Sewing Machine Techniques : How to Hem Dress Pants

Hemming dress pants requires taking apart the existing hem, pinning it at the proper length, stitching a single fold, folding the hem one more time and stitching the second fold. Hem dress pants in a French seam to conceal all raw edges with instructions from a sewing craftsman in this free video on sewing.

Expert: Sam Lewis
Contact: www.darkleather.net
Bio: Sam Lewis is an Austin-based artist and craftsman who works in clothing, leatherwork, photography and wood.
Filmmaker: Todd Green

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• sewing
• sewing machines
• hemming dress pants
• sewing stitches
• hemming jeans
• sewing leather

[MrElvisleroi]

Fantastic! The dry cleaner/tailor charges $15 for what I can now do for free. Thanks.

[tracyjohnson47]

This guy has no idea how to sew. This is a disaster

[Yeslek276]

I want to learn to sew. My grandmother was a GREAT seamstress but did not further her talent. Now she's dead she nvr passed on her talent to me. So i wanna give it a shot. I'm scared as hell cuz imma tech chick. Should I do it? :/

[MrUnique27]

Hey, I completely loved learning how to sew dress pants from your tutorial. It will save me so much from the dry-cleaners. I dont mean to sound like a penny-pincher or anything but in this economy, you do what you have to do and im not afraid of doing anything with my own hands :)

Thank you so much...I look forward to viewing more of your tutorials.

[Mahcoh17]

Hi,

I just subscribed to your videos and I found it very helpful.

Do you have any video tutorials that tells about sewing the side seam of a tee without the serger? just like overlocking?

[AiChuChuU]

What type of sewing machine do you have? I am new to sewing i want a machine that is easy to use but can also sew at a very slow place so i want a machine that has a slow setting what do you suggest? Thanks! Your video really helped, i was just accepted to a fashion school and i really want to practice over the summer : )

[CrustyBiker]

@katherineharlowe it sounds so smooth and silent compared with an average home sewing machine :-) and also the variable speed pedal seems to be very good for smoothly applying more or less pace..

Wow I just noticed it has a floating stitch area so you can pass material underneath, this is cool!!



[CrustyBiker]

@katherineharlowe it sounds so smooth and silent compared with an average home sewing machine :-) and also the variable speed pedal seems to be very good for smoothly applying more or less pace..

[williejax2]

if i was hemming just any ol' pair of pants, your instructions would be superior. However, as Nanefy notes below, the trousers need to be blind hemstitched if they are a "nice" pair of trousers, such as tuxedo trousers. Looking forward to your vid on blind hems.

[thedeadserv]

lol, random paused at 0:04. Yikes!