Easy Fix

My friend Meghan asked me to take in a jacket she had bought from a thrift store because it was just a smidge too big, soooooo I'm going to show you step by step how I did it...

Above are the before pictures, for her it was mainly just baggy in the bottom and in the back espically. The first thing I had her do was to just put the jacket on inside out, so it was be easier for me to pin it, but I could still see the shape of the jacket on her.

All you need in one pin on the bottom of both sides, then you can take it off. After just make sure to measure from the original seam to the pin to make sure the pins are evenly spaced on both sides or the it might look lopsided. I did Meghans' an inch from the side seam to the pin on both sides.

With the pins still in the jacket start sewing! I started at the original seam of the jacket right where the arm pit is and then went downward (toward the pin and it looked like a diagonal seam). Also put your sewing machine on a loose stitch in case its too tight or too loose it will be easy to remove and redo.

Sorry its a little blurry

Once you have the preview stitch in, try it on if you need to make adjustment make sure to do it again with the loose stitch just in case, but if it fits perfect then you can stitch over your first seam with a tigher stitch so it stays. Since I got my tigher stitch almost exactly in line with the loose one I didn't bother to remove it.

Loose Stitch

Tight stitch over loose stitch

Now we are all done! I hoped you enjoyed this blog and let me know if you liked it by commenting or emailing me at raesstyle@yahoo.com. Just a side note this process works on anything, it doesn't have to be a jacket you could take almost anything. Remember though we didn't do anything to make the sleeves or the shoulders smaller just the bottom tighter and part of the back and be patient with sewing it takes practice.

These what the final outcome was of the jacket and the seam from the outside...