New Zipper for Freddies of Pinewood Jeans
I bought these jeans from Freddies of Pinewood back in 2015 when they were on sale with a known zipper flaw. The risk of a zipper malfunction didn't deter me from buying them. I just wanted to have them so bad at a good price!The zipper worked fine for a while. Then, during my trip to Colorado in 2017, it tore. Fortunately, the tear was close to the bottom of the zipper and I could stop the zipper from unhinging from the teeth on one of the sides by handsewing the tear shut with just a needle and some thread.The tear slowly got larger over time and at some point I was even wearing the jeans as they were. That means that I had to physically insert the teeth back into the zipper head after every trip to the bathroom. Of course, that didn't last long.My jeans went into hibernation for about a year. The last time it appeared on my Instagram feed was in October 2018. This year, I finally got around to inserting a new zipper for my Freddies of Pinewood jeans!
Here are the specific materials I used for this mending project:
- New zipper with gold metal teeth in the same length as original
- Dark brown jeans topstitching thread
- Navy thread in the bobbin
- Zipper foot on the machine
- Jeans sewing needle in the machine
To be honest, sewing jeans isn't easy on the home sewing machine. I am using a secondhand Husqvarna E20 with needles specific for sewing jeans and I had to physically hand-crank the machine to get the needle to go through.
Good news, I got the job done after unpick the stitches twice and broke 0 needles in the process! I'm so glad to have my jeans back. The stitching is not perfect but hey, it's functional and that's all that's important. x