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| First things first, rip out the zipper as close to the existing seams as possible. |
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| Since, I was cutting the legs off I cut a piece off for my new button fly the same width and length of where the zipper was before removing it. |
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| After stitching up the sides, flip it to the right sides out. |
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| I set it in place to determine where I wanted the buttons and button holes. |
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| Serge up the open side, and sew your button holes. Not going to lie I had to look up the instructions and use a Spanish book to remember how to do these because I cannot find my English instruction manual. Thank you, Google Translate app! |
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| I then laid out the buttons so I could mark where I needed them to be sewn on. Note: sew them closer to the seam where the zipper was or your pants will look "unzipped" even though they are buttoned shut. I ended up removing the buttons to redo this. |
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| Pin the new fly in place and sew on jeans. I ended up making the fly wide enough to where I just followed along the existing seams with gold thread to not make any new thread marks. |
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| Sew your buttons on, either by hand or machine. I recommend using a machine; but, then again I hate hand sewing. You can use the same metal buttons that most jeans have. I chose plastic buttons because I already had them and they were less expensive than the metal ones. Note: this is before I moved the buttons closer to the existing zipper seam. |
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| When all is said and done, this is what they will look like buttoned. |
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| Proud that my on a whim sew job actually worked better than I imagined. This is actually still before I moved the buttons closer to the existing zipper seam as you can tell they don't look closed as well as I had hoped; but, I assure you that they do after moving the buttons. |
