Two Saturdays
March 14th, and 21st
2:00pm to 6:00pm
$225
Level 3

This class assumes you are comfortable with a sewing machine and understand how to use a commercial apparel pattern.

Have you been intimidated by the idea of making your own jeans, or wish you could make them in hard to find colors or patterns? In this wonderful companion to Annika’s Jeans Fitting class, she will share lots of tips and tricks to make a solid pair of classic 5-pocket jeans with ease and confidence at home.

This class is intended to get you comfortable with working with heavy fabrics and specialized techniques for jeans making. You can use any basic 5-pocket jeans pattern for this class, but save patterns that have unusual structural details for future projects.

• Prerequisite Skills

  • Use and operation of a sewing machine

  • Use of a commercial pattern

  • Confidence with beginner apparel projects

• Skills developed

  • Sewing thick denim fabric, stretch and non-stretch

  • The challenge of creep and torque and how to work with it

  • Flat felled seams and other typical jeans characteristics

  • Front and back pockets

  • Zipper fly fabrication

  • Contrast colored top stitching

  • Rivets

• Supplies

  • Basic 5-pocket Jeans Pattern

  some examples are this, this, or this among others

  • Fabric and findings appropriate to your size and pattern details

Taught by Annika Schindler

Ages 18 and up.

Our classroom is on the second floor and is currently only accessible by stairs. We are working on a solution to make our space accessible to everyone. Thanks for your understanding and patience while we work this out. You may e-mail us at classes@boltfabricboutique.com if you have any questions about this process.

Our cancellation policy can be found here.

This class requires a minimum of 3 participants. The class may be subject to cancellation if the minimum enrollment is not achieved.