photo of the pants described in the post, arranged to show the waistband, the inner thigh with the expansion strip, and the mended hole

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   Soph (they/them) (soph_sol@federatedfandom.net)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 07:49:09 JST Soph (they/them)

   red jeans remaking project complete! these jeans were too wide in the waist and too narrow in the thigh. I did the following:

   1. removed the waistband so I could get some matching fabric from the inner side, to expand the thighs

   2. unpicked the back seam and the inner leg seams

   3. added the inner waistband fabric into the seams inside the legs, from the top of the seam to my knees

   4. sewed up the back seam to take in fabric heading up to the waist

   5. sewed the original waistband back on, with a tuck at the back to make up for how the back of the pants were taken in

   6. sewed in some sturdy grey fabric scavenged from a dead pair of pants to cover the raw inside of the waistband

   7. mended a small hole in the inner thigh

   I maintained all the fabric in the seam at the back so that if I ever need to expand my waist again I have room to do that, instead of trimming the seams closely

   and they're done!

   #SophCrafts