How to Sew Jeans From Scratch | Copying My Levi's Ribcage Jeans!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 มิ.ย. 2024
- Hello! Today I'm showing you how I traced my Levi's Ribcage Jeans to make a sewing pattern (with a few extra tweaks to perfect the fit)! I'll be walking you through my favorite techniques for jeans construction in this video. Supplies and tools are listed below, and please leave a comment if you have any questions. Thanks for watching! :)
CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
02:00 - Analyzing Levi’s Ribcage Jeans Fit
03:26 - Trace Jeans Pattern
06:30 - Walk and Check Pattern Pieces
07:33 - Grainline Adjustments
08:41 - Draft a Zipper Fly
09:06 - Copy Front Pocket Location
09:20 - Add Seam Allowance
09:56 - Draft Front Pocket Components
11:49 - Draft Pocket Stays
12:47 - Cut Fabric
13:10 - Quick Pattern Adjustments
14:41 - Sew Front Pockets/Pocket Stays
16:55 - Assemble the Front Legs
17:57 - Sew the Zipper Fly
22:25 - Assemble the Pants
23:46 - Attach and Finish the Waistband
27:05 - Install Jeans Hardware
28:20 - THE REVEAL!
Supplies used in this video:
- Cone Mills S-Gene Denim, 10 oz. from LA Finch Fabrics: bit.ly/3BvHZ3j
- Guterman Mara 70 Thread in color 868: bit.ly/3iQqjb0
- YKK #5 Jeans Zipper, 7" long Navy: bit.ly/3v0SyZv
- Jeans Tack Button in antique copper: bit.ly/3oUCuYi
- Jeans Rivets in antique brass: bit.ly/3mGqwPs
- Rivet Setting Tool Set: amzn.to/3lt4fF7
- Mallot for hammering hardware: bit.ly/3v0Tq0d
Shop Pattern Scout Patterns: patternscoutstudio.com
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES + FUN STUFF:
- Casey's Skillshare Classes: skl.sh/2JZlIzh
- Pattern Scout on Pinterest: bit.ly/3kqjT0j
- Sewalongs and tutorials: bit.ly/34Wtt5P
- Shop Pattern Scout PDF sewing patterns: bit.ly/shoppatternscout
-You can also shop some Pattern Scout patterns on Etsy: bit.ly/PatternScout
Follow @patternscout on Instagram: / patternscout
MY EQUIPMENT:
Pfaff IDT Select Sewing Machine: bit.ly/35fqoh3
Babylock Imagine Serger: bit.ly/2ILM1Ol
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I have declared you "The Nation's Sewing Professor" because you have a super organized mind and delivery system. No extra words and very concise instructions. Obviously you have a passion in what you do. This comment is late as I just found you and wanted to check you out as to your teaching method. I'm impressed. I am 76 and have been sewing for at least 60 years. So you know I'm not a beginner but am enthralled anyway. What old dog can't learn new tricks?
Wow, thank you so much! That means a lot to me. Thanks for watching and commenting :)
This is a fantastic tutorial, thank you! Your jeans are an improvement on the rtw Levi's. I am going to watch that fly chapter, over and over again because I swear there must be magic involved!
Thank you! Making a fly is pretty satisfying! :)
Spent this whole video looking at the pants I'm wearing, noticing all of the pieces I never look at it think about, unzipping the fly, zipping up the fly, feeling my pockets, feeling the yoke.... there's so many parts of jeans that I've never paid attention to... 🤯
I really liked how you walked us through the fit and why. That was helpful!
Seriously… I can’t believe this! (I mean I CAN because you’re so talented). But wow! Amazing! Thanks for such a great breakdown of all your steps. Just awesome😃👍.
Thanks so much!! It's SUCH a rewarding project, love making jeans and figuring out all the details (even when I'm cursing the zipper...every time 😅).
Omg...you're my hero!
🥰 well, thanks!
Unbelievable! I can really see the improvement in the new patterned jeans.
I like longer tutorials with detailed information. It helps when something is new to me.
Great video for showing how to take a pattern from a pair of ready-made Jeans. I have made a lot of patterns from existing pants. One thing I found is that it the fabric, even if very similar, can give different fit and flatter results. I think you took a lot of fitting issues you didn't like in the original pair into account and addressed them. This is so important. You can always take fabric from the pants, but it is impossible to make them bigger once cut out.
I have created a block pattern for the waist, hip and crotch depth and length. I now use this block when creating a pattern. I have tried to use my jeans to create patterns from, but in the end, when I get the pattern made, I generally can't make the front and back fit correctly. This is why I have my own block and I just use the style lines in the jeans to adjust and create the pattern changes. It does take a lot of practice to do the zipper. I make a mockup first before putting in the zipper, then I can adjust the pattern and make the zipper fit. No matter how many times I have done this zipper, I always struggle too.
