Make Some Pocket Extenders for Your Pants
So I donāt know about you, but Iām often frustrated by the ridiculous smallness of girlsā pockets. At a bare minimum, I need to be able to shove my cellphone in there - come on, pants companies! So what I started doing was making myself pocket extenders. Iāve done this several times, for pants and shorts. Itās great.
I just got this pair of jeans, so I thought Iād show you how to do it. I kind of feel like it just hasnāt occurred to some of you that this is an option, so maybe now it will. All you need is your pants, some fabric (I just took a random piece from a scrap bin), a needle, and some thread (thread doesnāt even need to match the fabric since literally no one will see it).
See? Ridiculous. Like, half a cellphone, or only 2.5ā³. Useless.
Ā So turn those inside out to expose the pockets.
Figure out how big you want your pockets to actually be. I kinda go by whatever looks like might be right. I didnāt really measure them. Fold the fabric in half, so you have a pocket, and then fold it in half again so you can have two equal ones.
Try to get the edges to line up enough, pin it in place, then sew up the sides! Are your stitches crazy uneven and wonky looking? Doesnāt matter; nobodyās going to see it. These are in the inside of your pants. The only thing that matters is that it holds up. So I double-did the corners, since those tend to get the most stress.
Cut open the bottom of the existing pockets.
Pin it in place, then sew around, joining the new pocket to the old pocket. I did this by keeping my hand on the inside, so I wouldnāt accidentally sew through the other side. Again, I reinforced the corners, and didnāt worry about what it actually looks like. Then I turned it in side out to make sure the inside was all joined properly.
Yay all done! And the pockets are so much bigger now!
Whaaaat I can fit my entire phone and entire hand and probably something else now, are girlsā pockets even allowed to do that?! Heck yeah they are.
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