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Tips For How To Shorten Jeans! Easy step by step method

Easy ways to shorten jeans!

The problem most have with getting jeans shortened is that they don’t look the same anymore once the original hem has been cut. Here I’ll give you the basic and easy way.

The problem most have with getting jeans shortened is that they don’t look the same anymore once the original hem has been cut. Here I’ll give you the basic and easy way.

This is the scoop. To make a jean hem look the same as when purchased and still have that professional look you have to match the top stitching thread as close as possible in color. For instance most Levis have that mustardy faded colored stitching. Actually it’s next to impossible to find the exact shade because jeans after having been sewn go through a couple of procedures of preshrinking, fading, etc. also denims are sewn with a heavier gauge of thread. With other words most of the shades of topstitching thread you see on your jeans do not exist as ready to buy thread.

 

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tip #1:

Double the thread on your bobbin (try just a small amount to make sure your sewing machine will sew with it. The older machines will happily sew away with most thicknesses, the computer sensored machines might be a bit more finicky.)

This is also gives you another bonus when trying to match the top stitching thread color a bright yellow just wont do, but if combined with a brown, dark tan, rust, or maybe even a khaki together they will give you just the right shade.

Experiment: also remember that the color of new thread still has that crispy and shiny look and might be a bit too brilliant at first but this will change slightly after the jeans have been washed a time or two. The dye still left in the jeans will also help to discolor the thread.

Tip #2:

Instead of using a regular heavy needle use a leather sewing needle in your machine. (Your fabric and notions stores sell them) This will give your machine the extra edge… These needles have a sharp ‘knife-y’ tip that will actually cut through the heavy fabric. These leather sewing needles are also called wedge tip or wedge point tip

Tip #3:

Trim the seams…Work jeans have double or triple tops stitched seams on both the side seam and inseam, fashion jeans (most of the time) just on the side seams. With your sharp and pointy scissors clip away some of the extra thickness of those seams about 1″/2.5cm up.

 

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Tip #4:

Bang, bang, bang with your most expensive fancy dancey jean hemming tool. (hamma) Okay, you’re saying what? I’m serious… One of my important sewing tools is a small hammer. When shortening jeans it comes in most handy.

( Just a quick funny story… A couple of years back I had demonstrated how to shorten a pair of jeans to one set of my evening sewing classes students… I called my hammer “my handy dandy jeans hemming tool” the next week one of my students was all upset and asked where she could find just such a tool… she had been in every sewing store in the city and no-one had ever heard of it… I couldn’t come up with an answer for a minute or two… I had the hardest time not to fall apart laughing… it was a little hammer for crying out loud… I’m proud of how I informed her that she possibly could check for a small hammer at the hardware store… In her defense the hammer I use is more then 60 years old, it came from my Dads set that I used when I was “working” with him as a small child “fixing pieces of scrap wood”. This little hammer looks quite different from others as it has a small wedge shaped metal head on a wooden handle… )

The regular jean hem is a double folded 5/8″/1.5cm. Start sewing your hem just past the inseam-

These are the steps I follow:

1. Measure 1.5″/3.75cm longer then the desired length of jeans

2. Cut

3.Match bobbin thread in color and thickness as close as possible

4.Trim seam thickness about 1″/2.5cm up (both side & inseam)

5.Roll 5/8″/1.5cm twice

6.Start sewing hem slowly just past the inseam

7.Stop sewing with your needle in the fabric every couple of inches and re-roll

8.When coming close to the side seam have it rolled and gently give it a few taps with your hammer to flatten out the seam

9.Slowly sew over seam & continue to inseam and repeat same step

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Hi, I am Haroon Rasheed, have a lot of interest in writing and also love to write and read. Mobile Themes

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