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This is my first refashion project. My summer blue jeans got torn and I decided to try and cut them to shorts. You need basic sewing skills and a sewing machine.
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First, I cut the pants to the length I wanted.
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Then I sewed a piece of fabric, cut on the bias, right side to pants' wrong side along the cutting line.
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Then I turned the piece of fabric right side up and attached to the pants' leg (right side) with pins and hand sewed a basting stitch.
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Then I sewed two lines with two different types of stitches but this is optional.
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I did this for both legs.
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Then I sewed some sturdier patches for the inner side of the thighs...
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... and sewed them on. And then I sewed more patches to the spots where the fabric was thinner. I used an old shirt for the patches and hems.
