How to make regular sweat pants into slim fitting joggers

Make Regular Sweat Pants Into Slim Fitting Joggers

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The first thing is to go buy some sweatpants at Walmart or any store that you like.

The first thing is to go buy some sweatpants at Walmart or any store that you like.

The second thing is to go to a hardware store and purchase a sewing machine and other supplies listed in the supply box.

Get your sweat pants and turn them inside out.

Get your sweat pants and turn them inside out.

Take scissors and cut the sides of where the seams on the sweatpants and where the knee would be. Do both on sides

Take scissors and cut the sides of where the seams on the sweatpants and where the knee would be. Do both on sides

Take your box cutter and go to the bottom of the sweat pants ankle seams and cut the seams off.Take out the elastic that is all ready in the sweatpants and put aside.

Next take your colored highlighter and put down some dotted lines where you want them to be and how tight you would want them to be.

Get your safety pins and put them down where you drew your dotted lines.

Then take your elastic fabric bands and put them where the seams were. Take the extra fabric from the sweatpants and put them over the elastic.

When the fabric is over the elastic then take the sewing machine and sew the extra fabric from the pants to the top of the elastic.Then sew another line identical to the top line and 1 inch spaced.

Then get the sewing machine and sew the sides of the legs until you get to the pins. Then unclip the pins one by one as your sewing. Follow the dotted lines that you drew to.

  • 1.0 Box cutter
  • 1.0 Sweatpants
  • 10.0 Safety pins
  • 1.0 Sewing machine
  • 1.0 Scissors
  • 1.0 Bright colored highlighter
  • 3.0 Extra fabric
  • 2.0 3 inches of with a elastic fabric