This is great encouragement for women who may not believe they can make their own jeans and pants. They are expensive to buy, and good fit is hard to find. I also make a muslin from a less expensive fabric to test my pattern fit without the pockets or the zipper. Thanks for sharing. This was an excellent video.
Thanks so much for watching! :)
Amazing work
Excellent video, explanation, and tips.
Thank you for this clear tutorial ❤❤
Such a well produced and narrated video!
I love seeing a jeans dupe project! I'm pausing just after the fly construction portion to comment that if you find this part to be challenging it might be worth trying a different order of operation than this one. I've tried a variety of methods and my favorite order stitches the shield on earlier and then catches the bottom in the lower front crotch topstitching.
ETA: I would love to know how you adjusted the back side seam to account for your last minute adjustment to the front side seam / front grainline.
Love your jeans!! ❤ 😊
the jeans is legit amazing 👑
I love your finishes. The garments look couture!
Unbelievable!!! You’re extremely talented.
Super great video. Your version looks much better ❤
Very talented!
Thank you for a fantastic video that combines copying an RTW garment AND shows how it comes together. Inspiring! And your jeans are an improvement over the Levis! Good fit!
Now that’s what I call skills! Will I ever have the determination to try that? I wish!
Another brilliant video
Waow I am impressed !!!!!! Looks nice
Many thanks! 🙂
awesome job! awesome fit ❤
You are amazing! Great craftsmanship!👖⭐️
Thank you!
Yours looks sooo much better, great job!!❤️❤️❤️
Thank you!!
Your jeans look amazing!
Thanks sooo much for sharing your knowledge, you made it look easy!❤️❤️❤️
Thank you for watching! :)
I love the content and pace of your video, I’ve just found your channel and subscribed, thankyou!
Thank you so much, so glad you enjoyed it! :)
I know I came to this video really late but I was looking for a jeans sewing tutorial and yours came up. I've just started making my first ever pair and was in need of some help on techniques. Thank you so much - I'm feeling more confident now - though I'm taking it very slow.
Looooved this!! Such a great video for anyone wanting to see jeans! You made something that seems impossible as achievable! Thanks for all the tips and letting us watch your process! New subscriber here who can’t wait to catch up on all your content!
So glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!!
excellent work 👏 👍
Thanks!
Great fit.
You did soo good!!
Wow! Yup the came out great!
Thanks!
Such a great video! I think I'll use this as a reference when I put together my next pair of jeans :) thank you!
Thank you! :)
I totally enjoyed this tutorial on making jeans. I love how it turned out. Thanks so much for the detailed order in which you did this.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
So glad you enjoyed it! Thanks so much for watching and letting me know! :)
This is amazing! Thank you for sharing ❤️
You bet! Thanks for watching! :)
This video is sooo good! Thank you so much for showing us how to correct the fit. I am so glad I found you. You're taking my sewing to the next level!
Aw thank you so much for the kind words! So glad it is helpful ❤🥰
Thank you very much ! Very Nice work !👍 Now Is the time I make mine…
this is so amazing!!! great, great work!! the fit is so good on you ♥️ love the side seam!
Thank you!!
An absolutely wonderful video and tutorial. Made the fly installation process seem less intimidating. Thank you,Melinda
I'm so glad! Thanks for watching!
Great video. Thanks!
Thank you!
I just come across your channel, I really like how you show us in great detail how you made your jeans identical to the shop bought ones !! I have subscribed to your channel and look forward to watching more if your content . ✂️🧵💕😊
So glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for the subscribe! :)
I am VERY impressed!
Thanks!
OMG they are FABULOUS they look much better than the bought one very wel done 💜
Thank you so much!
Nice. Very detailed tutorial. Hope to see more projects from you. Thanks. New subscriber here from Philippines🇵🇭❤️❤️
Thank you so much! :)
They fit you better than the Levi's . 😊 just found your vlogs love them . ❤
Fantastic, Casey!
Thank you! ❤
Wow,great fitting jeans.
Thank you! 😊
Awesome job 👍🏼 loved the break down of all the parts!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the breakdown...I can definitely get into the details! 😀
@@PatternScout if it's good info, I don't care how long the video is!!
Very, very helpful. Thank you 🇬🇧
So glad! Thanks for watching!
Very nice! Thanks for sharing.
These turned out awesome!! I'm hoping to try and make a pair of my own following your steps, fingers crossed they turn out well!
