Outline

1. Selecting Your Jeans
2. Prepping Your Jeans
3. Embroidering the Design
4. Finishing Up

1.Selecting Your Jeans

Any pair of jeans will do, but for this tutorial, I've chosen a plain pair. The goal is to embroider a design on the outer leg, and if you're wondering how to do that with a flatbed machine without tangling up the jeans, keep reading!

2.Prepping Your Jeans

• Turning Inside Out:

  Start by turning your jeans inside out. This will help in ensuring the outer part of the jeans remains smooth and flat for the embroidery process.

• Opening the Seam:

  This might sound a bit daunting, but trust me, it's worth it. Using a pair of sharp scissors or a seam ripper, carefully open the inside seam of the jeans. This will allow you to lay the jeans flat. Remember, a good seam ripper or trimming scissors will be your best friend here. And yes, after embroidering, you'll need to sew the seam back. So, ensure you have a sewing machine or serger handy.

3.Embroidering the Design

• Stabilizing:

  Place a cutaway stabilizer on your Maggieframe. The stabilizer ensures the design remains intact and doesn't get distorted.

• Positioning the Jeans:

  Lay the jeans over the frame, ensuring it's straight. Use the seam line as a guide to center the design. Adjust as needed.

• Hoop Adjustments:

  Depending on the thickness of your denim, you might need to loosen the bottom screw of your Maggieframe. Once the jeans are in place, tighten it to ensure the fabric is smooth and taut.

• Embroidering:

  Head over to your embroidery machine, select your design, and start embroidering. For this tutorial, I used the Brother Luminaire and chose a design that fit perfectly within the 6x8 frame. Remember to adjust the design's position based on where you want it on the jeans.

4.Finishing Up

Once the embroidery is complete, remove the jeans from the Maggieframe and trim away any excess stabilizer. If you're done embroidering, turn the jeans inside out and sew the opened seam. Use pins for guidance and sew it back just as it was originally, with two straight stitches. If your jeans were surged, use a serger for a clean finish.