How to Iron Jeans for Bell Bottom Insert

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Melina Piroso and welcome to Expert Village. In this series we?re going to talk about turning regular boring old jeans into funky bell bottoms. In this clip we're going to talk about preparing the jeans to turn into bell bottoms. So the first thing you?re going to do is you?re going to lay them out on the table and you?re going to make sure that they are even. You're going to take the seam like this, you?re going to fold it kind of make sure they?re very even and then you?re going to iron them flat and if they have this crease here on the middle you?re going to want to try and get rid of that. Very important whenever you are sewing something to iron it first to get out any weird shape that the garment maybe holding. So you're going to iron the front and then you?re going to flip them over and iron the back, sometimes if they?re a little old it may take a while to get out that initial crease that they come with. These are the jeans that we are going to use as our fabric that we are going to add to the other jeans to make bell bottoms. So we're going to iron these; also make sure they are as flat as possible ok, and we're only going to use the bottom of this so you don't really have to bother with the top you can save those later to make cutoffs or skirts or whatever your heart desires."