Once you've cut your horizontal strips, you want to add a natural, frayed look to your jeans. Take a pair of tweezers and gently pluck the loose threads surrounding each line you made. Fray the ends until the jeggings are ripped to your liking. Some people prefer lightly frayed tears, while other people want the jeans so torn only thin strands of thread remain.
Run your jeans through the washing machine. After you rip your jeggings, there will be a lot of loose tufts of fabric collected on the jeans where you ripped them.
Run them through a gentle wash cycle in your washing machine to clean them up before wearing them. Air dry your jeggings. As ripped jeggings will be a little fragile, it's recommended that you let them air dry rather than running them through a dryer.
You should always air dry your jeggings after washing them. Part 3. Do not make vertical cuts. Stick to horizontal cuts when ripping any type of jeans, including jeggings. Vertical cuts are harder to maintain and can result in your jeggings splitting apart with time.
Minimize distressing on the side seams. If you want to distress jeggings on the side, only make small cuts near the seams. If you distress too much near the seams of your pants, they may split apart. Stick to small amounts of distressing. Less is generally more when it comes to distressing. Rips tend to get bigger on their own over time.
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You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. Frayed hems are one of the quickest ways to create that designer denim look. This is a simple and chic way to add some flare to your own DIY alteration. Using a ruler and chalk or soapstone, measure 2 lines — the lowest one will be the back hem, and the higher one will be the front hem.
Using a seam ripper you can get one at your local dollar store , razor blade or sharp and pointed scissor, carefully pull both sides of the seams to reveal the thread holding both pieces of fabric together and cut the threads. You only want to cut the threads up to the second line you have created. This will create the uneven hem. Using your ruler and pencil, measure another line above the front hem.
I measured about 1 inch here. This area will be the area that will have loose threads. Make sure that you are sure this is the spacing that you want before cutting! After you have decided your measurement, cut along the line with a scissor, but do not cut up the hem to cut the rectangle of fabric off.
It will still be attached. You are just cutting a horizontal slit! Using a pair of tweezers, gently begin pulling a few short threads running vertical from the 1-inch piece of denim.
As you continue to pull, the threads will become loose and you will be able to pull more in a bunch. Now that you have created a considerable gap in threads, you can gently pull on a group of horizontal threads and wiggle them free from the short vertical threads.
This is a quicker and efficient way to remove the vertical threads without pulling them out one-by-one. Now I am adding a little more distressing with my cheese grater. I am using the small grater and this will make the fibers on denim worn. On the other leg I started with the cheese grater on a much larger area. Now using my seam ripper and tweezers I am going to pull out my threads as I did above.
If your distressed area requires an additional piece of fabric so that your skin does not show, you will add that piece now. Add a different color denim to the back of your distressed area and pin it in place. Stitch around the distressed area making sure you are sewing the two pieces together. Now that I have finished distressing all my denim pieces, it is time to give them a wash in the washing machine and then throw them in the dryer to complete the process.
This is necessary to fray the areas that have been cut. Once you have completed these steps you will need to press your denim. This last step completes my How-to DIY distressing for denim.
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