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Elastic insert on jeans (SML) Thank you Cea. Your suggestions were very helpful and I will try them on the next pair of jeans I need to expand. --- You're welcome. I forgot to add that I always use wide black elastic for this type of alteration. It is less obvious--not, as another post pointed out, as ugly and underwear-looking as white elastic. It seems to look more like part of the design when done in black. Cea |
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On this same thread, I wonder if elastic would take dye well, and, if so, what type of dye should use? Cold water dye? I have an enormous roll of 2 & 1/2 inch wide elastic, and it occurs to me that waist alterations would look even better if I could dye some of the elastic shades of denim blue. I'll eventually experiment, but hate to waste a package of dye on a hunk of elastic when I know I can rummage through the closet and find something else that needs to be my favorite shade of blue. Cea |
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I'll eventually experiment, but hate to waste a package of dye on a
hunk of elastic when I know I can rummage through the closet and find something else that needs to be my favorite shade of blue. Well, Cea, why don't you dye something else, and just add a hunk of elastic in the dye bath? Whenever I dye anything black, I always throw in all my faded black cotton socks. Rit does make a denim blue dye, by the way. Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati |
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I bought some wide black elastic with instruction from Kathy Ruddy at a
sewing show for this. I still have not tried it. She has instructions to add this to a pattern to add the elastic as you construct the garment. Perhaps you can adapt it to an existing pair of pants. http://www.getcreativeshow.com/semin...ic_inserts.htm Joy S-E Has anyone slit down a jean's waistband and inserted an elastic panel to enlarge the waist? It ends up as a v-shaped insert and makes the waist more comfortable. |
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