Last day of 2012

Here's what I did the last day of 2012: turned $4 CK (from the local thrift store) boot cut jeans into skinny jeans, which I needed to fit in my new riding boots i got for Christmas. Thanks to my sister for the help!

We laid the pants flat and inside-out, flattening and aligning along the inside seam. We put one leg of my other existing skinny jeans that I wanted to match on the outside seam, and pinned the interior of the leg to match.

We ended up seam ripping the crotch since there was so much fabric. Depending on your pants, you may be able to skip this part. The pins were then tapered gently from the leg out on a curve to as close to the existing bottom of the crotch center point as possible to ensure I didn't lose any height in the waist of the pants.

We sewed the first leg from the crotch down to the leg so the fabric wouldn't bunch at the top. I then tried them on (right-side-out), liked them, and then turned them back inside-out to cut the excess fabric off the newly sewn leg. We left a 1/4 inch excess from the new seam.

We repeated the process on the other leg, the whole process taking about an hour.

They looked spectacular, especially for $4.