Great tutorial! I didnt have a sewing machine, so I hand sewed them with VERY limited experience, yet they look almost perfect! I didn't even have to worry about correcting the inseam. I used 2 needles (1 to sew, another to act as a pin), craft scissors, a white prismacolor pencil to mark my lines, and thread from a basic sewing kit we had in the house.
Wow, I used to only purchase items that fit me perfectly at thrift stores, leaving with very few pieces (if any) and retreating back to the department stores for the bulk of my clothes... but with all of these great alteration videos, I feel like I could maybe go completely second-hand!!!
WOW! This is a great tutorial! I have been sewing for 65 years and would never have thought to hem jeans this way. You have done such a great, neat job! I am going to try this technique on a few pairs of flared dark jeans I scored at the Goodwill. They are at least 4-5 inches too long. Wish me luck! But I don't have a zipper foot. (And I think Pepper is darling and oh SO helpful, LOL.)
Thank you so much for the tutorial! I'm trying on flare jeans that I ordered online and really not wanting to take them to a tailor as I have in the past. I don't want to give up the cute wide hem on the bottom, so this is the perfect solution. Your instructions are so clear that I feel confident that I can do this!
Genius!! I'm a senior widow and only 5'2" so I have to shorten all my pants. I so appreciate your showing how to do this so much easier. Your cat was awesome trying to help you. My helper is a 7 year old puppy pitsky named Amazing Grace she weighs in about 80 pounds and is taller than me 😯. I make quilts mostly so thank you and God bless you and Pepper too. 👑🙏💞✝️🐾🕯🕯🕯🕯♾
Wow, thank you for this tutorial DD brought home flared jeans long enough for a baby giraffe for her little shortstack self. This saved the day for mom!
this is the most through, thought out and careful tutorial i’ve watched on the matter!! i hem every pair of trousers i own because of how short i am and i’ve always been scared of keeping original hems, especially on flared jeans- but this video gave me the confidence to try and i’m so satisfied with the result, i never thought of opening up the original hem to hide the unfinished seams, that’s genius! thank you
I have watched a lot of videos on taking jeans up using original hem. The results you achieved are the best I have seen. Your explanations are great. Thanks
thanks - been dreading doing some bell bottomed jeans for my daughter - now I know how to deal with the seam differential, much appreciated. You have a lovely not to fast well modulated voice for easy listening too :-)
Thank you for this great video -I just managed to take up my daughter's flare jeans by 4 inches, and I'm really pleased with how neat they look. I like how you show which way round everything has to be, as I always seem to have pins in the wrong places!! Thanks again
Hi! My name is Lydia also! Always fun to meet another🤗. I too enjoy sewing, since I was 9 years old. Anyway, I love your channel. You're instructions are wonderful. Easy to follow and understand. And kitty had to help also. Keep up the good work Lydia!!! Blessings to you!
I love how you showed each step and sped up the actual sewing parts. I did my wide leg jeans all wrong, not factoring in the excess fabric when shortening . Mine were 4 inches too long to start. The extra fabric was crazy. I like this method, should have watched you first! Now I have to rip everything apart 😢. Thanks for posting!!
This was perfect thank you! I've seen other videos and they don't seem to trim down the excess but I need to remove 2-3 inches so thanks for showing me how!
Amazing video, thank you! I've used other jeans shortening videos, but yours is really great because it shows us how to hide the excess fabric in the hem. Brilliant method! Many thanks! 🥰
Thank you Lydia. This is a very good video. I saw another one that showed nothing but all the steps with music; not explanation. So I couldn't figure out what she meant by the original hem, or WHY I would want to keep the original hem. And I was going to have to repeat the video many times to follow what she was doing because it was so fast. You, on the other hand, showed the steps slowly enough to follow, and explained the reason for every step. I'm very encouraged, thank you! Something else I really liked was that you quickly got to work showing what to do, starting the video with just enough small talk to be friendly, but didn't waste a lot of time going on and on with irrelevant conversation like a lot of other video makers do.
