Sewing Cuffs to Pant Legs for Hemming Pants

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How to sew cuffs to pant legs for hemming pants; get professional tips and advice on methods and techniques on sewing and altering clothing in this free instructional video.

By: Joel Siegel

Source: Expert Village

Length: 2:42

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Tags: clothing sewing

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"I've pinned this cuff all the way around the edge to know that's where want I want to make the bottom hem. So, I already turned this under a quarter of an inch to bind the seam and what I'm going to do now is run a seam all the way around, just right on top of it, to close it. And the idea is when I do that when I turn this over this cuff over, that hem is safely tucked away and you won't be able to see that. And all you need to do, is just put your fabric under there and this is a good time also again to make sure your seams all line up. Just put it right on top of where you sewed before, backstitch, of course. You don't want that coming apart and I know that this is exactly the same width that I hemmed it under as the pant legs. I don't have to worry about it not fitting. So, let's go all the way around. So, here we are at another seam. And you can look at it again to make sure that this seam matches this seam and lines right up. Do a back tack of course. And if those pins run away, you can just take them out. And there is one leg sewn under. Let me take those out. I'm going to go ahead and run a seam along the other leg. That will be really simple. And it doesn't really matter which seam you start on because you won't be able to see this when these pants are finished anyways. So, you just line it up, nice and straight. Do a little back tack. I can go a little bit faster on this one because I know exactly how to do it. Let's go all the way around. There we go. And another back tack and make sure that the seams match up at the at the side seams again. I'm almost finished with this. Feel free to take these pins out too if they're in the way. Cause, some of these are in the way, some aren't. I'll just like I'll take it out if it is. You don't want to run over a pin and break our needle. And here's a bottom. The side seam again. And we just want to back tack right on top of this. Okay. let's cut this thread off. And I'm going to show you how to turn that cuff up and tack it in the next clip. Which will be really easy. Then we will be finished with these pants. Okay."

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