Burda Style For people who sew

Everybody needs to hem their jeans. And if you are the seamstress/seam-mister in your group of friends or family, you are the first one to know! Learn how to hem their jeans perfectly, and still maintain the jeans original hem, so they don't look hemmed!

Technique Materials

Sewing machine, matching thread, pins

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18 Comments

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  May 12, 2009, 05.12 PMby hayley28

  Great idea, definitely worth trying. I always end up cutting the jeans and then have issues with fraying, you may have just solved all my problems :)
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  Apr 22, 2008, 12.30 PMby hans1247

  I will be trying this soon…
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  Apr 7, 2008, 08.14 AMby admin

  I just had to have these awesome wide leg jeans. However, they were four inches too long. I used this method and it was so easy. Thanks for posting this.
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  Apr 2, 2008, 10.33 AMby shirliza

  The best thing is to cut the left fabric.
  There is another way to shorten jeans with original jeans hem which leaves no fabric.
  Look at http://www.hobbyschneiderin.net/portal/showthread.php?t=1008"

  It´s a page in German, but with lots of pictures.

  I tried it, it works well.
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  Mar 1, 2008, 07.51 PMby whimsykid

  Thanks a lot for this! It was really helpful for the new jeans I got on sale that were way too long. The only minor problem I had was that the side seams of the legs of jeans were way too thick to sew over, but I just slipstitched the small opening by hand.
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  Feb 20, 2008, 11.46 AMby BurdaStyle

  If you have a lot of extra fabric that gets tucked up, you can trim it off from the inside.
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  Feb 19, 2008, 11.20 AMby admin

  I wonder if this will work with the slacks that I bought yesterday.
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  Feb 17, 2008, 09.42 AMby clstayner

  Wonderful! I recently hemmed a pair of jeans that I know could have been done better and with a more simple idea. This quick instruction is perfect for my ascetic dilemma.
  Thanks
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  Feb 15, 2008, 08.45 PMby admin

  This looks great but what do I do with all the extra fabric? My legs are really short and there is always a lot of fabric left over.
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  Feb 15, 2008, 07.53 AMby admin

  That is totally easier than how I’ve been doing it, and looks better too! My hemmed jeans always look like, well, hemmed jeans. You can’t even tell on these! Awesome.
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  Feb 9, 2008, 05.15 PMby mommalook05

  wow, i never would have thought of doing it this way,what a great idea!
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  Feb 9, 2008, 08.26 AMby pinkhibiscus

  that’s cool, great idea
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  Feb 8, 2008, 06.46 PMby Linda1945

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  What a great idea.thankyou.
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  Feb 4, 2008, 12.29 PMby admin

  I have used this method, and love it, too. Two differences I do (if I read the how to right)— usually the topstitch thread from the original sewing, as it were, is a color/weight I can’t match, so I make the fold just up from the original hem, then stitch on the inside, and top stitch in the ditch on the top around the hem. I also tacking up the fold in the seamlines by stitching in the ditch along both vertical seams.
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  Feb 4, 2008, 08.14 AMby justelaite

  this is just great! thanks for this simple but genial idea!
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  Feb 3, 2008, 08.38 PMby PileLuki

  I just pulled several pairs of my jeans from my closet and I haven’t begun to hem them yet. I’m so glad I didn’t; now I can try your blind hemming method, thanks!
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  Feb 3, 2008, 11.13 AMby mnau

  great idea, thank you
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  Feb 2, 2008, 10.14 AMby Rosalia856

  I have hemmed many many jeans,but you made this method so much easier. Thank You for your info.