Measuring Hem Length for Hemming Pants

Video Transcript

"Now that we have the hem totally taken apart, I'm to go and just mark the final length that we're going to use. And my friend told me he wanted it five inches shorter. So, if you want to look at the hem here. So, it looked like this before we took the hem apart. And so this was the length the previous length and if I open it up, I can see that's the seam that was at the bottom and we're just going to open this up. I'm going to go ahead and mark five inches up. Now we're going to do one leg at a time. You don't have to do be super fast you can take your time. Just mark five and I like to run a little piece of chalk here and you do all sides on both legs. Here's another five inches here, here and here. And I like doing this because it gives me a guideline and looks really straight and even. Let me do the other leg. So, in the next clip, I'm going to show you how to mark the cuff itself, which is, we'll talk about that and I'll show you how to do it. It's pretty easy. And if sometimes, like, it's not dirk in fact straight across, like this one is a little crooked, don't worry about that. In the end, it's going to come out nice and straight. Flip it over. Five inches. So, now I have both legs marked their final length at five inches. Now we're going to use all of this excess fabric to make this cuff. We're just going to mark it up and then we fold it up. But I'll show you how to do that next. "