about the trousers of the suit, where the jacket or finish of a different color — you can make cuffs on pants of the same color as the jacket, or even to cut off the leg line and knees to make insertion of a different color. .

To lengthen jeans with a hem of another fabric, probably, will not work, because the fold line will be too noticeable. But you can make a hem, for example, a leather fringe. Will be appropriate and inserts a line knee.