Jeans - this is a cult and favorite clothes. Perhaps because of the popularity of picking up something special jeans among a string of models is not easy. Meanwhile, decorative embroidery on jeans, made by own hands, automatically brings the model to the category of unique.
Selection of floss, tools for embroidery
The basis of all real jeans is denim. This is a natural material made from 100% cotton with a dense weave of fibers. Since this material is strong enough, and even rude, embroidery will have to pick up thick embroidery frames and quality sharp needles.
Decorative embroidery is done with floss threads. They can be different in composition. The most common are cotton, viscose and silk. The densest winter jeans can be embroidered even with woolen mulina. The color palette is selected from the selected picture. It can be a one-color picture, and all the colors of the rainbow - depending on your style.
It is necessary to consider one more important nuance at a choice of color scale of a mulina - moult denim after the first-second washes. Even if bought jeans of the highest quality, a slight loss of brightness after washing will be. Well, inexpensive jeans can shed substantially. Therefore, before buying a mulina, soak the jeans in warm water (30-40 degrees) beforehand and add the means for washing colored underwear. It is better to use a gel - it is distributed evenly. Rinse the jeans and in this solution, leave for a while. Then pour out the water and see what color it is. If the water became green from jeans, then orient yourself when choosing a mulina for a green color scheme. If the water has a blue-blue hue, then it is more appropriate for a mulina to choose the same color scheme.
Ways to transfer the picture
- The pattern is applied to the denim fabric with a special carbon paper. It happens in different colors. Especially convenient for transferring the embroidery pattern to a dark cloth is a white carbon.
- Use to transfer the drawing of special markers. They are of two types: washable and disappearing. If you put the pattern with flushable markers, remember that ironing the picture with an iron can not in any case - the contour can remain forever on the fabric. The figure from the vanishing pen is kept on the fabric for 48 hours. But after applying in a few hours, it begins to fade. The contours of the picture must be constantly painted.
- The fabric is applied to the fabric with a nonwoven fabric. First draw a picture on a piece of white thin non-woven fabric. Then cut it neatly along the contour, and glue the hot iron on the place where there will be embroidery on the jeans. This method is ideal for transferring the pattern to a stretch fabric, as the fleece cloth will not allow the fabric to stretch when it is stopped. Accordingly, the embroidery will not be deformed.
Technics of embroidery on jeans
When choosing the technique of embroidery, it is necessary to focus on the density of the interlacing of the denim threads. It is preferable to use simple stitches, richelieu, smooth surface and other embroidery techniques according to the "free contour". If on jeans decorative embroidery will be applied by a cross, get a special overhead canvas. It is applied to the base fabric, and a pattern is embroidered on it. The threads of the canvas are then pulled out, and the embroidery remains on the fabric-base.
We do not recommend embroidery on the natural folds of jeans. This will lead to deformation and noticeably accelerate its wear. When embroidering on nonwoven, do not make very long stitches. Otherwise, the non-woven fabric will subsequently fall out when washing. In addition, when you wear a long stitch, you can unintentionally hook on the embroidery and spoil the picture.
When embroidering on ready-made jeans, it is difficult to dowel the fabric in the embroidery frame, especially if you have purchased a model with narrow trousers. As a rule, in modern models the connecting seams of trousers are different. If you carefully consider the jeans, you can see that one of the seams is made by a "joint seam", and the second - "linen with a smell." We advise you to tear off the pant leg on the docking seam near the place of the planned embroidery - in this place it will be much more convenient to fasten the hoop to the fabric. And the ripped seam after embroidery is sewed on the typewriter.
It is necessary to fix the thread well on the wrong side. After all, we often dress jeans, which means that they often wear off. To further fix the embroidery, you can use non-woven fabric. Open in the tone of the fabric a piece of non-woven fabric about one centimeter larger than the embroidery. And with the help of an iron veneer paste from the wrong side of the embroidery.
Care for embroidery on jeans
Perform embroidery - the floor of the case. It must be protected from the vicissitudes of fate: washing, cleaning, mechanical friction, salt corrosive in winter. Here are some recommendations:
- It is best to wash jeans with embroidery by hand.
- It is recommended to wash jeans with embroidery at a temperature of no more than 30 degrees.
- Do not use products with bleach additives for washing.
- Before washing, zip all the zippers, and turn the jeans inside out.
- If you want to stretch only a place with embroidery, do it this way: put a moistened area of jeans with embroidery on the left palm face up. Then scoop the detergent with the right hand and rub the embroidery effortlessly. In the end, rinse thoroughly in running water.
- Jeans with embroidery after washing are caressed in cool water.
- If possible, do not use all kinds of air conditioners, even those designed for denim. Embroidery can become less durable.
- Products from denim can not be twisted and squeezed - just hang your jeans and let the water drain.
- Dry jeans in a straightened form, in a place protected from the sun.
- But ironing jeans with embroidery is possible, and even necessary! Jeans are rubbed from the wrong side slightly damp or using stripping. Inside the pants under the embroidery is best to put a thick fabric. In this case, the volume of decorative embroidery on jeans will remain.