How to Sew Zigzag Patterns - Repair a broken belt loop on jeans with zigzag stitch techniques

On behalf of expertvillage.com, I am Jennifer with A Perfect Fit Alterations. We’re located in Burleson, Texas. Our phone number is 817-447-3522. We’re going to take an old pair of jeans, which this happens to be my husband’s old pair of jeans, and he his ripped the belt loop off. So we’re going to repair this hole and then we’re going to put the belt loop back on. Now I have cut a piece, a small piece, of denim. We’re not going to use any glue or anything; we’re just going to put this underneath the hole and we’re totally going to use the zigzag stitch to fix that hole. Okay, get your fabric. It’s under the hole. Now if you look at the fabric here, you have a grain, a fabric going here you have little ridges in the jeans. If you follow the little ridges in the jeans, you can almost make the hole invisible. Choose your thread to make sure you have a pretty close color, and you’re going to use an extremely small zigzag stitch; it’s just barely zigzagging. Make sure you get the edges, because this is a place on these jeans where he’s ripped his belt loop out because he’s pulling it on using the belt loop to pull the pants on, so you want to make sure that it really gets in there tight. Go all the way to the edges, back and forth, and you can trim that excess piece of fabric that we have on the back; after you’ve fixed your hole we’re going to trim that away. We’ve repaired our hole, a little bit more on the edge. See how we got a little bit sticking out there. We want to go a little bit more on the edge, cause like we said this is the stress point on these jeans, and we want to make sure that we get that fixed. Now don’t worry about this on the back yet; we’re going to trim that away in a minute. Now we’re going to use a wide zigzag stitch and we’re going to put that belt loop right back on, put it right over the hole, turn your stitch length to zero and the width as wide as it’ll go, and you’re just going to go back and forth, back and forth, back and forth and repair that belt loop. Now on the back here we still got some extra fabric hanging off, so just take your scissors and trim the fabric off and you’ve repaired the belt loop.