The easiest way out is to sew circular knitted cuffs to the sleeves of the jacket. Or knit the cuffs yourself.
We will show you a very simple method that will not require additional costs from you and will not tire you of searching for consumables.
To sew cuffs and thus “save” your child’s favorite jacket, you will need scraps of thick cotton or woolen knitwear.
Measure the width of the half sleeve along the bottom edge.
Cut out the cuff parts from scraps of woolen knitwear - four strips slightly less than the width of the jacket sleeve. And a width equal to the length of the future cuff. Allowances for cuts - 1 cm.
Fold the cuff piece with the right side inward and stitch short sections using an overlocker.
Place one cuff piece inside the other with right sides facing each other and
Stitch along a short edge.
Turn the cuff right side out.
Then turn one part of the cuff inside the other. Iron and, if necessary, lightly press the cuff along the seam.
Place the sleeve into the cuff, aligning the bottom of the sleeve with the open edges of the cuff. If necessary, baste or pin with tailor's pins.
Everyone is familiar with the situation when a beautiful and comfortable piece of clothing becomes too tight. This may be due to weight gain, pregnancy, or the wrong choice of washing or drying clothes. However, your favorite item can be remade so that it not only fits well, but also takes on a new original look.
We have prepared interesting ideas for you, how change clothing options and at the same time turn things into something beautiful...
1. The item is wide, but the sleeves have become narrow? Use homemade inserts. They can be anything: lace, embroidered or contrasting fabric.
2. If your favorite item has become narrow in width, the side inserts have become lice. The material for them can be chosen in a single color or to match the color of the main product.
3. Contrasting inserts that differ in texture and color will not only help to expand the blouse, but will also become an interesting decorative element.
4. This is how you can increase the size of your favorite blouse or tunic. To do this, add inserts on the back or shelf of the product.
5. Follow the same procedure with trousers: use side inserts along the entire length. Moreover, both from the outside and from the inside seam.
6. Have your comfortable jeans recently started to put pressure on your stomach? Make inserts in the waistband area along the side or back seam.
7. Here’s a great idea to increase the size of the dress in all respects. I already want the same for myself!
Nowadays, repairing and extending old things is not so relevant: in the era of the heyday of the mass market, it is easier to buy new clothes than redo the old one. But sometimes it’s a pity to throw away your favorite thing, you want to update or refresh it. Shortening clothes is most often not difficult, but lengthening them beautifully is a little more difficult.
1. This is probably one of the most common methods. He looks just great! Add a strip of fabric or lace along the bottom of the product. Color and material depend on your imagination.
2. Fashion trend of this season - transparent fabric insert. Place it on the hem of a skirt or light summer dress.
3. And this is even more radical transformation of trousers. Openwork inserts are placed not at the bottom, but in the middle of the product. To enhance the effect, you can decorate your pockets and belt with lace. Personally, I really like this option.
For girls who love a sporty style of clothing, knitted cuffs will be an excellent option for changing the shape of trousers.
4. If we talk about blouses and jumpers, then there are a huge number of options. The most popular of them is adding lace inserts along the bottom of the product.
Everyone is familiar with the situation when a beautiful and comfortable piece of clothing becomes too tight. This may be due to weight gain, pregnancy, or the wrong choice of washing or drying mode. However, your favorite item can be remade so that it not only fits well, but also takes on a new original look.
The item is wide, but the sleeves have become narrow? Use homemade shoulder straps. They can be anything: lace, embroidered or contrasting fabric.
If your favorite item has become too tight in width, use sewn-in side inserts. The material for them can be chosen in a single color or in the color of the main product.
Contrasting inserts that differ in texture and color will not only help to expand the blouse, but will also become an interesting decorative element.
This is how you can increase the size of your favorite blouse or tunic. To do this, add inserts along the back or shelf of the product.
With trousers, follow the same pattern: use side inserts along the entire length. Moreover, both from the outside and from the inside seam.
Are your previously comfortable jeans starting to put pressure on your stomach? Make inserts in the waistband area in the side or back seam.
