Altering pants

Alterations expert Pamela Howard walks through her go-to method of removing excess fabric from back trouser legs to improve the fit of ready-to-wear or hand-sewn pants.

So it's been a while since my last tutorial - here's one from a pair of granny pants I bought for $3.00 at the op-shop. I made this becaus...

You can make your pants bigger around the waist using either stretching or sewing techniques. The easiest way to widen the waistband of your pants is to stretch the fabric to make it looser. You can also make more permanent alterations with scissors and a sewing machine.

Tailor and hem those slightly oversized jeans with a few easy steps.

Pant Waist - Having to constantly pull up your pants can be really annoying and embarrassing. Save yourself from the inconvenience and embarrassment by learning how to alter your too-big pants and jeans! To alter the waistline, all you need is to alter from the center back of the pants. You need to remove the belt loop first, then measure how much fabric you need to take out. Use pins to mark the point you want to be altered, then sew from there.

Learn how to fix your jeans so they don't gap or sag (or show crack when you sit down!). Easy sewing tutorial. How to take in or make the waistband smaller.

So, as you already know, I am self taught…so I honestly just try things and hope for the best :) I won these awesome Abercrombie & Fitch corduroy pants on eBay recently…have I menti…

Greetings my friends and a big Aussie hello to you all today. I hope that you learnt a new fitting technique from the previous post How to Lengthen Your Back Rise in relation to the new Harper Pants Pattern. For today’s post I am going to share with you the method on shortening your front [...]

In this video you will learn to take in jeans waist and resize jeans waist. You may need to alter the jeans waist if its too loose or too tight. So in case if the jeans waist is too big then you can learn how to make jeans waist smaller with sewing and without sewing. Hey, I came with super easy and exciting hacks for downsizing the waist of the jeans. You already have seen our many videos about how to fix holes in jeans, pants, shirts. #jeans #resizewaist #alteration

1. Lay pants with desired leg width on top of your old, but well fitting in the waist pair (after undoing hem). 2. Mark seam line wit...