Duplicate Your Favorite Pair Of Jeans - Part 1 of 3

This is part 1 in our series on how to create a pattern from your favorite pair of jeans without having to take it apart. In this part, we tackle prepping our pants, starting our breakdown of the front leg and creating our fly pattern pieces.
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[@SheerStitchery]

Love that you dont have to take the Jean's apart to make this pattern!

[@sigridkutz4468]

Great video, thank you. Before pinning the pants to the paper I would make sure that the grain line of the pants align with the dotted line of the paper. If that is off by 1/2 to 1" the new pants would not hang right. I did a lot of sewing, just not copying the pants, but I think that is a very important point.

[@justme-fe2sf]

wonderful tutorial as always. Only comment I would make is that I dont agree with not having to add seam allowances or have to worry about seam allowances on side and inner leg seams. As much as some of the seam allowance has remained at least a 3rd of it is shaved off in the process of overlocking so its something to consider if you wish to also overlock your jeans later so you dont end up with a tighter hip and leg area

[@gladtidings4all]

I love the idea of using a piece of cardboard. I don’t know why I didn’t think of that. I have been using my queen size bed to cut everything. I finally did buy the roll of white paper to use! But I will definitely be getting the cardboard to use as pinboard thanks. Learning from you as always. I already made the boxers for my husband and the sewing machine cover. I will be cloning my clothes next!!

[@laurasalsa]

This comes at the perfect time, I ripped my favourite pair last week. I have a hard time finding good ones, so I'm going to do this for sure! Thanks :)

[@ProfessorPincushion]

yay! glad you found our tutorial helpful

[@AlvinHanson1708]

This was useful, I'm making a costume for a claymation puppet and found things I can use on your tutorials. I just tool a picture of the seam line inside out and sync to my big screen the zoomed it to size and traced the pattern.

[@haruxsaru]

The cool thing about this is that you could make shorts based on a favourite pair of jeans. This is so cool!

[@ProfessorPincushion]

haruxsaru yup, you can definitely do that :)

[@fredaweigand3276]

Exellent video thanks so much. I wanted to try this method & just found this .

[@ProfessorPincushion]

Freda Weigand You can do it! :D

[@zizistavrakou3786]

Thiw is a great video and thank you very much for this. I have a question though. Why didn't you pin the pair of pants, inside the seam allowance, which is the accurate shape of the trousers and add the seam lines afterwards?

[@vincentgray870]

Not a thing I'd usually notice, but, great nails!

[@avagage1]

Thanks so much for your wonderful videos, you are a great teacher.

[@ProfessorPincushion]

thank you so much for the kind words

[@lb1477]

Great video! I'm learning to sew for my 2 little ones-they're both tall and skinny so finding jeans it TOUGH for them! I'm just going to make them :-) Oh gosh pray for me!!! Haven't picked up a needle and thread or used a sewing machine in 17 years :-o

[@ProfessorPincushion]

+Lauren Green you can do it! just take it one step at a time :)

[@Kiarasgonzalez]

How did it go!😊

[@kelleynoiseux1888]

Thank You for preventing me from serious depression.

[@stus_nov]

Все очень подробно и понятною Отличное видео! It's very detailed and clear. Great video!

[@kalyangorahava4858]

Very good video presented by Madam , Detailed explanation required hard work by madam. Sincere thanks for getting so nice explanations.

[@ProfessorPincushion]

Thanks for the kind words. I'm so glad you enjoyed our tutorial

[@chocodiledundee1]

Your hands are beautiful... thank you for the video lesson

[@lauraberridge9390]

brilliant! do you have a video of actually cutting + sewing up the jeans too?

