Cutting Bottoms for Bell Bottom Jeans

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Malina Perasso and welcome to Expert Village. In this series we're going to talk about turning regular boring old jeans into funky bell bottoms. So in this clip we're going to talk about cutting the selected measurement that we marked aside on our jean for this bell bottom project. So here we have the fifteen inch mark where we marked off, and we're going to take our scissors, and hopefully you have fabric scissors. If you don't have fabric scissors then any really sturdy scissor will do, you want to get something that is stainless steel, something that's good and that you have a good grip on, because denim is kind of hard and if you don't have a good scissor your hand is going to be in a lot of pain after this. So we are going to cut along the seam line, and what you want to do is cut right next to the seam line. Just so you know there are two sides to it, if you cut along this edge, you're going to cut along all this chunky fabric, and that's not what you want, you want to cut along the other side where there is no fabric. So we're just going to cut all the way up to our fifteen inch mark, and there's going to be about a fourth of an inch boarder left between the seam and what you chopped, and that's fine. You want to go ahead and cut all four slices two on each leg."