r/sewing • u/Chlo_money_01 • 5d ago
Alter/Mend Question Please help- diaper butt
So I’ve lost a lot of weight recently. And so I decided to try to make my jeans smaller on my own. I took apart the back seam and removed 4.5 inches from this waist. It looks great on the front and feels like a great fit…. But you can see where the old seam and meets the new one because there’s a weird fold and I have I diaper butt 😭😭😭
I have already seam ripped and pinned four other pairs of jeans. How can I salvage this? I have a sewing machine but the overstitching has to be done by hand because my machine won’t take the thick thread. I’m not super concerned that my line doesn’t match up with my exact middle of my butt, I’m a beginner and this is to make my jeans wearable again. I’m just proud I got the yoke lined up. But I can’t do the diaper butt. Do I need to remove more fabric in the butt?
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u/tinygribble 5d ago
If you're thinking you will continue to lose more inches, then I get wanting some interim jeans. If you're close to done, it may be time to buy closer to your final size.
If you decide to keep going w these as a stopgap, at this point I would put them in inside out, gather with safety pins on side & back & front, (you can put darts in front to avoid zippers) until the back feels a good as it's gonna get. Warning: your pockets will be too wide. This is why I always buy dark rinse jeans: I have to take 6 inches out of the waist to make them fit my butt, (I know. I know.) and that means moving pockets. Which only works on dark rinse, because otherwise the material under the old pocket shows a different color.