Other methods are good, but, they leave a huge amount of cloth,some 3 to 4 inches of unwanted fold that will not be required ever. In your method ,the thread is hidden.
Lydia Naomi, thank you immensely for this video. I'm a complete beginner, but by following along with your video I totally nailed a large flare jeans hem job!!!! Thank you so much!!!
Thank you for making this tutorial. I followed your instructions and successfully hemmed a pair of flared jeans! Had to hem 9cm and had to decrease the original hem by 3 inches to fit higher up the pant leg. Don't have a serger and didn't have matching orange "jeans" thread, so I just zig zag stitched the inside hem and cut it close. Don't have any fabric glue either....hopefully won't fray too much....
Thank you so much for your video, I fixed my daughter’s flare jeans and they came out better than I expected. I have a high school level seamstress expertise but this video helped me so much. I only wish I had allowed maybe an inch of instead of half an inch from the original helm before I cut. , but other than that Whoo hoo, it worked
I am very impressed by this young lady's skill! This was not an easy effort to make the length a bit shorter especially flares! I used to have to tailor all my slacks for the opposite reason--really skinny and tall--make 'em longer. Still, I'm impressed. Love the animated little black kitty too!
They look so good, thanks so much :) And I found seam ripping the original seam first made it really easy to get right into the ditch with my big sewing machine foot 👏
I just shorten some jeans and had no idea to do it this way. But, I am not unhappy with my project yours is just the correct way. Thanks for sharing your talent.
It never occurred to me that you could reuse the original hem. This is not what I was searching for, but it’s amazing. Cute cat too. Not entirely sure I care enough though. 😂
Thank you so much, I’m 5’3 but a size ten in the uk meaning I’m technically petite but a lot of stores either don’t carry jeans that fit me or if they do they’re painfully long . I saw a pair in h and m today that I fell in love with and might end up getting and hemming myself :))
Great video Lydia! Thank you. I had to take 4" off the bottoms of my flared jeans so the difference in width was a lot. I accidentally found out by a mistake when pinning the original seam to the pants that I forgot to divide the number in half and had sewn the inside seam in too far (luckily, I didn't cut off the excess yet), so I ripped those stitches out and it was so much easier to sew since it was not attached to the pants anymore. So, you can cut the original seam off 1/2" above the hem and then sew.
I love how every step is explained ahead of time, and then shown. But I am traumatized by others on UA-cam just explaining the step and completing it off camera, so I had a mini panic attack every time 😂 This is an excellent video, thank you so much! 🫶🏼
The explanation & theory was brilliant - however something went wrong somewhere (my maths possibly!) and my cut off hem section was too small for the trousers - had to add a section and so it doesn't look as neat as I hoped! Also, one of my jeans side seams was super thick with double vertical stitching, which I couldn't unpick and was hard to sew over. But I will definitely try the method again as I have short legs & always have to alter my jeans. Thanks
Really interesting and cool! I'm going to try to rehem a pair of really cute brown corduroy pants that I thrifted that are PERFECT, they're just a bit too long
This video is so helpful! You used simpler terms hehe love it. But if I can know, I have another flared pants but not jeans, can this technique be used on other types of fabric too? Sorry if this question sounds silly 😓
Not at all silly :) absolutely you can use this method on anything really. The point is to keep the original character of the hem so if you want that on another type of pant you can do it :)
This is SO much easier than how I normally do it oh my gosh. I usually cut off the entire bottom and shorten it to fit the higher area, why did I not think of just tapering it?? 😭
Bought my first 2 pair of pants that are flared, but I’m short so of course they are to long! I think I’m gonna use some other pair of old pants as practice pants before I start with my new pair to make them a bit shorter 😅
@@LydiaNaomi as she should be! thank you for letting her embrace her true nature and live life to her fullest and happiest 🙂😊, reading that made me happy. wishing the best out of life, health and safety for you and Pepper 🐈⬛🖤💕 and happy almost halloween 👻🎃🐈⬛
Thank you for such a clear tutorial! I've just bought a pair of flared cords that are unfortunately a bit too long. They're such a nice colour that I don't want to return them. Do you think I could turn them up or would the cord fabric match up weirdly in a way that doesn't happen with denim?
