Tacking Cuffs for Hemming Pants

Video Transcript

"Now we're ready to tack this cuff up. There's different types of tacking. A tack just basically means that it's just like a little small seam, either hand sewn or sewing machine sewn. Anyways, it's just like a little tiny little seam, it doesn't matter where it's at. Anyways, on these pants, my seam was right along side, right in the crack where the seam meets. And that's what I'm going to do. If the pants that you're hemming was right on top, you can do that too because they come that way. Then sometimes they're actually sewn with a needle and it's just like back and forth motion going sideways and that looks good also. Whichever way it was, or whichever way to put it, it's all okay because it looks good. So, I'm just going to run my seam right along the inside of those two seams. Just backstitch a little bit. There we go. And mine looks like exactly like it was when I started hemming these pants, the original hem, and I like that. I like to stay consistent with how the pants are. Here we go. And I'm just going to do all four of these. And I'm just going to do it right here in the seam. And if your sewing machine doesn't like to get in there, feel free to just pop over and just put one right here too, right on top. Because that's normal and a lot of pants have that, it won't make a difference. There we go. Just trim that. Now we'll go ahead and take these out. Let me do this one. And after this we're going to press it down because, of course, I can't wear it with it being all floppy like this, we're going to have to press that. There we go with this one. Let me go over on this side and do this one. I'm glad I measured already because if I didn't I would have to measure now while I was sewing it and I like to do it just all at once. Here we go. I like to be able to just get in there and sew it. Let me clip this. So in the next clip what we're going to show you how to do is press this ham and this cuff down all the way around and then they'll be ready to wear. So let's do that in the next clip."