Customising jeans
2019-Oct-17, Thursday 12:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chebeThe other half of the overalls is the trousers. I found some wide-legged white jeans, on sale, claiming to be 100% cotton. Grabbed a couple of pods of Dylon's All-in-1 machine dye in Deep Violet, and had at. It's one pod to 600g fabric. The trousers need to be three different colours so I cut the legs off just below the knees. That left about 500g of jeans to become dark purple. I put them in the machine with one and a half pods (and a pair of gloves).
The fabric of the jeans took the dye as well as the packaging said, so it must have been 100% cotton. But, the thread didn't, stayed bright white, so must have been 100% polyester. At least with the bib in place most of the white thread isn't visible.
The bottom of the legs, about 200g, went in with half a pod of Deep Violet. When they came out I sewed the bottom of the legs back on to the rest of the jeans.
To get the third colour I took some of the same lilac cotton I used in the bib, and made four rectangles the width of the jeans leg, plus seam allowance. Sewed right-sides together, turned right-side out, and a double turned hem. Then sewed on to the bottom of the legs just above the jeans hem.
The darker purple isn't quite dark enough. Maybe next time I should try a little black dye as well? The lighter purple is quite close to the lilac cotton and could also be a little darker. Because the middle shade was achieved on the trousers leg fabric I had none spare to add the pockets that are the same shade to the thighs. Next time I need to try and have excess, or at least matched, fabric to add the pockets. Also, if possible the legs should be wider. But for all that, quite functional overalls.
Dyeing white jeans Deep Violet
Photo by chebe
The fabric of the jeans took the dye as well as the packaging said, so it must have been 100% cotton. But, the thread didn't, stayed bright white, so must have been 100% polyester. At least with the bib in place most of the white thread isn't visible.
The bottom of the legs, about 200g, went in with half a pod of Deep Violet. When they came out I sewed the bottom of the legs back on to the rest of the jeans.
To get the third colour I took some of the same lilac cotton I used in the bib, and made four rectangles the width of the jeans leg, plus seam allowance. Sewed right-sides together, turned right-side out, and a double turned hem. Then sewed on to the bottom of the legs just above the jeans hem.
Customised jeans, finished, hung
Photo by chebe
The darker purple isn't quite dark enough. Maybe next time I should try a little black dye as well? The lighter purple is quite close to the lilac cotton and could also be a little darker. Because the middle shade was achieved on the trousers leg fabric I had none spare to add the pockets that are the same shade to the thighs. Next time I need to try and have excess, or at least matched, fabric to add the pockets. Also, if possible the legs should be wider. But for all that, quite functional overalls.
Customised jeans, finished, flat
Photo by chebe
