A well-placed patch can transform a boring shirt or pair of pants.
Few people can afford to shell out money to purchase a brand new wardrobe every time they get sick of their clothes and many people often get tired of their wardrobe after a few months. However, you can breathe new life into your clothes just by making simple decorative changes that will add instant pizzazz to each item. These small touches are so effective, your friends are likely to ask where you purchased your "new" items.
Instructions
Shirts and Blouses
1. Lay out each piece you'd like to alter in front of you. Mark areas on each piece where you'd like to apply rhinestones or metal studs, using a piece of chalk. For example, areas such as on the borders of collars, shoulder seams, hems, and around images and patterns are all good places to put studs.
2. Place your item flat and smooth on top of the base of your stud and rhinestone setting machine. Position a stud or rhinestone inside the empty space of the arm of the machine. Face the pointy end of the jewel stud downwards. Check to make sure you have the fabric of your clothing lined up as you want it to be.
3. Place both hands firmly on the top of the machine and press downwards, exerting enough force to push the stud or stone into the fabric, locking the pointy ends on around the fibers. Lift the arm and check your work. If you haven't firmly locked the stone or stud into the fabric, repeat this process once more.
4. Continue to insert rhinestones or metal studs into the fabric along your chalk lines.
Pants and Jeans
5. Lay all the pants and jeans that you'd like to update flat in front of you. Mark areas on the jeans where you'd like to add iron patches with chalk. Good places are the back pockets, the front pockets, along the side seams and by the cuffs.
6. Select your patches by going to a patch store and examining a wide variety: vintage, floral, music-related, foreign and political. Place your chosen patches on their chalk markings.
7. Iron the patches on over high heat. Once the patches have adhered firmly, insert a couple tight stitches around the perimeter to make sure each patch is secure.
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