How to make a vest from a denim jacket?

The real trend of this season are jeans, especially vests. They are appropriate to wear not only with trousers, but also with different styles of dresses or skirts. Unfortunately, such clothes are rather expensive, and not everyone can buy it for themselves. Therefore, hand-made help will come to us. We will tell you how to make a vest from your jeans jacket with your own hands. It's very simple, cheap, and most importantly - original.

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Turning an old jeans into a fashionable waistcoat

In order to realize your plan and give your old jeans jacket a new life, you just need to whip off its sleeves and process several seams. As for ornaments, everything depends solely on your imagination and taste preferences.

For work you may need:

• Scissors;
• Threads in color;

Important! With the help of a sewing machine, you can make several decorative seams with colored threads.

• Chalk, a piece of soap or a tailor's marker;
• Set of sewing pins;
• Sewing ripper;
• Needle;
• Sewing machine;
• Various decorative ornaments.

Getting started

In order to make a vest from a jeans jacket with your own hands, you need to follow the following order:

1. Apply contours of the future armhole to the product.
2. Trim the sleeves with the addition of 1 centimeter for further processing of the joints.

Then we process the seams. This can be done in the following ways:

• You can sweep with an overlock.
• Another option is to stretch a few threads around the edge to get the effect of careless fringe. In this case, it is very important to consider the presence of such a decoration in advance, since it is necessary to leave an additional pair of centimeters during the separation.

Important! The fringe can be whitened. Thus, the future product will look more original.

• Strip with braid. It should be sewn to the cut of the armhole with a 5 mm seam.
• Stitch with a sewing machine. When choosing this method of seam treatment, it should be taken into account that the seam should be even. In order to maximize this result, the product must be previously swept away.
• To decorate with a cloth. In this case, it is best to choose cotton materials.

Important! It will be very stylish if you look at the original fabric on your back from the fabric that you worked on the edges.

This concludes the main stage of the work. You can wear a waistcoat as a finished product, or you can give it a more stylish and unconventional design.

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Choose the future decor

You can decorate the resulting vest by using a wide variety of handy materials - colored buttons, beads of various shapes, rhinestones, fringe and ribbons.

To date, the most popular elements of decor are the following:

Metal rivets

They create the effect of punk or rock stylistics. If you decide to use this kind of decoration, the first thing you need to do is to think in advance of the future pattern or drawing, by which you will place rivets. Thanks to this decision, you can even lay out the ornament and calculate the most accurate number of decorative elements.

Important! Using a chalk or a tailor's marker, the pattern should be transferred to the fabric.

When embarking on the process of decorating with riveting, it is important to remember that they are attached using a special machine. If you do not have one, you can use a rivet gun, which is sold in every garment store.

Important! You can cheat and acquire an imitation of rivets that have a self-adhesive backing.

Lace

The combination of jeans and lace is a hit this season. Therefore, the choice of this material is very large, and you can buy both synthetic lace ribbons, and natural.

Important! To decorate the waistcoat, it is best to purchase a textured lace.

You can use it absolutely differently, starting from the edging of the armholes and pockets, ending with the appliqué on the back.

Stones and crystals

They can be purchased in a store for needlework and sewing, and a large assortment only promotes the creation of a stylish product. For this you need to think over the future drawing and calculate the necessary number of decorative elements.

Important! Very stylish look patterns made of colored and different rhinestones.

Bows and ribbons

This version of the decor is suitable, if a very young girl decided to make a vest from a jeans jacket. For older seniors, the bows made from the same jeans as the waistcoat will look very nice.

Applications

This is a very fashionable trend, so for today in garment shops the choice of different stripes is just off scale.

Important! If you have at least a little sewing skills and know how to fantasize, you can create an application with the help of a moulinet yourself.

We use the flag for the decor of the vest

Individuals who want to stand out and not be like everyone else, most often use the flag to create decor. Agree, how stylishly looks the waistcoat from a denim jacket, which is decorated on the back with various asterisks and stripes.

Important! The most popular options are the use of the British and American flag.

Doing holes and scuffs

Such a decor of jeans is not a season does not leave the pedestal of popularity. In order to create a beautiful decor with holes, you need a sewing machine:

• First, select and mark the places of future holes.
• Next, you need to make several cuts in a row using a ripper.
• Using a round tip on the same ripper, pull the cross threads.

Important! In order for the future hole to turn out beautiful and without puffs, the thread must be pulled one by one.

• During operation, the longitudinal threads must be carefully removed.
• Once the hole is the right size, finish the process and remove the extra threads.

Important! To create abrasions, use sandpaper or a conventional kitchen grater.

Change the color of the product

If you are not satisfied with the color of the vest, you can repaint it in another color, or create a fashionable gradient color. To do this you will need paints for the fabric and bleach.

Important! Very stylish looks "star" ornament. To do this, you need to lower the toothbrush into the whiteness and spray on the surface of the product with the help of bristles. Leave for several hours, after which you can wash in the standard way.

Decorate with leather and suede

This is a very stylish combination. You can use these materials as for edging, so make them a collar, pockets or stripes.

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Useful advices

If you decide to make a vest from a jeans jacket, we suggest you use several tips that will help during this process:

1. It is very important that the color palette of the threads that you use coincides with the product.
2. In order for the stripping process to go faster, use a blade or a manicure scissors.
3. If you sew a rubber band to the inside of the backrest, then the product will sit better on the figure.
4. If the waistcoat without a collar, then you can decorate it with various decorative chains.

In order to remake a jeans jacket in a vest yourself, you do not need much physical effort and financial expenses. And in return you get a stylish and original thing that will not go unnoticed.