[@ProfessorPincushion]

Yes we have an assembly video, but it is a premium video on our site located here. www.professorpincushion.com/professorpincushion/jeans-assembly/

[@lauraberridge9390]

@@ProfessorPincushion thank you

[@HisGem29]

Great video. Question: If I wanted to make the jeans a couple of sizes larger than the original pair, how would I go about adding the extra inches into the pattern? Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. :)

[@ProfessorPincushion]

Veronica Scurry what you want to do is call pattern grading. We don't have a tutorial on this yet but you can find a pretty good article on it here: www.threadsmagazine.com/item/37396/pattern-grading-basics

[@HisGem29]

Thank you for the link. I will check it out.

[@you8uglg]

Is it possible for you guys to do a blazer/ suit jacket tutorial ?

[@ProfessorPincushion]

It's definitely on my list :)

[@KellyDannemann]

This is really great. Thank you for taking the time to do the tutorial. I have a question .... How did you decipher the grain line, I looked through the questions and I did not see it, also went back and watched it again and did not see. Could you let me know which video it was in or how to decide on the correct grain line. That is where I have ran into problems in the past. Thank you again so much.

[@ProfessorPincushion]

Kelly Dannemann Think of the grainline is always going to be parallel to the selvages, so I try and make my pattern as straight as I can when I draw it on my pattern paper, using the pattern paper marks as my guideline. Then I draw a straight line, using these same pattern paper marks within the pant leg. hope this helps.

[@pyrokayte]

How do you know where to draw the grain line on your pattern piece?

[@MaybeCornbread]

I liked the content of the video, although I wish you'd published this video in HD resolutions. A lot of the detail work was too fuzzy to interpret in 240p resolution. Still, this is very good content and I look forward to your videos.

[@ProfessorPincushion]

We create and upload all of our content in HD. This video does look like the only size option is 240p. My guess is that it is an encoding error on youTube's part. Part 2 and 3 seem to be fine. I will work on getting a new version uploaded so it can be viewed in HD. Thanks for pointing this out, I don't know how I missed this.

[@ProfessorPincushion]

This video now has a 1080p option

[@nj7178]

I've been looking and waiting so long for a tutorial like this one. However, I wish you would've posted parts 1, 2 &3 at the same time so I don't have to wait 3 weeks to start making mine :/

[@ProfessorPincushion]

Sorry, the other two will be out soon.

[@saulgoodalvarez]

Incredible.

[@mohamedeltabba7004]

I admire you I want to learn to draw the batron and cut on paper and detail

[@ellishenryofficial6170]

Hey would you be interested in making custom jeans from a pair of old jeans that have?

[@jtiller98]

omg can u plz plz plz do some sort of Victorian tutorial? thankssss

[@010606will]

How do you determine where to put your notches?

[@ProfessorPincushion]

I usually like to put it on the curvier part of the seams. If it's a simple straight seam, I just put it in the middle. These notches are for matching two seams together so I think if you at least have one on your seam, you're doing well. :)

[@010606will]

Thank you for answering! I love your videos!!!!!!

[@bobbiegreiner1754]

I would like to know how to duplicate pants that have elastic in the back waist...can you explain that to me? Thanks for the video!!

[@ProfessorPincushion]

If it were me, I would trace the around the back of the pants up to the hips. Then trace the crotch curve up to the waistline. Instead of tracing the side seam from the hipline to the waistline, just draw a line straight up from the hipline. This will make it so that your waistline pattern is bigger than the finished waistline and allow you to add a gathered elastic waistline in the back.

[@bobbiegreiner1754]

Thank you!!

[@lisa-annpunter]

hi, do you use a hip curve if your doing men pattern as well?

[@ProfessorPincushion]

you can but use the more straight side. it just blends a little better then doing a straight line. It also depends on the style of the jeans. You just really want to avoid any points and have all the lines looking smooth

[@sugriv3405]

Is it that hard to measure one particular size of one person and draft it over a paper by steps by steps coz the method u r teaching is not for the business purpose it cant be possible like that.. on the other hand we cant even order the pattern online like urs BTW salute to your effort

[@flanmaryj]

This is really cool!! I have a pair of pants I'd love to duplicate!

