How to manually hem your jeans

At first glance it seems that hemming jeans is very simple, it is enough to have a sewing machine and sharp scissors. But really budding seamstress faces a number of challenges, such as thick material, especially at the joints of the joints, which could break the needle, need to find thread for the other seams and many others. All these difficulties can be avoided if to hem your jeans by hand with special technique.

You will need

• Tailoring chalk or a thin piece of soap, sharp scissors, needle, strong thread, iron with the possibility of Stripping.

Instruction

1. Measure on the jeans the length you need. Measure carefully, because if you cut too much, fix anything it will be very hard. The perfect length is when the pant legs cover the heel to the middle. If you have to measure without shoes, leave a length to accommodate bending, so that legs touched the floor from the heels.
2. Tailor's chalk or a thin piece of soap put a line where you will cut. Lay the jeans on a flat surface like a table and make sure that the cut lines on the both legs the same. Cut lower leg on the put line, then carefully cut the lower part with the factory seam. This detail will be useful.
3. From the wrong side sew a piece of fabric with a factory firmware to a sliced leg linen seam, then treat the resulting new seam along the edges, the material began to crumble.
4. Otparit the seams first with the wrong side and then from the front. If you did everything correctly, then what you cut, and then stitched, it will be almost imperceptible. From the side it will seem that your legs ordinary factory stitching.
5. It is most convenient to hem your jeans with a straight cut. If we are talking about the flared trousers, the excess length of the factory seam will need to cut, but so gently to the side seams stayed in place and continued to coincide with the vertical stitching on the lower seam.
6. Much harder to sew manually strongly tapered jeans. If a little wrong, the fabric is in place proshiva begin to get an accordion that looks unnatural and very ugly. Attach the factory seam to the pant leg, and sweeps it around the perimeter. Where the seam will be missed, it will have to take out the side seam of the matter that remained after trimming.