Burda Style For people who sew

Now those places where you had threadbare inner thigh seams and fabric around them (if you had the same problem I had) are on the bottom of your pieces (the greenish ovals on the picture). So cut off some fabric (including the damaged areas) on a straight line (they are shown with blue arrows on the picture above), making the pieces into rectangular shape (or close to one). Then find the grain line and make slanted cuts on each side to make an even trapezoid out of each piece (in other words if you were to run a line lengthwise through the middle of each piece, that line should cut the distance between two slanted lines on the top directly in half and also cut the distance between two slanted lines on the bottom directly in half – and that's pretty much how I measured, drawing all the lines in pencil on the wrong side of the fabric, including that middle one along the grain that is actually not necessary, except for making the measurements). Make sure that you have enough to fit around the bottom of the jeans' top portion plus the seam allowance.