How to Make Bell-Bottom Jeans
The 70s are back with this How to Make Bell-Bottom Jeans sewing tutorial. This retro pattern and tutorial will have you daydreaming of the past and all you have to do is grab a pair of jeans and a table runner those of which youre willing to cut up. If you want to stand out in your DIY jeans, your table runner or scrap fabric should be colorful or you could just find more denim to create the bell-bottom effect. Youll get so many compliments on this bohemian and vintage pattern!
Project TypeMake a Project
Time to CompleteIn an evening
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Texibbean
Sep 10, 2024
This is exactly what we did in the 70's. Great job! That other comment is full of beans. Just be sure the grain of the insert fabric is perfectly vertical (follows the dead center of the triangle) so it doesn't hang wonky.
Texibbean
Sep 10, 2024
This is exactly what we used to do in the 70's. That other commenter is full of beans. Great job recreating them! One thing to watch out for is to make sure the grain of the insert fabric is vertical, dead center in the leg triangle. That keeps the insert from hanging all wonky.
taraconnor777
Feb 28, 2024
Well, this person tried,but it looks more like wingsin the above example,you would take the side seam of pants all outyou need a slim line from waist to bottom of pants leg.the whole leg tapers down to the bell bottom.Plus,the whole back and front of the legs,must be widened waist to bottom hem.You want a pair of pants that gradually widens to a wide pants leg-hem--widen to a " bell bottom."So the whole path of pants smoothly,gradually,widens to very wide bottom trousers.Look at a real pair,decide how your measurements will do that.You cannot just stick in a piece of fabric,at the bottom of legs and call it"bell bottoms".Sorry,try again. )
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