Here's a great idea to increase the size of the dress in all respects. I already want the same for myself!
Nowadays, repairing and extending old things is not so relevant: in the era of the heyday of mass market, it is easier to buy new clothes than to remake old ones. But sometimes it’s a pity to throw away your favorite thing, you want to update or refresh it. Most often, shortening is not difficult, but lengthening beautifully is a little more difficult.
How to lengthen clothes
This is probably one of the most common methods. He looks just great! Add a strip of fabric or lace along the bottom of the product. Color and material depend on your imagination.
A very fashionable trend this season is an insert made of transparent fabric. Place it on the hem of a skirt or light summer dress.
And this is an even more radical transformation of trousers. Openwork inserts are placed not at the bottom, but in the middle of the product. To enhance the effect, you can decorate your pockets and belt with lace. Personally, I really like this option.
For girls who love a sporty style of clothing, knitted cuffs will be an excellent option for changing the shape of trousers.
If we talk about blouses and jumpers, there are a huge number of options. The most popular of them are lace inserts at the bottom of the product.
Looking at this photo, I immediately wanted to have the same summer T-shirt. To remake it, you need to make a contrasting fabric insert in the middle of the product.
As you can see, you don’t always need to throw away a tight blouse or a too short skirt, especially if it concerns your favorite clothes. Use these simple but resourceful tricks and stay on trend!
So, I have a shirt, good and expensive, but I’m terribly bored with it. Having scoured the Internet, I came across one wonderful master class that solved the problem of two things at once - a shirt and a guipure top, which my sister-in-law gave me and which I really dislike.
- Let's start by cutting off the sleeves and shoulders of our old shirt. By the way, here is a variant of the black and white style, but if you add a little imagination, you can achieve the coolest results of the alteration.
— Using the cut off shoulders as a base, we cut out exactly the same ones from guipure or lace. The most interesting thing is transforming old clothes into stylish ones with your own hands, when you realize that the result will exceed all expectations.
— Carefully trim our guipure patch and distribute it over the surface of the table to slightly overcast the edges, if necessary.
— We begin to sew the guipure patch to the shoulders of the shirt; you can either use a machine or sew it by hand.
— We sew very carefully from the side of the collar so that no seams stick out, because they will rub your shoulders.
- Well, that's all, with just a little effort you can have a gorgeous new shirt to brighten up your wardrobe, and you haven't spent any of your budget on it.
But we don’t say goodbye to you here, come back again!
Remaking things is my favorite pastime! Things fall out of use for various reasons: they don’t fit, they’re out of fashion, there’s a stain or a hole in a visible place. But the fabric is still quite usable, why not remake it and continue to wear it?
Beautiful, original, budget-friendly!
The most beautiful and fashionable skirts
I bring to your attention the idea of using leftovers and scraps of knitwear, as well as reworking existing items, for example, in this way you can quite simply lengthen the sleeves on children's clothing, just cut them and crochet the pieces. Fresh and cool ideas!
However, I really liked the dresses too.
Who's talking about what, and I'm talking about alterations. Not because I love the process, but because I love ideas. They often help turn standard clothes into something original, and therefore wearable with pleasure. The other day I came across some very interesting solutions. Each of which can be interpreted in your own way and tied to your wardrobe. You can make something original out of what you have in your wardrobe. If not for yourself (at home/dacha), then for your children and grandchildren. For example, a jumper is a knitted product without a collar or fastener. You can diversify it by wearing a) with a skirt/trousers; b) blouse-shirt under. The options are quickly running out, as is the time of year and the desire to wear it. Here's an idea that will help the jumper stay in your wardrobe for some time.
Making home (and why only home?) trousers narrow, that is, practical, would also not be bad.
