How to make kids jeans…skinny bright blue jeans in particular!

I apologize for the picture overload, but I can’t help it. He is DANG cute, dirty, but cute. He is so funny too, he would pop his dad’s sunflower seeds in his mouth and spit them out whole off the back of the truck. I couldn’t resist posting about it. He is actually wearing his elastic mickey mouse watch I fixed and the thrifted shoes that we made like new (which aren’t so clean anymore).

Anyway, making these kids jeans took me only a few hours and I know for next time I can do it even faster and make some improvements too….thats how easy it was. Now because there is a long list of instructions, I had to hide most of them in the next page, I don’t want to miss any of the details. Next time….I’m going to aim for adult jeans. Hm? Maybe it will work.

Supplies:

Jean material – amour depends on the size – I used a half a yard and it barely worked

Current jeans that fit  – {this is where you get the pattern from}

Velcro (or zipper or buttons)

Thread

Scissors

Sewing machine

fabric marker or chalk

pins

Instructions:

1. Line up and mark a pair of jeans onto jean material. Make sure the grain is matched up between all the cutting, and make sure is the jean material has any stretch that is is running from right to left. Also, one of the front pieces needs to incorporated 3 inches in the front middle for the velcro/zipper/button part for one side and an extra inch on the other front middle for the other side of the velcro/zipper/button part. I wanted them to be skinny and longer, so I cut them into a more skinny leg shape. I also marked the pockets as well by just tracing over top of the pants.

2. Cut! You will have 4 leg pieces, and 2 pocket pieces. The back two pieces should have a bit more length to it, for diaper/bum/comfort reasons. I made sure to cut these pieces out of paper first, so if I like dhow it turned out I could make more.CLICK READ MORE FOR INSTRUCTIONS