How to Shorten Pants While Keeping the Original Hem (Simple Method)<

It's not always easy to find pants that fit your size perfectly. Who has never had a crush on the almost perfect jeans, but often far too long. If you have ever found yourself in this situation, know that it is possible to shorten your pants, while keeping the original hem. Find out how with this simple and practical tip.

To hem your jeans without calling a professional, without patching your pants while keeping the original hem, we suggest the following method.

Steps to Shorten Jeans Keeping the Hem

Step 1: Choose the desired length

Put on your jeans with a pair of shoes to be more precise in your measurements. Mark the part to be hemmed with a chalk.

Mark the excess fabric – Source: spm

Step 2: Pin the original hem

After marking the part to be shortened, fold the excess fabric outwards. Make sure the original hem exceeds the marked length. Then attach pins to the bottom of the jeans, along the original hem to hold it in place, and remove your jeans. Flatten the hem well by ironing it with an iron.

Pin the hem – Source: spm

Step 3: Repeat the fold on the other leg

To do this, simply superimpose the 2 legs of the jeans on a flat surface to reproduce the fold on the second leg symmetrically. Pin the hem of the second leg as well.

Pleat on both legs – Source: spm

Step 4: Sew the hem

Using a thread and needle or your sewing machine, sew a few stitches just below the pinned hem, working all the way around the lower leg.

Sew hem – Source: spm

Step 5: Unfold the hem

Now you can remove the pins and unfold your original hem. You will thus find a strip of fabric on the inside of the leg, along the bottom of the jeans. Overlap the 2 legs of the jeans to make sure that the two hems you kept are identical.

Unfold hem – Source: spm

Step 6: Final touches

Put your jeans on to make sure the measurements you took were correct. All you have to do is iron the hem to flatten it and flatten the loop of the fabric on the inside of the leg.

Iron the hem -Source: spm

Here you are shown how to sew by hand for the first time, especially if you are a beginner and do not have a sewing machine. Indeed, machine sewing is not necessarily intuitive if you are still a beginner. But with these few instructions for threading the spool, placing the bobbin, installing and changing the needle and using the presser foot, the sewing machine will have no more secrets for you!

Hand sewing tips for beginners

Equipment :

The method to follow:

First thread the thread through the needle. To do this, take a long thread and pass its end through the eye of the needle, so that the needle is in the middle and the ends of the thread are the same length. Knot the ends so you can catch the thread in the fabric when sewing.

Then prick the back of the fabric with the needle to create a hole through which your thread will pass. Pass the needle through the fabric and pull it to pull the thread through its full length.

To make a second stitch, pass the needle in the opposite direction, i.e. in the wrong side of the fabric and pull the needle again, followed by the thread. Pull the entire length of the wire until you feel resistance. The two dots you've made so far should look like a small hyphen. Now all you have to do is repeat the previous steps, making sure to line up all your stitches. When you're done sewing, tie a figure-8 knot to secure the seam. Repeat this knot 2 or 3 times if necessary.

Thus, you will be able to alter your pants and adjust their length while keeping their original hem, without going to the tailor.

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