Designer Jeans

I spent most of the afternoon today working on my "designer jeans".  I'm following along with Angela Wolf's Craftsy class, Sewing Designer Jeans.  I'm using her pattern, but modified it quite a bit.  The rise was lower than I wanted so I made adjustments there.  Then I had to majorly shorten the jeans and I straightened the legs a bit.

I spent quite a bit of time prior to cutting out the denim fitting a muslin.  I adjusted and adjusted and sent pictures to Angela Wolf who gave me a couple tips; but said I did a great job and was very close on the fit! That made me feel good!  Anyway, so I made some more adjustments and finally cut out my fashion fabric of denim with 2% lycra.

It's pretty time consuming with all the top stitching but I'm taking my time because if this turns out nice, I may enter it in our county fair.

Here is the back of my jeans.  I haven't attached the buttons yet:

Thanks for reading,

Marla

Blog Name Change

I decided to change the name of my blog because I am going to end my little sewing business for financial reasons.  It's just not worth it financially to sew as a business at this point.  I am going to concentrate more on charity type sewing and continue my learning of more advanced sewing techniques.

Because of my decision, I have changed my blog name to "Sew Are the Days with Marla".  Ok, so  maybe that sounds dorky.  Maybe I will change it again, but going with that for now.

I wanted to test my blog and see if all my posts under Cooprider Sewing remained here.  It appears they did. So thankful for that!

Anyway, I hope you continue to read my posts.  Maybe I will post more often.

I'm finally starting on my jeans.  I'm working on the pockets right now!  I will try to post some pictures soon.

Thanks for reading and I hope the name change on this blog doesn't confuse you!

Marla

Designer Jeans

Since Christmas I've been working on making a muslin for my first pair of "designer jeans".  I have a lot of Craftsy classes including one called "Sewing Designer Jeans" by Angela Wolf.  I just finished the muslin after numerous attempts and consultation with Angela.

Now I am ready to make a pattern off my muslin and start the process of making my jeans.  I'm sure I will need to work on the fit some more since my fashion fabric is denim with 2% lycra.  But according to Angela Wolf, I should just need to take the seams in about 1/4".

In addition to working on this jeans project, I'm also working on writing up some basic sewing classes for a mentoring program at church.  I need to make up some samples of some of the sewing techniques yet, but I have my written instructions pretty much done! 

Once I get going on my jeans, I will try to post some pictures.

Thanks for reading,

Marla