Your other tutorial was fantastic but my brain was like beep bop bop.. I’m tracking with this one much better lol Thank you for this video!! I appreciate it so much
@@LydiaNaomi yea sis u r legend I actually learnt from ur one year old video ❤️❤️❤️ can u plz make a video on how can we easily size down our jeans with hand sewing needles
Hello
What if i don't make the hem smaller? Will it still be fine? 😊
Can I have you fix a pair of jeans for me? I have not found a tailor that has been able to do an original hem like you!
I love that she explained a basic term like seam since there are no pre-reqs at UA-cam University.
Haha so true! I gotta remember to explain more terms!!! Thanks!
I didn't realise hemming pants would be so artistic. And the cat was following everything like an apprentice. Great video.
That last step on the hems tucking it in and sewing it under is genius. Really makes the difference.
Great tutorial! I didnt have a sewing machine, so I hand sewed them with VERY limited experience, yet they look almost perfect! I didn't even have to worry about correcting the inseam.
I used 2 needles (1 to sew, another to act as a pin), craft scissors, a white prismacolor pencil to mark my lines, and thread from a basic sewing kit we had in the house.
Go YOU! That is awesome! I applaud resourcefulness!
Wow, I used to only purchase items that fit me perfectly at thrift stores, leaving with very few pieces (if any) and retreating back to the department stores for the bulk of my clothes... but with all of these great alteration videos, I feel like I could maybe go completely second-hand!!!
Oh my goodness! That makes me feel so happy for you!! You'll save money and have unique and special pieces :D
@@LydiaNaomi I have a cool suggestion for you.
WOW! This is a great tutorial! I have been sewing for 65 years and would never have thought to hem jeans this way. You have done such a great, neat job! I am going to try this technique on a few pairs of flared dark jeans I scored at the Goodwill. They are at least 4-5 inches too long. Wish me luck! But I don't have a zipper foot. (And I think Pepper is darling and oh SO helpful, LOL.)
This is so cool! I’ve always been so sad to lose the original hem on my jeans 😭 thank you for sharing!!!
Happy to help!
Thank you so much for the tutorial! I'm trying on flare jeans that I ordered online and really not wanting to take them to a tailor as I have in the past. I don't want to give up the cute wide hem on the bottom, so this is the perfect solution. Your instructions are so clear that I feel confident that I can do this!
You most certainly can do it!! Have fun!!
How did it turn out?
Genius!! I'm a senior widow and only 5'2" so I have to shorten all my pants. I so appreciate your showing how to do this so much easier. Your cat was awesome trying to help you. My helper is a 7 year old puppy pitsky named Amazing Grace she weighs in about 80 pounds and is taller than me 😯. I make quilts mostly so thank you and God bless you and Pepper too. 👑🙏💞✝️🐾🕯🕯🕯🕯♾
your so sweet and you weren't even talking to me! God bless you, too!! your wonderful😘❤️
@@coluchi that's the best thing I've heard since my husband went home to Jesus
👑🙏🏻💞✝️🐾🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯
@@maxinemcelroy8902 aww im so sorry for your loss. i hope hes happy there❤️
Wow, thank you for this tutorial DD brought home flared jeans long enough for a baby giraffe for her little shortstack self. This saved the day for mom!
this is the most through, thought out and careful tutorial i’ve watched on the matter!! i hem every pair of trousers i own because of how short i am and i’ve always been scared of keeping original hems, especially on flared jeans- but this video gave me the confidence to try and i’m so satisfied with the result, i never thought of opening up the original hem to hide the unfinished seams, that’s genius! thank you
4'11 girls worldwide thank you
Never ever thought of cutting hem off and resewing using original hem. . YOU ARE A GENIUS..LOL and I love your sweet kitty
So glad you like it! It's an age old tailoring trick called the Euro Hem that didn't originate with me!
But you put it on for all of us that didn't know..ty for that
Beautiful finish, encasing the raw edges within the hem fold. Excellent instruction, thank you.
