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Re: Jean pockets
Here's what you'll need:
A pair of jeans
A sharp seam ripper
Firm fusible interfacing
Embroidery designs and thread in colors of your choice
Heavy tear-away stabilizer
Temporary adhesive spray
Sewer's Aid (if you use metallic threads)
Topstitch needle, size 14
YLI Jean Stitch thread or your choice of heavy topstitching thread
Wonder Tape
A hammer and hard surface, like a sidewalk
Use a sharp seam ripper to take out the topstitching. Most pockets have a heavy back-tack stitch at the top of the pocket. Once you carefully pick that out, the rest of the stitching comes out easily.
Use a sharp seam ripper. If you've had yours for a while, it might be time to get a new one (they get dull).
Fuse a piece of heavy interfacing to the wrong side of the pocket.
If you're worried that the raw edges of the pocket might be a problem, you can cover them with fusible interfacing to protect them, too.
Import the design you are going to use into your embroidery machine.
Center the design in the middle of the smallest hoop it will fit in.
Hoop heavy tear-away stabilizer and draw "cross-hair" lines to make it easy to get your pocket directly in the center of the hoop.
Use temporary adhesive spray to adhere the pocket to the stabilizer.
Always use Sewer's Aid on the thread. Don't put it directly on your embroidery machine because it will mess up the tension discs.
Embroider the design on the pocket.
When the embroidery is done, take the pocket out of the hoop and tear away as much of the stabilizer as you can.
Here are some tips to make sewing your pockets back on a snap! The corners of a pocket are very thick because of all the edges that are folded on top of one another. You can use a hammer to gently pound the thick spots to soften the fabric. Softening the thick corners will make them easier to sew through.
If you didn't take out the original topstitching thread when you removed the pockets, pick it out now. Notice that the thread protects denim from fading, so you have a nice dark line that you can use as a guide to sew the pocket back on. Pick off all the topstitching before you sew the pocket back on.
Pick off all the topstitching before you sew the pocket back on. Wonder Tape is so sticky that you don't have to cover every inch of the edge—just get some on each side.
After you peel the paper backing off, it looks like mini Scotch tape. Peel the paper backing off the Wonder Tape.
Stick the pocket back into its original position. Then, set your machine up for topstitching. Change the needle to a size 14 topstitching needle, and thread the needle with heavy YLI Jean Stitch thread. Don't use the Jean Stitch thread in the bobbin; it will be too much for your machine to handle. I use all-purpose thread in the bobbin—either the color of the Jean Stitch thread or the denim. If you can't find Jean Stitch thread in a store near you, you can get it at Red Rock Threads. Lengthen your stitch length to 3.5–4.0mm. A topstitching needle has a very long eye so that it can accommodate the heavy topstitching thread.
Starting at the top edge of the pocket, follow the dark line to stitch the pocket back on. To reinforce the stitching at the top edges of the pocket, backstitch to create the look of a bar tack. If you stitch along the outer line all the way to the opposite top edge of the pocket, you can backstitch (creating a "bar tack") and then continue back on the inner topstitch line going in the opposition direction to your start point. That way you can finish sewing the pocket with a back tack on the top of the pocket where you started sewing. You shouldn't have any trouble going around the corners if you softened them with a hammer!
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