How to make ripped jeans: step by step guide
Do It Yourself Educational Program / / December 19, 2019
Step 1. Prepare everything you need
- old jeans. Blue, black or blue - it does not matter. The main thing that they were good for you. Is perfect classic and boyfriends, but with a shaped like a skinny you need to be careful. If the leg is strongly fits the hip, there is a risk that the constricted skin will fall out through the slits.
- Mel, remnant, or pen. You will need to mark the future of the holes.
- Sharp scissors or a stationery knife. Large cuts easier to do with tailoring scissors and small - nail. So prepare both of them. It is also possible to make a hole office knife - someone as comfortable.
- Tweezers or needle darning needle. Tweezers need to draw unnecessary yarn from fabric and needle or needle - to make fringes on the edges.
- Pumice, sandpaper and bleach. They can be used to give the jeans a tacky appearance.
- Wooden cutting board or thick cardboard. They will be easier to cut and overwrite the hole, because you can not be afraid to damage the lower part of the leg.
Customizing requires creativity, patience and time. The first time alteration of jeans can take you a few hours, but the result is worth it.
Step 2. Make markup
Chaotic prodyryavlivanie may lead to the fact that the thing will be in the bin. For example, do not make the holes too close to the belt. Such slots are permissible only if the protruding pockets - part of a creative idea.
Before you take up the scissors, put on jeans and a draw, which will be located holes and scrapes.
To guess for sure get your photos ripped jeans style. Select the best, in your opinion, the location and proceed by analogy.
Step 3. Make a hole
To get the length of the cross hole in the knee, make one cut office knife, previously tucked under the cloth board.
If spaced holes voluminous, have not only cut, but also to pull the thread. Denim is like a grid: white horizontal strands interspersed with blue vertical. Your task - to get rid of the past and not to damage first.
Scissors, stationery knife make several horizontal incisions in each scribed area so that the distance of 1-2 cm between them.
Then the most laborious. Take the tweezers and pull it vertical blue thread. To work was easier, rub the desired area with a pumice stone.
Perhaps the process will be slow at first, but after a while the blue thread will become more pliable and as a result you will only white.
To wear out of the hole, slightly fan the edges with needles or just rub them with a pumice stone.
Step 4. Even more sostarte jeans and decorate them
Wash and dry the jeans as usual. If the model is not sufficiently shabby and you want more vintage style, treat the desired areas with a cotton pad soaked in liquid bleach.
Then tuck in the leg plank or a piece of cardboard and cloth rub sandpaper. The thinner the jeans, the smaller should be the grain of the paper.
You can also decorate the jeans. For example, in one of the holes can sew lace attach on the availability of application space or pasted edge openings crystals.
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