Skinny Jeans Burda 7863

Currently this blog is seeing the end of lots of projects started at the beginning of the Summer. Eventually, here are my skinny jeans. I have stayed away from this style for a long time but have finally succumbed. When I try them on in the shops I find the waist is always too big for the hip size required for my derriere. However, what would happen if I made them in a really stretchy cord I thought? I really like using cord at this time of year, you may have noticed...

I bought this fabric from Myfabrics.co.uk in the sale. They often have interesting stretch fabrics in their sale. I guess people are a bit more wary of sewing with stretch but I have practiced with it a bit now and am not frightened. The stretch is 40%. You find it out by measuring 10cm of fabric on the stretch grain, then stretch it as far as it will go. My 10 cm turned out to go to 14cm so it has 40% stretch. Little tip there for you.

I made some adjustments to the Burda 7863 pattern:

• Took 2cm out of the front and back seat depth as my last two pairs from this pattern were too high waisted.
• Did not interface the waistband to keep it stretchy.
• Omitted the belt loops to make them smooth enough to wear with a tunic
• Took a stack out of the back waist yoke for the right hip:waist ratio
• My mum pinned out the legs for me so that I did not have baggy knees
• Generally, I kept sewing and trying on, sewing and trying on.

 

I am really pleased with them. I think I have a few centimeters of bum wrinkling (I'm not a perfectionist)but that might just be my bottom! You can bend, stretch, squat and run up and down the stairs and they just keep recovering. I think they will fit into my Autumn wardrobe well with some of my other makes - Victoria shawl, sock yarn scarf, Mathilde blouse, spotty vintage hepburn collar blouse and a gaggle of coco long sleeved T-shirts - the list is seemingly endless.

These jeans took me ages, all of the summer holidays in fact, tiny little stages completed during the whole six weeks and a final push this week to finish and hem them. 

'You can eat a whole cow - a bit at a time!'

Jo xxx

PS. I bought a new camera so no blurry bum photos today. Hooray!