When you bend your knees as you rip, you’re elevating your shins.

How to rip your jeans at the knee. Lay your pants on a table and cut the first leg following the traces made in the previous step. If you want, you can fray the edges using a nail file or sandpaper. This causes your shins to become slightly more powerful than your knees.

Use sandpaper to wear away some of the blue threads and then use tweezers to rip the rest out, leaving only white threads in the hole. If you want the look but. Pull a few wefts of thread over the holes you have just made.

Then remove the jeans and lay them. For ripped knees, first put on your chosen jeans and mark with a pen or pencil where the fold of your knee is. You can cut your jeans anywhere.

If you want the more “stringy” knee rip, use mix of sandpaper and ripping the denim with scissors or a blade to pull the threads out. To add further detailing to your ripped jeans and create a distressed look, use sandpaper and tweezers to focus on specific areas. Cut directly across and through the material and take the tweezers.

I hope you enjoyed this video. Please like and subscribe for more videos! Open a safety pin and use the sharp end to carefully unravel the denim at the knee.

Double check that you have the right point by folding. You’ll want to do is try on your jeans and use a marker or pen to mark where you want to cut them. Mark where you want to cut your jeans.