How to Turn Regular Jeans into Skinny Jeans

Skinny jeans are very popular these days. While most of us want to look trendy, we don't always have the money to buy the latest trends. With some basic sewing skills, you can alter last year's clothes to keep up with the latest trends. If you have a sewing machine, turning your regular jeans into skinny jeans can be a breeze.

Things You'll Need

• Safety pins
• Straight pins
• Sewing machine
• Thread
• Scissors

Instructions

1. Turn your jeans inside out and put them on.

2. Use safety pins to pin up the inner seam of the legs. Pull your jean legs out at the inner seams. Determine how narrow you want the legs to be and pin together the leg as far up as you want. Use safety pins because they stay in when you take the jeans off without stabbing you in the leg.

3. Take the jeans off once both legs are pinned. Make sure you haven't pinned the legs so tightly that you can't get them off.

4. Lay the jeans flat and replace the safety pins with straight pins, because safety pins are hard to sew over. Put all the straight pins you need in before removing any safety pins. This way you won't ruin the line you've already pinned.

5. Use your sewing machine to sew a seam along the line of straight pins.

6. Cut off the excess fabric, turn right side out and wear.

Tips & Warnings

• You can try sewing this by hand, but denim is hard to sew, and I wouldn't recommend it.