How to Shorten Jeans - Two Methods

This sewing tutorial shows you how to shorten a pair of jeans two ways either by cutting off the excess fabric and losing the original hem or a 'cheat' method whereby the original hem stays in tact. Even if you're an experienced sewer we have some great tips for sewing bulky seams, which can be useful for sewing jeans and coats or bulky fabrics. The cheat method is particularly useful for children's jeans and gives you the option to lengthen the jeans again at a later date.

I'll show you how to use a bulky seam aid and will recommend the right sewing machine needles, thread and marking and measuring tools to use, you can find links to all of these and our website below.

► Sew Essential sewessential.co.uk/

► Sew Essential blog sewessential.co.uk/blog

► Prym sew and knit measuring gauge sewessential.co.uk/prym-sew-and-knit-metal-gaug…

► Chaco pen liners sewessential.co.uk/sewing-tools-and-gadgets/sew…

► Jeans needles sewessential.co.uk/sewing-machines-and-accessor…

► Bulky seam aid or humper jumper sewessential.co.uk/hemline-bulky-seam-aid

► Topstitch thread sewessential.co.uk/haberdashery/threads/top-sti…

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