[@yellowduck2728]

I have a pair of pants that I want to recreate but they have a back zip and flat front that's sort of triangular. Any tips? (I'm about half way through the vid atm)

[@ProfessorPincushion]

you can definitely do this. I think I tackle the zipper section in the second part of this tutorial. The main thing is to see where the seams are in your pants and breaking down the individual pieces of the pants. That's how you know what you need to make a pattern for and a back zipper may be less complicating the a front fly, like mine, as sometimes these are just incorporated into the center back seam. good luck!

[@allieg6401]

Thanks :) after thinking about it its just the yolk at the front abd zip at the back I could probably put an invisible zip if ut doesnt have one already - haven't seen the pants in ages lol.

[@msnco-ep7vc]

Great👍

[@feddyosias3149]

Is this the same concept as duplicating a jacket ?

[@ProfessorPincushion]

yes, all your trying to do is break down the individual parts

[@kelleynoiseux1888]

Psyched!!!

[@isaacshephard7072]

What kind of paper are you using and where can I buy it?

[@ProfessorPincushion]

it's alphanumeric pattern paper. I bought mine through amazon

[@ayyanaliamirr6108]

+Professor Pincushion I love sticking ..but I can't cutting because petron of cloth is very difficult to make...:-(

[@1goddarddr]

My jean inside seam is a flat felled seam. I should add seam allowance? How much?

[@ProfessorPincushion]

I actually just did a flat felled seam on a pair of jeans for a pattern and their seam allowance was still 5/8"

[@mrhemuli91]

Darling, there is soooo much easyer way to make a trousers pattern. Like the right way. Ask a pattern maker how to! its easy! it takes me 20 minutes to make full trousers pattern with pocket linings and all seam allowances! so does for most pattern makers

[@yevgenymashenberg2369]

Everything is cool,but you have to take in account that the same pattern will behave differently in different fabrics ,just saying 😊 so the pattern itself is not enough,you need to be aware of a fabric as well ;)

[@kelleynoiseux1888]

Been going through hell my entire life because my inseem is 36" and I was a size 10...now I am a size 22...thirty five years later and companies don't sell 36" for woman unless it's a big and tall woman's shop which someone out there should start up for woman in the WNBA.

[@kelleynoiseux1888]

This would be a great feat for someone. At least Britney Griner has start to design her own clothing thanks to her friend.

[@ProfessorPincushion]

You can do it! :D

[@simonecarvallhoartes2614]

👍

[@DonakondaCreation]

bagundi mem

[@wendysydney88]

❤❤👍

[@cascabelette]

tout est bien sauf les ongles peints ... tout le monde fait ça comme si ça allait apporter un plus sur youtube mais pas vraiment ... moi je trouve que des mains avec des ongles naturels c'est mieux

[@DingleDut]

Omg hurry up already!

[@atharvakale9484]

Atharva kale

[@christopherbinigay4603]

Too much talking

[@spaceman85]

Rich comin' from a binigay

[@URY24K]

very rudimentary...this isn t the way to learn... i can t agree to this method because it s just wrong...the pattern resulting from this will be imprecise by miles... so child play

[@HOODCLASSICTELEVISION]

ovidiu ury shut the fuck up, hater.

[@kamronsilver7109]

Lmfao you got told shut the fuck up because you are a hater

[@MrMkd1202]

You really need to condense your explanations of what you're doing. For example, you spend way too much time saying where you're tracing from and to. All you need to do it lay it out and trace it. We can see where you're tracing from and tracing to. You could shorten this video to 10 - 15 minutes by not explaining so much. We can all see what you're doing, just do it.

[@StefaniaSuta]

AMEN.

[@HOODCLASSICTELEVISION]

Doctor Doom shut up, we like the detailed explanation. You're a hater

[@jaimeweeb1749]

you mean, *you* like it, you dont have to get mad because someone is saying something, they are just helpinng so the vid isn't long