How to Hem Jeans With a Decorative Hem

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Debrah DeMirza, at Deluxe, a local resale clothing boutique, in Eugene, Oregon, and today, I'm going to show you how to hem jeans with a decorative hem, so if you're applying the decoration, say you're applying ribbon, you can just start with the end seam, and a little bit of overlap over the seam, and I guess, just pin my ribbon on, or my decoration, whatever it is, on both sides, all the way around, where you want it, and then when you get to the end of it, what you do, is you cut off an extra inch or so, and then you can fold that seam under, so that the fold is not leaving any raw edges exposed, and then you tuck that under, and then you can do an overlap seam, over that hem there, and then if you're actually trying to hem a pair of jeans, that has a decoration on it, you can't obviously, just turn it under, without losing most of your decoration, so what you can do, is you can take the jeans above the decoration. Let me put a couple of more pins in here, and then you can put them on, and see how much you're going to take them up, and then you can make a fold all the way around, so that it actually ends up being above the decoration, and you can pin that. Make sure that you have it even all the way around, when you measure it, above your little decoration line. Some decorations are embroidered, so you can't obviously, cut through those, and some are just applied. You can either move the application, or as I said, you can just create a stitching line above your decoration, so that when you stitch that line there, and you fold it back out. Oops, I guess I have it a little too much here, and of course, you can check as you go along, to make sure that you are having an even line, above your decoration, so there you have shortened your pants, without taking away any of the decoration, and you have the seam line, that's pretty much invisible, because it's right above, your line of decoration, and that's how you can hem a pair of pants with a decoration on the hem, without losing your decoration."