I have watched a lot of videos on taking jeans up using original hem. The results you achieved are the best I have seen. Your explanations are great. Thanks
Wow, thank you!
thanks - been dreading doing some bell bottomed jeans for my daughter - now I know how to deal with the seam differential, much appreciated. You have a lovely not to fast well modulated voice for easy listening too :-)
I totally understand that dread 😅 and I am so glad I helped reduce or elimnate it!!!
@@LydiaNaomi all done and turned out they were just wide leg in the end - so easy peasy - lol
I don't know how to thank you.. You helped me so much.. Love you
Thank you for this great video -I just managed to take up my daughter's flare jeans by 4 inches, and I'm really pleased with how neat they look. I like how you show which way round everything has to be, as I always seem to have pins in the wrong places!! Thanks again
This was so helpful! Well explained and I could see what you were doing clearly. Pepper was a cute addition!
First video that explained this as easy to follow and understand! Saving this forever as reference! Thank you 🤩
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you SO MUCH for this tutorial! I have to do this to my daughter's wide leg pants and this step by step is very thorough!!
Hi! My name is Lydia also! Always fun to meet another🤗. I too enjoy sewing, since I was 9 years old. Anyway, I love your channel. You're instructions are wonderful. Easy to follow and understand. And kitty had to help also. Keep up the good work Lydia!!! Blessings to you!
I love how you showed each step and sped up the actual sewing parts. I did my wide leg jeans all wrong, not factoring in the excess fabric when shortening . Mine were 4 inches too long to start. The extra fabric was crazy. I like this method, should have watched you first! Now I have to rip everything apart 😢. Thanks for posting!!
I really like your method best out of numerous others I've watched. Thank you for making it so easy!! 😊
Yay so glad to help!!
This was perfect thank you! I've seen other videos and they don't seem to trim down the excess but I need to remove 2-3 inches so thanks for showing me how!
Love this video always come back to it and have used it on over 10 pants like boot cut and flared! Thank you so much 💗🤗
Excellent video showing this this technique. The measuring is what gets me. Thank you.
Fantastic. So helpful. Couldn't have done it without you. Thank you
Amazing video, thank you! I've used other jeans shortening videos, but yours is really great because it shows us how to hide the excess fabric in the hem. Brilliant method! Many thanks! 🥰
So glad you enjoyed it!
Sooo helpful! I nailed my hemming job thanks to you. THANK YOU!
Yaaay! Thats so awesome to hear!
Pepper is so lovely! Love your craftsmanship 🤗
Thank you Marwa!
Great tutorial!!! I’ve been looking for this video for a flared pair of pants. Thank you.m
I am so happy you found my video!!
Thank you Lydia. This is a very good video. I saw another one that showed nothing but all the steps with music; not explanation. So I couldn't figure out what she meant by the original hem, or WHY I would want to keep the original hem. And I was going to have to repeat the video many times to follow what she was doing because it was so fast. You, on the other hand, showed the steps slowly enough to follow, and explained the reason for every step. I'm very encouraged, thank you!
Something else I really liked was that you quickly got to work showing what to do, starting the video with just enough small talk to be friendly, but didn't waste a lot of time going on and on with irrelevant conversation like a lot of other video makers do.
I appreciate your comment 💓💓
This is the BEST METHOD I have seen so far.
that's great to hear! THank you!
Other methods are good, but, they leave a huge amount of cloth,some 3 to 4 inches of unwanted fold that will not be required ever.
In your method ,the thread is hidden.
Lydia Naomi, thank you immensely for this video. I'm a complete beginner, but by following along with your video I totally nailed a large flare jeans hem job!!!! Thank you so much!!!
Thank you for making this tutorial. I followed your instructions and successfully hemmed a pair of flared jeans! Had to hem 9cm and had to decrease the original hem by 3 inches to fit higher up the pant leg. Don't have a serger and didn't have matching orange "jeans" thread, so I just zig zag stitched the inside hem and cut it close. Don't have any fabric glue either....hopefully won't fray too much....
Great job!! I am so glad you enjoyed the tutorial and also did the alteration!
