How to sew a leather jacket with your own hands?

It often happens that a favorite thing becomes too large in size and does not fit your physique. Sometimes we get clothes from relatives or in a hurry we buy at a sale, but then it turns out that it shrugs or is not suitable in length. Do not throw away quality products because of this to the landfill. You can solve the problem yourself. Today we will tell you how to sew a leather jacket with your own hands at home, without resorting to the services of expensive workshops.

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How to sew a jacket on your own?

Your favorite thing is not quite suitable for you in size, torn on the sleeve or side seam? Let's find out how to sew a jacket on a synthetic winterizer with your own hands, if the lining interferes. Someone can simply sew up the edges on the front side, which looks not very beautiful, while others leave the thing hanging in the closet. In fact, solving this problem is easy.

You will need to perform a few simple manipulations:

1. First of all, determine by what seams, and how specifically you want to sew the jacket.
2. Then turn the product inside out, turn one of the sleeves out, spread the lining along the seam on the sleeve to a distance of 20 cm.
3. Turn out the whole jacket through the hole obtained, if there are any fasteners on it, then support them carefully using ribbons under the armhole.
4. Sew the product along the side seam to the required distance. If necessary, reduce it in reliefs or in the center of the back.
5. If the seam was opened while wearing, then turn the jacket back through this hole, fold the lining on the sleeve, trying to even out the folds of the slices.
6. Stitch the product exactly along the edges with the help of a typewriter, make sure that the stitch captures both layers of fabric.
7. Turn it on the front side.

This procedure will not take you more than 15 minutes, but your jacket will be several sizes smaller.

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How to shorten the jacket yourself?

Through that very small hole you can shorten the sleeve of the jacket with the cuff. If you are interested in how to reduce the size of the jacket at home by reducing the sleeves, then carefully study the scheme below.

Perform work according to this instruction:

• First, determine how long you want to reduce the length, then spread the bottom, turn the jacket inside out.

Important! The sequence of actions may be different, but it is better to turn it off first, and then to tear it apart.

• Take out the cuff, measure the required length of the sleeve, measure the desired distance from the cut so that there is a margin for the seam.
• Draw a line, cut off the excess.
• Shorten the lining to the same length.
• Insert the cuff on the wrong side into the sleeve to its right side. Align the sections, sew with a regular seam, cut the threads.
• Connect the sleeve to the lining, aligning the sections and aligning the seams. It is important that the front of the lining is inside the seam of the previously sewn cuff between the sleeve and the lining.

Important! The main thing is not to twist the lining during the connection process, otherwise - you will not be able to put on a jacket later.

• Sew on the typewriter, twist the product, sew the hole, turn the cuff on the front side.

Your favorite jacket again looks like new, only her sleeves have become much shorter.

Important! The same actions can be done with the bottom of the clothes or replace the collar.

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How to reduce the jacket in the shoulders?

It also happens that any thing is too big in your shoulders, they are ugly clumping or drooping, making the silhouette sloppy, flabby, simply ugly. If you have the simplest sewing skills, have a huge desire to save money, then you can independently figure out how to sew a jacket in your shoulders with your own hands.

Do the following:

1. Take measurements. Measure the distance from the base of the neck to the point where the shoulder line intersects the armhole. Measure the depth of the armhole from the top in the armpit area to the intersection of the neck and shoulder lines on the back side.
2. Remove the shoulder pads.
3. Open the lining. Spread the side seam 15 cm in the area of ​​the sleeve.
4. Determine the new size of your armhole. This is done simply: put the shoulder pads on the shoulder, given that its dense part should be a centimeter from it. Raise the obtained okat, fix on both sides on the shoulder seam.
5. Inside the lining on the fabric, apply marks, mark a new shoulder line, tuck lines, sleeve size on the sides.
6. Open the sleeves, sew along the outlined lines of the side, cut off the excess, sew back.
7. Sew the shoulder pads by hand, while making sure that they are located at the protrusion of the seam of the okat, and a little further than the seam was a dense part.
8. Handle tucks. Sew them, steam the seams.
9. Try on a jacket, if all is well, then with the help of a machine, sew up the sleeves.

Such manipulations will not cause you much difficulty if you have basic skills.

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How do I sew clothes at my waist with my own hands?

• The first thing to do is take measurements.
• Then measure the girth of the chest with the help of a tailor's tape - it should go through the points that protrude most.

Important! During measurements, make sure that on the back it passes slightly above the level of the shoulder blades.

• The next step will be to measure the narrowest part of the waist, while it is necessary to grab it as tightly as possible, but not to pull it too tight.
• Next, put the product inside out and put all the marks, using pins to mark the new side lines.
• Then it turns out, tries on again, all seams are sewn together according to marks.

Important! If the thing sits perfectly in the waist, but hangs in the chest area, then you will have to work a little with tucks, if any, or make them yourself. 1-2 cm from the existing tucks should be stepped back and stitched again, the triangular tucks should be moved. Material for this is selected at the required distance from the former seam, and then fixed. A new tuck is stitched along the old line at a distance of 1 cm.

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With such simple actions, you can give the old jacket a new shape and continue to wear it with great pleasure.