Thanks! Good luck with yours, hope they turn out great! :)
First time on your site and loved your workmanship and thoughts put into your work. I have cut off a pattern from one of my jeans and made a white Jean. Yes zipper area a nightmare but love wearing mine. It fits my body and feels so comfortable wearing it. Thank you. Looking forward to seeing other things you have done.
Thank you!
Great work. I always had issues with top stitching too, until I started using my foot with 1/8" on one side and 1/4" on the other. It was a game changer for me. Love your patterns!
Oooh ok I definitely need to get on that presser foot tip, thanks for sharing that! I should know by now that there is a tool for pretty much everything in sewing! Thanks for watching! :)
nicely done
Thanks for this!
Great video
Thanks!
Wow 🤩. I’m amazed. You’re fantastic. You really like a challenge. I would like to try but I don’t have the experience for such a difficult project. Maybe one day. I loved your tutorial ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Yours is better. Great fit. Well done.
Thank you!
I guess I am going to have to do this because Levi's stopped making mine. Plus the front pockets ought to just be sewed closed if they plan on making them so short. Mine want to stick out because they are so short. I love your video's!
You are good!!! Thanks!
Thanks!! :)
GREAT JOB! Thank you
Thank you!
Better than Levi. Nice ❤
Wow, these jeans look so professionally made. You are so skilled. Now I am so ready to sew my own pair of jeans that fits. Thanks so much for uploading this video.
Thank you! You can totally do it...jeans are my favorite thing to make!
@@PatternScout Thanks so much again for encouraging me.
I'm trying to learn to sew and your videos are super helpful! Btw you're a total babe
So good!
Thank you!
Wow def advanced skills I will need baby steps cause this definitely is not for beginners I was lost at the first draft lol beautiful though will have to slow play back 👖thank you for the time you put into this 😊
Thank so much for watching, Rosa! Jeans are a big project, but so rewarding!
amazing!
wow
love the new custom jeans
I would buy those instead of the store ones
Thanks! :)
Nice!
Thanks!
Fabulous
Thanks!
Great content! Now all I need to do is find a pair of jeans that fit me well. LOL. I have a pdf pattern and some stretch denim and hoping to make a wearable muslin to fit my shape. You given me a lot to consider and I will do my best to incorporate it in my first jeans attempt. Thanks so much Looking forward to buying PS pattern soon.
Thanks for watching! The nice thing is, once you get the fit the way you want, you can make them over and over! My very first pair were the Closet Core Ginger jeans and I used a budget denim and I still wear them 🙌 good luck!!
WOW this was an incredible tutorial! You covered so much but didn’t waste any time. Your jeans look great, I think they look better than the actual Levi’s. I definitely chucked when you even copied the decorate stitching from the back pockets haha! I want to make my own jeans so I’m so glad I found your tutorial
Thank you!! Haha, I am bit OBSESSED with details...had to get that pocket stitching in there 😂Glad it was helpful and thanks so much for watching!
@@PatternScout Okay so I finished my jeans and they actually turned out pretty well! It was my first time making jeans, and my first time making self-drafted pants in general. I had some bagginess and fit issues around the crotch, and I had to try to subtly add darts to the back because my yolk area was too big. But a lot of that is probably due to me using stretch jeans as a basis for the pattern, but using non-stretch denim to make my pair. Other than the crotch area and some looseness in the upper butt area, I'm actually super happy with the fit, especially the legs! And all the details came together wonderfully too. Just wanted to say thank you again for this easy to follow tutorial, and I subscribed and am gonna check out your other videos.
@@wearlucinda Oh that makes me so happy that you made them! Yay! It does take a little trial and error to nail the fit--I have several photos in my phone of really terrible fitting pants that I have made over the last year or so haha (maybe one day I'll share those 😂). Thanks so much for checking out the videos, appreciate that! :)
Look so good! You should have added a red tab name that would be unique to you and patch lol
Thanks for this. I just finished seam-ripping a pair of my old jeans to copy them but I knew I'd need some help figuring out reconstruction. Hopefully, I'll have a pair of nice jeans that will actually fit my waist and hips properly once I make some adjustments.
You're so welcome, thanks for watching! :)
Nice and neat
Thank you :)
I cannot believe you MADE this!!! You're so talented!!! Thank you for sharing :)
Thank you so much!
This is scary level expert skill!!! Can you make a video on how to be so good at dressmaking, please!? Beautiful process.
Haha thanks!! 😂 I might just be a little obsessed with this stuff!
Would ever consider releasing a jeans pattern?? You are also insanely talented, thank you for sharing!!