Thank you so much for your video, I fixed my daughter’s flare jeans and they came out better than I expected. I have a high school level seamstress expertise but this video helped me so much. I only wish I had allowed maybe an inch of instead of half an inch from the original helm before I cut. , but other than that Whoo hoo, it worked
That is so great! I am so glad this helped you! And thanks for the tip, maybe others would like to cut it at 1 inch as well 🌸
Madam, you are masterful and so freaking talented. I understood about 15% of this. I think I'll practice with some old jeans first.
Thank you so much!!! I just hemmed my first pair of pants and they turned out great!
Lydia, that was an excellent instruction. You are a gifted teacher.
Wow thanks so much!
Love this!! Great job Lydia 😍🔥
Thanks sis 🥰
What a professional finish! Very impressive! Thank you for the tutorial!
I am very impressed by this young lady's skill! This was not an easy effort to make the length a bit shorter especially flares! I used to have to tailor all my slacks for the opposite reason--really skinny and tall--make 'em longer. Still, I'm impressed. Love the animated little black kitty too!
thank you so kindly!
thank you for this great tutorial, i'm really new to sewing and this was really easy to follow along, the result is great! thanks!❤
Thank you so much! This is the tutorial I've been needing!
They look so good, thanks so much :)
And I found seam ripping the original seam first made it really easy to get right into the ditch with my big sewing machine foot 👏
I followed step by step and I am happy with the results! Thank you!
Great job Lydia; very articulate 👌
I just shorten some jeans and had no idea to do it this way. But, I am not unhappy with my project yours is just the correct way. Thanks for sharing your talent.
Thank you Donna, you can definitely do it different ways, I just love the look of the original hem! Thank you so much for watching!
You're amazing!!! I love your tutorials. Very easy to understand.
Glad you like them!
Thanks so much for this video. I have a pair of flare jeans that also, like yours, are too long.
Love the kitty, too❤
Thanks for watching!
Awesome job!
Thanks!
Thank you! This is so well explained. And I love how they turned out.
This is all very much new to me but this video was really helpful!!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you I have two pairs to work on.... one is mine and the other is my friend's. Can't wait to do this 🤗
It never occurred to me that you could reuse the original hem. This is not what I was searching for, but it’s amazing. Cute cat too. Not entirely sure I care enough though. 😂
Glad you like it!
Thank you so much, I’m 5’3 but a size ten in the uk meaning I’m technically petite but a lot of stores either don’t carry jeans that fit me or if they do they’re painfully long . I saw a pair in h and m today that I fell in love with and might end up getting and hemming myself :))
Great video Lydia! Thank you. I had to take 4" off the bottoms of my flared jeans so the difference in width was a lot. I accidentally found out by a mistake when pinning the original seam to the pants that I forgot to divide the number in half and had sewn the inside seam in too far (luckily, I didn't cut off the excess yet), so I ripped those stitches out and it was so much easier to sew since it was not attached to the pants anymore. So, you can cut the original seam off 1/2" above the hem and then sew.
I love how every step is explained ahead of time, and then shown. But I am traumatized by others on UA-cam just explaining the step and completing it off camera, so I had a mini panic attack every time 😂 This is an excellent video, thank you so much! 🫶🏼
Your alterations look great. Must watch vid again and yet this. TFS!
Thanks so much!
omg i just found u and i love how u explain things!! love ur personality too & ur kitty hehe. subscribed!!
Thank you so much!!
That kitty is so cute!
Hey love your video on how you alter flared jeans! The finished product looks amazing
Thank you I’m so happy you enjoyed it Dolores!
Thank you so much!! this tutorial gave me the confidence to try it myself, i did it!! it worked!! and now i can wear my new favorite jeans :D woohoo!
Congratualtions!
Thank you for this! YOur jean hemming vids are amazing, super easy to follow -- BIG thumbs up!
You're so welcome!
I Love the idea of hiding the leftover material by inserting in the original hem. - I will do that next time!!! Thanks for this!
Glad it was helpful!
