Jean-ius: Reverse Engineer Your Favorite Fit
Recreate your favorite jeans without taking them apart. Couturier Kenneth D. King teaches this amazing class, full of couture sewing techniques.
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Recreate your favorite jeans without taking them apart. Couturier Kenneth D. King teaches this amazing class, full of couture sewing techniques.
Introduction
Meet Kenneth D. King, who will show you how to use your favorite jeans to create new trousers that fit like a dream, without destroying the original garment.
Preparing the Model Fit
Start with your favorite jeans and outline all the seams and features in thread basting.
Creating the Draft
Using silk organza, you’ll trace the thread markings on your jeans to copy them.
Testing the Draft
Make a muslin based on your draft and check the fit to see how it matches.
Correcting the Draft
Make alterations to your pattern based on the muslin fitting.
Draft to Pattern
Now the organza draft becomes a paper pattern.
Back Pockets & Yoke
Sew the back pockets and top yoke onto the two back leg pieces.
Front Pockets
Kenneth guides you through the front pocket assembly as it is attached to the front leg pieces.
Fly Front & Zipper
Navigate through this tricky construction to make the classic fly front and shorten the zipper to the perfect length.
Final Assembly
Sew the inseam and the long seams to turn pieces into pants. Finish it off with a beautiful topstitch.
Finishing Details
Attend to the finishing details on your perfect pair of jeans. Install the waistband, finish the ends, add the belt loops, hem and more.
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