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With a few basic sewing skills, you can replace the elastic waist band of your favorite sleep pants or loungers. By adding elastic to a pair of sleep pants, you are able to obtain a different fit than the manufacture provides. This guide works on pants where the elastic is inside of the waistband; this is called a casing.
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Measure your waist by wrapping the cloth measuring tape around your body about two inches above your hip bones. Make sure the tape lays flat against your body.
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Measure the elastic to waist measurement plus one more inch to ensure room to sew. Mark the elastic for cutting.
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Cut the elastic. Cut on the side away from your measured length.
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At the back of the waistband, use the seam ripper to break the threads of the waistband to create an opening.
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Through the opening, pull out any ribbon or old elastic your are replacing.
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Tape the elastic to the end of a pencil or another straight object to guide the elastic.
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Carefully insert the pencil and elastic into the casing through the opening you made.
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Pin the back edge of the elastic to the sleep pants. This stops the entire elastic piece from going through the waistband.
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Push the entire length of the pencil into the casing until the elastic starts going through the casing.
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Continue to pull gently, until the pencil and elastic are out of the other side of the opening where you started.
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Remove the pencil and tape from the elastic.
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Overlap both ends of the elastic the extra inch you included for sewing. Secure with two pins.
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Using thread and a needle to sew the elastic together.
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Before sewing the seams closed, distribute any bunched fabric.
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Remove bunched fabric by: pulling your hands apart gently and stretch the elastic to the full size of the cloth waistband.
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Stabilize elastic from moving by stitching at the vertical seams. Add one or two stitches at the seams to hold the elastic from moving within the casing.
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Sew the opening you made closed.
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Enjoy your newly fitted sleep pants.
Enjoy your newly fitted sleep pants.
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