Hello again! I’m excited to share about my first time making jeans! Sewing jeans has been something I wanted to make time for “someday.” I’ve recently realized that a lot of my commercial jeans have a low rise waist. I find now that I prefer a mid rise waist (so I was excited to jump into making my own jeans).

I picked the Morgan jeans pattern because the jean style I wear the most is a loose, “boyfriend” jean. I thought the looser fit would be easier to start with.

I used the following sewing machines for this project.

Supplies;
1.8m Denim fabric (check size chart for length needed)
0.45m Cotton lawn fabric
0.45m Woven interfacing
Denim sewing machine needle
Navy serger and sewing machine threads
Mustard all purpose sewing thread
Seam ripper
Tweezers
Iron
Glass head sewing pins
Tracing paper
Five rivets
7” Zipper
One, 25mm Jeans button
French curve ruler
Hammer
Anvil (or cast iron skillet)
Awl
Fray check

Wire cutter (to remove metal teeth in the top a jeans zipper)

Tailor’s ham

Resources: Closet Core Patterns (previously known as Closet Case Patterns) is very well known in the Maker community. I knew they have been popular but I didn’t know why (but now I know).

There are so many free resources included for help with sewing jeans!! There is also a class you can purchase for more help. Being honest, I LOVED all of the resources that Heather Lou offers for free on the Closet Core website with this pattern. I’d like to purchase the class and make the Ginger jeans (skinny) in the near future. Some of the tutorials that I found the most helpful are:

Installing Hardware Tips

https://www.closetcorepatterns.com/install-jeans-hardware-home-video/

I don’t have an anvil but I do have a jewelers block. I used this block for installing the hardware and it worked just fine. I love in the tutorial above that Heather Lou mentions you can use a cast iron skillet as well (if that’s what you have on hand).

Selecting size

https://www.closetcorepatterns.com/choose-size-making-jeans/

Helpful Resources for Morgan jeans page

Scroll down to the “Helpful Resources” section and click the down arrow (to find lots of tutorials, tips and styling inspiration)

https://store.closetcorepatterns.com/collections/sewing-patterns-all/products/morgan-boyfriend-jeans-pattern

Continued in my next post...

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