Jeans are considered the most popular clothing, regardless of age, social status and style of their owner. Surely, each person has at least one pair of jeans in the closet that can be revived with embroidery. It happens that the model looks boring or due to long-term wear, there are worn areas or stains that cannot be removed. Then embroidery on jeans with your own hands will help, which will make the thing unique.
Selecting a pattern and its location
Even in the wide range of models presented, you may not find those jeans that you would really like. Decorative elements will help to give the item uniqueness, make it unusual and fashionable.
Embroidery can be used to decorate almost any place on jeans. Often, places with permanent stains or abrasions are chosen for decoration. Large decorations on the front of jeans look beautiful: near the pockets, on the knees, on the sides of the legs. Small embroideries will decorate pockets. Schemes on how to embroider any, even the most complex, design on jeans will help.
As for the pattern, choose one that suits your style. It could be:
- feather;
- flowers;
- butterflies;
- abstraction;
- geometric patterns;
- hearts;
- stars;
- fruits or berries;
- animals;
- cartoon characters.
Application methods
Before you start working, you need to think carefully about what kind of embroidery you want. For those who are already familiar with embroidery techniques, satin stitch or cross stitch will do. For beginners, a suitable option would be embroidery with rhinestones, decoration with beads, and sequins. You can find many videos that will tell you in detail how to embroider a design on jeans.
To make the drawing look harmonious, follow the main rules:
- Think carefully about the motif that should be on the trousers;
- Apply the stencil to the chosen location using chalk or pencil;
- choose the appropriate technique and embroider the chosen pattern;
- If the design was embroidered with satin stitch or cross stitch, it is better to iron it at medium temperature at the end.
Satin stitch
Anyone can master DIY embroidery on jeans using satin stitch. To begin with, choose just a few colors and a simpler design, such as a feather. All that remains is to find embroidery patterns on jeans.
How to embroider a feather to decorate your jeans:
- the sketch is applied to the place where the embroidery will be;
- You need to embroider from the center of the feather to the edges, using straight stitches;
- First, the design is embroidered with one color of thread in two folds, then with another, filling the empty space;
- The feather is embroidered with a thread of a different color, in three folds.
Once you have managed to embroider a simple pattern with satin stitch, you can gradually move on to more complex ones. Satin stitch embroidery in the form of flowers on jeans looks beautiful.
With beads
Beads and seed beads will help to give an interesting design to jeans. Beads can be either sewn or glued on using a hot iron. A pattern made of sewn beads is considered more reliable.
Often, pockets are decorated with beads, sewn on in a chaotic manner. You can lay out a pattern or letters from beads, even a whole inscription. Bead embroidery on jeans can turn simple trousers into a glamorous thing, in which you can appear in a restaurant or go on a date.
With rhinestones
For denim, rhinestones that are attached to the fabric using hot fixation are suitable. Prepare tweezers, an iron and an ironing board. How the rhinestone decoration process works:
- Place the item on the ironing board with the part that will be decorated with rhinestones;
- Use tweezers to carefully pick up the rhinestones and arrange them in the required order;
- Apply the iron to the rhinestones, setting the steam function. The rhinestones should be fixed to the fabric;
- if rhinestones of different sizes are used, first the small rhinestones are glued on, and then the larger ones.
The decor in the hip area and on the pockets looks stylish. Don't be afraid to wash jeans with rhinestones in the washing machine. If you did everything correctly, the rhinestones will stay in place after washing. You can sew on rhinestones with a thin needle and thread. Of course, this will be more painstaking work, but the result will exceed all expectations.
Application
There are situations when a hole, a large stain, or a scuff mark appears on jeans that cannot be hidden. In these cases, an applique will help. You can sew on one applique, or you can come up with a whole plot, not forgetting about symmetry. You can decorate children's jeans with an applique. A character from a favorite cartoon will look harmonious on them.
The applique will be decorated with a decorative stitch or line. You can sew on beads or rhinestones. Ready-made appliques are sold in specialized stores, or you can make them yourself using pieces of fabric. Store patches are already equipped with an adhesive base for reliable fixation on denim. Some people insure themselves and fix the patch along the entire perimeter with a decorative line.
For women's trousers, suede, drape, leather or velvet appliques are ideal. Summer models are best decorated with chintz, linen, calico, and natural silk appliques.
Nuances when working with fabric
Before you start working, you should learn about the nuances of embroidery on denim:
- For cross stitch or satin stitch, you will need a strong embroidery hoop. It is much easier to apply the pattern to a specific piece of fabric with their help;
- Multi-colored floss threads are sold in any craft store. Choose the colors that will harmoniously fit into your everyday wardrobe;
- Specialized stores sell complete sets that include hoops, embroidery threads, needles, and stencils;
- DIY embroidery patterns on jeans with threads can be purchased in specialized stores.
Prepare the following materials:
- strong hoop;
- sharp needles of different sizes;
- multi-colored floss threads;
- beads, rhinestones;
- sharp scissors;
- chalk or special pencils/markers that wash off fabric;
- transfer paper;
- stencils.
You can add lace, spikes, sequins, beads, rhinestones, buttons to the decor. It all depends on what final result you want to get. Embroidery can work real miracles: restore old jeans, make them more fashionable, add uniqueness to an ordinary classic model. You just need to spend a few hours of your free time to get an exclusive option that will surprise others and make you stand out in the crowd.
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