Hemming jeans hack

Learn how to hem jeans with your sewing machine and reusing the original hem. Shorten your denim pants and keep the same look!

Shorten your own jeans at home and save money. This tutorial shows you how to keep the original hem when shortening jeans just like a professional tailor.

Hemming Jeans the Easy Way: I can't even begin to tell you how many needles I've broken while trying to hem jeans. At one point I was going to don safety glasses to protect my eyes from flying needles! But no more! I thought there has to be a better way and today I will show y…

I just bought a pair of pants that I LOVE...but, they are way too long. I thought they'd be OK with shoes and folded up a bit. But they were...

Learn how to hem jeans like a pro while preserving the original, faded hem with this step-by-step sewing tutorial.

The Backstory I am short. All the jeans I buy are too long for me. But I sew. So I thought I could cut off the excess length and rehem the ...

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Missy Luukkonen on Instagram: "Calling anyone who’s bought the perfect jeans only to find that the length isn’t quite right….or if you’re a short girl like me they are usually 5” too long! We all know that when you hem jeans the traditional way, the look like they have been hemmed. The way to avoid that is to keep the original hem. Here is how to do just that: Put them on and cuff them up to your desired length. Stand up straight and put on some shoes to make sure you like where they…

If you just turn up a simple hem on jeans as you would do on a skirt, it never looks right. So here’s my quick and easy hack to hem your jeans and keep the original hem intact.

While at a sewing class last week, I commented to the quilter next to me, that on my list of things to do was hemming jeans. She and then others jumped in, that they feared doing jeans on their sewing machines because of the thick seams. So I said I'd show them how I do it. Here is my quick way for hemming jeans. I've tried many ways, and have been using this method for the past 10 years. Beware this is a long post... Simple technique, but many pictures. First set up your sewing machine to…