This, of course, is from fashionable clothes that are sold, but... very inspiring
Note: this photo-memo is on my desktop as a reminder of the spoiled blouses-shirts with a low opening. As a bit of a sewer, I start the alteration by ripping out the sleeves, and that’s where I finish - because the low armhole is already difficult to use afterwards, there are a lot of problems. There is no need to steam the sleeves
A nice result in my opinion. Children will especially like it
You can cut T-shirts not only in straight lines. Creative idea for a T-shirt. Let it be for her home-dacha appointments
Boho style: a lot of everything. Your version may be much more modest
Men's shirts are in business! For example, in a dress for a girl
“You always need an apron,” a friend told me, asking me to find a simple pattern. I don't have aprons at all. And it never was. But on my silk blouses (you won’t change your clothes before toasting a couple of toasts for a guest) greasy spots often appear, which, alas, fade into spots during communication.
And therefore - a pattern diagram:
And an apron from a shirt, even your own, even your husband’s, or even your son’s. The ribbon brings life to life and there are a lot of pockets - good
If you still have a piece of leather lying around!
When I saw it, I was stunned by surprise: collecting pieces of leather into a rectangle, albeit large, is much easier than sewing something serious out of it.
Favorite idea. Suitable for everyone: girls, young women and ladies
An oversized t-shirt and chiffon make a great tunic for leggings. Instead of chiffon, you can use a large silk scarf, if available.
Chiffon + knitwear is a favorite combination of designers. And a boring sweater immediately becomes feminine and cute. And that's it shuttle folds different sizes
For those who love dresses. This dress can be made from any knitwear and even from a long T-shirt. If something went wrong with the dress, we will redo it! As it turned out, there is a fairly simple way to do this. See for yourself:
This makes such a cute dress
A short dress, after thinking carefully, can also be updated. How would you like this option? In any case, it leads to the right idea
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Save so you don't lose.
Before the start of each season, mothers conduct an audit of their child’s wardrobe in order to have time to prepare things for wear and make the necessary repairs.How to remake a jacket or coat.
The simplest solution is lengthen the bottom of the jacket and sleeves. You can sew cuffs, and to the hem - a fur trim or a strip of fabric that is similar in tone or, conversely, contrasts with the main fabric.
But there is a more elegant solution to this issue: a jacket or coat can grow by insert or strip. A jacket or coat can be completely ripped open, the parts washed, and then recut taking into account the inserts. You can also open only the side seams to the armhole, cut the material under the armhole approximately along the chest line, stitch the cut out inserts, and then stitch the sides.
Similarly, you can decorate with inserts and, at the same time, increasing the size of a jacket or coat in any part of it, you only need to show a little imagination. You can increase the width of a coat or jacket using the fastener bar; you can lengthen the sleeves not only with fabric cuffs, but also with the help of knitted cuffs or decorative elastic bands.
A collar that has become narrow can be expanded by spreading, using the fabric of the belt, or by cutting out a new one. And you can deepen the armhole by using a new sleeve line, shortening the side seam, while maintaining the profile of the armhole. A jacket or coat can be decorated with decorative pockets and a collar made of finishing fabric.
Don't forget about the lining. It can be made from new material if the old one has become unusable. To complete the set, you can sew a cap, beret or handbag from finishing material.
How trousers “grow”
Taking into account the fashion for combining fabrics in clothes, solving this issue is not at all difficult.
Combining basic material with denim, corduroy or just brightly colored fabric, you can turn old trousers into a fashionable model. Pants, like a jacket, can be ripped apart, washed and recut, or even cut at the insertion points. For example, on the knees, where the material is rubbed the most. The width of the cut insert should be equal to the width of the trouser part, the height is determined by the size of the required extension.
The inserts can be decorated with finishing stitches, flaps or zippers. If the trousers have insulation, then an insulating pad and lining must be sewn to the insert material.
You can lengthen your trousers or jeans with even less effort: sew a strip of contrasting fabric at the bottom, braid or fringe (in jeans, you can simply rip the hem of the bottom and, by pulling out the threads, make a fringe from the fabric of the jeans themselves, securing it in advance at a certain height with a stitch).
If there are problems with the upper part of the trousers, you can expand the belt: make it double or triple. Undo the old belt. From the new material, cut out a strip equal in length to the old belt. The width for a single belt is 10 cm (finished 5 cm), for a double belt 16 cm (8 cm), for a triple belt 18 cm (9 cm). Seam allowances 1-1.5 cm.