Also would have loved a side by side at the end comparison what you loved /NIP for the future.
Wow!
Great tutorial, your jeans are better than the Levis !
How would i make the pattern for large thick thighs and thin waist? I sew since 9 but we were never taught how to make a pattern in elementary school. I am 65 and would love to learn how. Your jeans are incredible!
Thank you so much for taking the time to show how to not only do a rubbing of a pair of jeans, but how to construct them. I think that you did an exceptional job of tracing off the existing pair of jeans, and making necessary changes for better fit. I think you did a really good job constructing the jeans. But. If I may make a suggestion for next time? Do more pressing. Not trying to be judgmental....AT ALL...I think your work is really good...but I kept thinking that the jeans (while in various states of construction) needed more pressing. At the 17:21 mark, the pocket stays weren't pressed well. It's really evident at the 23:01 mark. At the 26:08 mark, the waistband needed more pressing as well. The end result was really good, I think you're a wonderful sewist. I'd humbly invite you to take a look at this TH-cam video done by Paul Kruize. He spends as much time (if not more) at the ironing board as he does the sewing machine: https: //th-cam.com/video/SDePy3nQnS4/w-d-xo.html One other suggestion. When you go to do your topstitching, slow down a bit. It will help control the stitching, making for straighter seams. Best, Kay.
Damn girl, excellent
Thanks! :)
Your jeans look so much better on you than the "ready to wear".
Thanks!
Danke
Your fly technique is leaves so much unnecessary bulk at the belly area ,there are much efficient techniques out there 😊
I love making jeans. They seem so hard but they just have lots of steps. I made ginger jeans last year 2 pairs of shorts and a pair of capri length ones too
Yes! They are so satisfying to make!
For anyone who doesn't believe there is a such thing as raw, God given talent, wen it comes to sewing...(there's no diff than singing, or dàncing)I hope this will enlighten disbelievers, and prove without a doubt, sewing is absolutely a talent. Made greater yet, with practice. Your totally blessed with a God given ability, that may makes it seem to others that, u my dear very possibly, were born, with a bobbin, in ur pretty lil newborn hand.
Me personally have vocal ability, accompanied by the get down, and boogy gene. With a dab of an eye for color, lines, shadowing, and contrasts, etc. as an amateur artist. Which is all hindered, by this lifelong inability to do any of those things in front of anyone other than my 🐈⬛🐾cat. (😱😳stage fright to the max...YIKES) You have this wonderful talent, with a cherry on top, plus whip cream. Meaning...
TALENT+
SHARING UR TALENT WITH OTHERS+
TEACHING THAT AWESOME TALENT TO THOUSANDS OF VERY APPRECIATIVE PEOPLE.
Me included, becuz unfortunately try, try, and try as I might. I have ever only sewn badly, but u r teaching me to make wat I sew, recognizable, and sew with🤞 functionality. (if not for anyone else, but meyself!) Lol! So thank u so much Mrs. Thread and buttons! That fills me with admiration so great it's overfilling and busting at the seams!
THANK U 4 THE GREAT 👍 TUTORIAL MA'AM, PLZ KEEP THEM COMÍNG!
Wow, thanks! :)
Can you do a video for the new comers that's are kind of still learning the different dimensions and labels of the pants? Like the dart , the yolk, etc?
Great accomplishment. want to b this good when I grow up lol
Haha thank you so much!
Most welcome. Would not say it if I didn't mean it
AMAZING! Your jeans were perfect, GREAT JOB!!! Hoping to learn to sew soon just for this reason, PERFECT JEANS :)
Do you have a link where your skills can be purchased?
Thank you so much! I sell sewing patterns on my website: patternscoutstudio.com. And I have courses on Skillshare for pattern drafting: skl.sh/37F2taV
Haven't seen someone do the flu like this yet might have to use it
YOU ARE A JEANS MAKING BOSS!!!! I am so glad I found your channel!
Casey, I sew on an old PFAFF 1222E. I will eventually upgrade being that it was my first and only sewing machine I have ever bought and cost me the same as I paid for my vw bug! 1976 was a very good year! What is the actual make of your PFAFF and do you like the machine? I did go through your link below but couldn't tell if that was the same model. Pls and thx!!
Haha thank you!!!!
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The pocket that you were calling a coin pocket is actually a pocket for a pocket watch when men back in the day would have used as wristwatches are a modern invention.
Love how you made the correction to how the leg hung on the Jeans so many times fashion designers do not take into account how everyone has a different shaped leg. Interesting use for the pocket this has always been an issue with jeans for me, this looks like a good fix for me.
Oh, good to know! :)