Amelia’s Ruffled Pants, Jeans Refashion Sewing Tutorial

Take your old jeans and cut 8 ½ inches from the hemline as shown. I am using a 6-year-old’s jeans. You might have to cut less if you are working with smaller size jeans. It is best to cut it 2- 3 inches below the knee level.

Measure the cut hemline on one side.

Cut two pieces of fabric for the ruffle at the bottom. The width of the fabric should be 9 ½ inches. If you had cut off less than 8 ½ inches from your jeans, then add 1 inch to the length you cut off to get your ruffle length. The length of the fabric piece should be 4 times the width of the cut hemline on one side plus one inch for the seam. For example, if your cut hemline  measured 5 inches. The total length should be (5 X 4) plus 1 inch = 21 inches. You can add more width if you like it very ruffly.

Take one of the fabric pieces. Fold in one of the long raw edges by ¼ inch, fold again by another ¼ inch and sew.

Now align the shorter sides and sew with a ½ inch seam

You get a tube as shown above

Make a basting stitch ( the longest stitch on your machine after making the upper tension zero) along raw edge. You will start and end near the side seam without backstitching.

Pull the thread and cut it leaving a long tail.

Pull the thread gently to gather the raw edge. Gather it till it measures the same as the cut hemline of your jeans

Insert the cut end of the jeans into the right side of the ruffles as shown by the arrow.

Adjust the gathers once again and pin in place aligning the side seam of jeans with the side seam of the ruffles.

Sew the ruffles to the jeans just inside the stitch made for gathering and follow with a zig-zag stitch on the seam to prevent fraying.

Turn it right side out and you have your first ruffled leg ready. Repeat with the other side.

Take 2 long strips of fabric 2 inches wide and 44 or 45 inches long.

Cut the ends slanting as shown by 1 ½ inches

Fold the longer edges in by ¼ inches and press

Keep the right sides together taking care not to open the fold you just made

Sew the 3 sides as shown by the red line leaving the folded side open with a 3/8 inch seam.

Turn it inside out

Cut out the part jutting out. You might have to trim it a little inside the belt too.

Iron the belt to make it flat.

Top stitch all around the belt closing the opening on the folded side. Your belt is now ready.

Tie it after passing through the loops.

Enjoy your new  Amelia’s Ruffled Pants!