DIY Heart Cutout Jeans | Make Thrift Buy #47

Hello and welcome to another episode of Make,
Thrift, Buy, the show where YOU guys send

in interesting, weird or mass-produced clothes
that you’ve seen on the internet, and then

I do my best to recreate them.

Today’s episode has been suggested by a
number of you – thank you to Sophie, Jade and

agus for this suggestion.

So this is probably the least ridiculous pair
of cut-out jeans that I’ve seen so far – have

you guys seen those “cut out” jeans where
the entire front part – and even some of

the back – is missing?

I have, because so many of you guys keep SENDING
me photos of them.

And they make me MAD.

Number 1, because THIS IS SO EASY TO D-I-Y
DON'T SPEND $100 ON THESE!

Literally - get thrift store jeans, cut them
with scissors.

Also what the heck.

Is the aesthetic to pretend that you’ve
been mauled and escaped from a wearwolf or

something?

That you’re too poor to have a nice pair
of jeans but not really because you've actually

spent $100 on UNIF for them?

*FASHION*

But anyway, today, we’re going to use these
as inspiration to make our own pair of heart

cutout jeans.

These are originally from a Japanese brand
called Fig and Viper but they are no longer

available anymore.

So what are we waiting for – let’s get
started.

First, I thrifted myself a pair of fairly
loose-fitting jeans – but, you can use any

jeans that you want for this DIY.

Next I figured out where I wanted to place
my heart cutouts, which is one big one on

the front HERE, and three smaller hearts on
the back down here, here and here.

Now I’m going to make heart templates.

Using a bit of scrap paper, I folded it in
half, and then drew half a heart onto it like

this.

Then I cut this out, and unfolded, I have
a perfectly symmetrical heart.

I made sure that these hearts were the same
size as the cutouts that I wanted on the jeans.

I also put the jeans on, and I marked out
exactly where I wanted the cutouts to be using

some pins.

Then I turned the jeans inside out, and I
made chalk marks where the pins are – I’m

moving the placement just slightly over to
the left to get the cutouts right in the centre

of the leg – and then I took the pins out.

Now I’m going to show you how to do just
one of the heart cutouts, but this will be

the same deal for all 4 heart cutouts that
I make.

Now, if you want the heart cutouts to maintain
their shape while you're wearing your jeans,

especially if you're using a loose-fitting
pair, then you will definitely want to use

interfacing.

This is some light, woven fusible interfacing
that you can basically just iron straight

down onto the wrong side of your fabric.

I needed the interfacing the be just slightly
larger than the cutout, so using the appropriate-sized

heart template for the cutout that I was doing,
I cut a piece of interfacing a bit bigger

than this heart.

I rounded-out the edges of the interfacing,
and then placed it fusible-side down onto

the inside of my jeans, in the spot that I
wanted my heart cutout to sit.

The next step was to iron it onto the inside
of the jean's leg.

Now I'm ironing them on two-at-a-time here
to save time.

First I quickly went over the interfacing
with the iron to make sure it was stuck down,

and then got a cotton shirt and I placed this
over the top, and I pressed down on this for

about 30 seconds.

The interfacing is now stuck onto the jeans.

So next I placed the heart template directly
onto the spot where I wanted the cutout to

be, and I traced around it, directly onto
the interfacing.

Then, I drew a smaller heart, like this, about
5/8ths of an away from the edge of the larger

heart.

Then, with a pair of scissors, I cut out the
smaller heart, making sure that I was only

cutting through ONE layer of the jeans, not
through both layers, which I did by putting

my hand inside the jeans to separate the two
sides.

Next, I made little slits around the shape
wherever there was a curve, or a point.

So, I’m going to make little slits that
go all the way to the bigger heart’s outline,

using some scissors, like this.

These small cuts then let me then fold the
fabric back towards the big heart’s outline,

like this.

After folding the pieces back, I put some
pins through it like this, to keep it secure.

And just a note, at the pointy, top “V”
of the heart, you’ll need to cut off some

of the edges so that they won’t be visible
through the cutout.

Once I’d gone all the way around the heart
shape, it looked like this, and the next step

was to simply sew these pieces down, using
a straight stitch, all the way around the

heart.

Now, it was a little bit tricky getting the
jeans onto the machine – because I wanted

to make sure that I’m only sewing through
ONE layer of the jeans, otherwise I’d sew

up the leg hole – but, trust me, with a
bit of perseverance, it can be done!

Then, starting starting at one of the “sharp”
corners of the heart shape, I carefully stitched

about half an inch away from the cutout’s
edge, making sure that I was sewing down all

of the little “flappy bits” of fabric.

I went pretty slowly here and I made sure
that I removed my pins just before I went

over them with my needle.

When I wanted to turn the presser foot to
sew around the curvy edge of the heart, I

put my needle down, lifted up the presser
foot, and then rotated my material underneath,

put the foot back down, and then continued
on sewing.

Also, the bottom thread will be visible on
the outside of the jeans, around the cutout,

so I made sure that I was using a thread in
a similar colour to the jeans.

However, if you wanted contrasting stitching,
then feel free to use whatever colour thread

that you want!

Also, to save paper and to maintain consistent
heart-shapes, I started out with my largest

heart cutout and as I made them smaller, I
used the same piece of paper.

I simply folded the template back in half,
drew a smaller heart inside the previous one,

cut this out, and then unfolded this gave
me my new template – which I used to do

the same thing for yet another, smaller, cutout.

Also, I noticed tiny bits of fraying at the
corners of my cutout, so I made sure that

these won’t fray anymore by applying a little
bit of fabric glue to these spots, and you

could also use something like fray-check if
you have it.

Then I gave everything an iron to make the
cutouts nice and crisp, and, I’m done!

So, how did I go?

[MUSIC PLAYS]

There are two things that I’ve learned from
doing this, that I think would improve this

project if I were to do it again:
The first is to use a pair of jeans with thicker

denim.

My jeans are actually made out of this kinda
weird, super light-material - according to

the tag, they are "lifestyle denim", whatever
that means - but they’re less like your

typical denim and more like dress-fabric.

I think that the hearts would retain their
shapes a little bit better if normal-to-heavy

weight denim was used.

The second is that I think this would probably
work better on a pair of tight-fitting or

skinny jeans.

The original jeans have the same problem as
mine – the heart kind of gets distorted

and warped if your leg isn’t out like THIS.

I mean, the shapes still look like hearts,
for the most part, when you are just standing

normally - BUT they would look like hearts
all of the time if you were to use skin-tight

jeans.

Nonetheless, this method still does work really
well to give you cute cutouts in your jeans

so my conclusion is: to thrift a pair of jeans
or use an old pair of jeans and make these

for yourself.

[Scissor snipping and zipper sound effect]

OKAY- one thing you wanna make sure of when
you’re wearing these jeans:

put some sunscreen under them holes.

Or you’ll get a sunburn in the shape of
a heart.

Actually.... that sounds kinda cool.

But you know what's also cool, kids - SKINCARE!

Skincare is cool.

I will not be held responsible anyone trying
to tan the shape of a heart into their leg.

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