Ironing a Pants Hem

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"Now we're ready to press the bottom of the cuff. And what I like to do, I like to rutn the pants inside outwards. So, all the the searms are showing on the inside. And I just find that it's easier to do this instead of trying to top press it. And what I want to do also is I'm going to press right here where I already tacked it. I'm going to press where the cuff is. I mean, excuse me, where the middle seam is, where that press seam is. Because it will give me an initial press. Cause this one is already done. I just want to make sure that these are at one and a fourth also like I like to do another check. One and a fourth. Let's get your iron. And do a little press right here. And then I'm going to go to the other side. Do the same thing in the middle Just going to turn it up one and a fourth inch. You could put a pin in there if you want also. You're only going to have it in there for like a second or two. There's one and a fourth. I'm just going to run a litlle press right here also. Okay. And now what I'm going to do, I'm going to open it up from this press to the other one . I know that's one and a fourth and I know the corner is. I'm just going to press it like this. I like to have the steam on too. It makes it stay pressed so much easier. This one's pressed and this one's tacked. Just run this right here. You don't have to do it for very long or very hard because the steam is pretty quick it pressing that. okay. I'm going to lay this down. This is tacked, this is already pressed a tiny bit. And I just do this all the way around on all four sides, well all four pieces from the middle seam to the side seam. There we go. Now I'm going to do the other leg. These pants are going to turn out really nice. So, I got my middle seam and let me do a quick measurement. We don't want to press this up the wrong length because then it will look funny. We'll have like a wave in the bottom of the cuff and we don't want that. There we go. We're going to do the side now. And as you can tell remember when I told you that sewn seam isn't going to show, you can't even see it. It's going to look really nice. There we go one and a fourth inches up. In doing men's pants with the cuff it's all about your measurements. If you can get your measurements straight and nice then there is no way that you can mess this job up. There you go. If you can learn to do this, then you can save some money instead of having to get someone else to do it for you. Here we go. And I think I have two more little presses to do. And what we're going to do after this.I'm going to flip them out and do one final press. Okay, let's turn them ..."