How To Take In Jeans At The Waist: Downsize Easily Like A Pro!

This is the tutorial to watch if you want to take in the waist of your jeans both easy and professionally! Do you have jeans that are too big and need to know how to take in jeans at the waist to make them fit perfectly? Well you've come to the right place because sewing educator Anastasia Chatzka has come up with the perfect method for downsizing the waist of your jeans to make them smaller and fit perfectly! So let's alter the waist of your jeans together, nobody will even know YOU were the one who's the tailor!

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[RickShort]

I just successfully tailored 3 pair of pants thanks to your tutorial. Thank you.

[desirae]

I’ve always had a problem finding jeans that fit and I always have a gap in the back regardless, but I followed your video and they fit so good now!! Thank you!! I’m so excited to do this to all my jeans

[michabaulch]

I cannot tell you how excited I was to see you post this 😅 I have at least 3 pairs of jeans I've been hanging onto that need altering. Thanks for the great video, looking forward to trying this out myself.

[jennydiydavey]

This was the best demonstration I've seen. Thank you!

[Ber.itsCold]

I have a whole pile of jeans I’ve been neglecting and I saved this video to see if I could make myself get them done 🤣 Results? YEP! Will be starting that project next week!

[judibowen]

I'm a fairly experienced sewer, but haven't dared take in jeans before, you've given me the confidence to do it. Thanks SO much!

[Alexandercult]

❤ you shine through in this video ! Thank you for this explanation on how to take in denim at the waist i was so stumped on where to even begin and you simplified it for us so easily !

[joannawebb]

I've followed your tutorial and am thrilled with the results! Thank you so much 😊

[MsHahax]

This is the best video I've found! Not only was it easy to follow but I found you so encouraging! Thank you so much :)

[maraberrios]

Love how you made this so easy to understand 💗

[gabbymckenzie]

Thanks so much for this lesson. My son is tall and skinny and jeans never fit in the waist. Adjusting them like this worked so well!

[nadiasews]

Brilliant trick for taking in the waist under the tag!!! Thank you for this tutorial now I don’t have to turn away these kinds of business!

[nancyruth]

that was great! I've always had to take jeans in at the waste and I'm old enough to remember having to buy "boy jeans" because there was no such thing as jeans for women back when I was a how I did it was to take off the pockets (not all the way off), remove the wasteband like it was done in the video, take in two darts on either side of the back seam, put the pockets back on and redo the wasteband in the hid the seam with the belt a lot of work compared to how you did it! Thank you so much for showing me a much easier method! 😁

[GraceCarter-fn]

Did this with american eagle jeans for the first time and it worked great! Took in almost 3 inches and you cant even tell, thank you so much for sharing this tutorial!!

[girliedog]

Nice, I've been losing weight and want to salvage my old jeans. Thanks so much for this demo.

[cynthiacullen]

I was meant to watch your video, not just to have you show how to make jeans tighter in the waist but I’m digging this bump jumper !! I consider myself pretty talented and have many projects going all the time, and I just had my industrial sewing machine gone through. And I’m ready to start making fun stuff . Thanks

[delmahockett]

Thank you for saying I have to undo the whole seam and redo it. Also yayyy for using the hump jumper!😉😀

[pavlal.]

Thank you, this is such a great timing. I have made my first pair of jeans and they expanded in the waist, so I need to take them in. I was going to do darts, but this is much neater and cleaner, thank you 👍

[sonjawade]

Thank you so much for this tutorial. I watched and followed a different tutorial on a pair of practice jeans I’d bought from a charity store. Result wasn’t great. I can now unpick and follow your tutorial which is so much easier. I do usually watch and follow some of your tutorials, don’t know how I missed this one!! From your UK 🇬🇧 fan❤

[Methotty]

This was real easy and very straightforward. Since I don’t have a machine, I’ll just have to continue with hand sewing