1) Making sure
your jeans have been washed and are free of any dirt, try them on and mark
using a white pencil crayon for dark jeans, or a black pencil crayon for light
jeans how long you want your shorts to be once finished.
2) Take off
the jeans and add 2-3 centimetres onto the mark you’ve just made, depending on
how thick you want the turned over bottom hem to be, the larger the turned over
hem, the more you have to add onto the initial mark.
3) Iron your
jeans to make sure all the creases have been ironed out so that the fabric will
lie flat against the table surface.
4) Lie your
jeans down flat on a table and make sure they aren’t rumpled up. Pin both sides
of each jean leg together along the lowest made mark. Make sure the pins are
pinned in a perfectly horizontal line, and are equal lengths on each leg.
5) Cut along
the pinned line.
6) Take out
the pins and fold over the hem of each jeans leg 1-1.5cm depending on how many
extra centimetres you added to the original mark.
7) Iron the
folded over hem of the jeans down flat, so that the bottom of the jeans stay
folded down.
8) Fold the
bottom hem of the jeans over again the same amount so that you can no longer
see the raw, cut edge of the jeans. Again iron in place, but this this time pin
it down for extra security.
9) Where the
front and back sections of jeans material have been sewn together at the side,
creating side seams, sew along the existing seam to keep the folded over hem in
place, do this for the inside and outside leg side seam on both legs. Here you
can use a sewing machine or hand sew, whichever you find easiest, however a
sewing machine assures a stronger bond.
10) Take out
the pins and you now have your very own pair of shorts.
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