Me & Mimi's Crafting Nook

Ever need your blue jeans hemmed?  The following tutorial will help you with this.

Take your blue jeans that are too long, and measure the correct length.  Pen or mark of the length that they need to be.

Now take the original hem out of the blue jeans using a seam ripper.

Cut the access leaving enough to fold over twice.

To make sewing the seams easier take a small hammer(lady’s hammer- a pretty one ha ha) and hammer the seams to kinda flatten the seams a lil. Put this on a block of wood so not mess up your table. This compressed the fabric making it easier to stitch over.

For the thread we used the following thread.

Now its time to start stitching, go slowly over the seam of the pant leg. Going slowly will take some of the pressure from the needle to keep it from breaking.  However, sometimes needles will break.

Once stitched and pressed you can hardly tell that they have been hemmed.

Top is original stitch and bottom is the hemmed pant leg (not pressed)