The explanation & theory was brilliant - however something went wrong somewhere (my maths possibly!) and my cut off hem section was too small for the trousers - had to add a section and so it doesn't look as neat as I hoped! Also, one of my jeans side seams was super thick with double vertical stitching, which I couldn't unpick and was hard to sew over. But I will definitely try the method again as I have short legs & always have to alter my jeans. Thanks
Perfectly done explanation. 👍🏻
Really interesting and cool! I'm going to try to rehem a pair of really cute brown corduroy pants that I thrifted that are PERFECT, they're just a bit too long
Sounds awesome! Have fun!
This video is so helpful! You used simpler terms hehe love it. But if I can know, I have another flared pants but not jeans, can this technique be used on other types of fabric too?
Sorry if this question sounds silly 😓
Not at all silly :) absolutely you can use this method on anything really. The point is to keep the original character of the hem so if you want that on another type of pant you can do it :)
Thank you! Very clear instructions! Great video!
Excellent tutorial!
Omg. Thank you so so much. I needed this tutorial ❤
Thanks for sharing! My original hem is 1 inch, do I still use 1/2 in seam when adding the hem back on? Thanks 🙏
I didn't know that's how I was supposed to use the seam ripper :O That's so much faster...
This is SO much easier than how I normally do it oh my gosh. I usually cut off the entire bottom and shorten it to fit the higher area, why did I not think of just tapering it?? 😭
Thank you for your excellent sharing and it really help me a lot. Thank you.
Bought my first 2 pair of pants that are flared, but I’m short so of course they are to long! I think I’m gonna use some other pair of old pants as practice pants before I start with my new pair to make them a bit shorter 😅
Is that a Left or Right zipper foot? Thank you ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
they’re so cute!!!!! you did that girl. and Pepper is cute asf!! i love black cats
Thank you!! me too I love black cats, Pepper is super wild, she loves to be outside all day and I love her!
@@LydiaNaomi as she should be! thank you for letting her embrace her true nature and live life to her fullest and happiest 🙂😊, reading that made me happy.
wishing the best out of life, health and safety for you and Pepper 🐈⬛🖤💕
and happy almost halloween 👻🎃🐈⬛
AMAZING!!
Thank you Lydia
Glad you like it!
Thank you for such a clear tutorial! I've just bought a pair of flared cords that are unfortunately a bit too long. They're such a nice colour that I don't want to return them. Do you think I could turn them up or would the cord fabric match up weirdly in a way that doesn't happen with denim?
I think you could just turn them up instead of using the original hem, unless you want that natural character or the hem :)
@@LydiaNaomi Thanks! Yeah I realised this really applies more to jeans where the colouring is different on the hem.
Thank you for a great tutorial.
Love this!! Thank you! Hopefully I can do as good as you did!
wow, good job with the tutorial
I love this channel
❤fantastic! Thank you!
This helped me so much! Thanks!!
Is it okay if your 1/2 inch above the hem and your cut line are in the same place?
That's so cool!
Your other tutorial was fantastic but my brain was like beep bop bop.. I’m tracking with this one much better lol
Thank you for this video!! I appreciate it so much
I am so glad you enjoy and understand this one :D
Thanks for sharing! I was just about to wing this!
Glad I could help!
Thank you for the fantastic tutorial!!!
What size thread do you use in the bobbin? Is it the same size as the needle thread? I have an industrial Juki 1181n. Thank you 😊
I use the same for top and bottom thread :) All the details are in the description.
This is a good way to do, i used to do this and I loved it
thank you! Yes the euro hem trick is my favourite age old tailoring technique!!!
@@LydiaNaomi yea sis u r legend I actually learnt from ur one year old video ❤️❤️❤️ can u plz make a video on how can we easily size down our jeans with hand sewing needles
@@latihassan8437 oh amazing! I will think about the hand sewing method
Great job, thanks for sharing!
Good job🎉
Brilliant information on a technique I didn’t know about 😊
Can't imagine wearing wide leg pants I do a lot of hiking .. but I do love your cat adorable
Thank you! Ooo I like hiking too but of course the wide leg is not practical for that haha