Make sure you measure and mark your jeans accurately.

How to cut up jeans with scissors. Fold the bottom leg under and out of the way. Cuff your jeans to give the shorts a polished, rolled look. 1) when buying jeans, check out the inseam length you want.

If you want to make them look more distressed, use sandpaper. (you will cut the one on top first.) if you are cutting based on your own marking, use that mark as your guide, and start cutting,. Give straight cuts on the marks and get your cutoff shorts, remove the stray threads and finish with a hem.

Use the sandpaper, grater, tweezers, and scissors to distress any jeans like a professional. Put on your jeans and figure out where you want the new hemline to be. They are going to be the best tools to use in this case.

Place a ruler at your mark and find the spot exactly across on the inner leg seam. First, take one of the legs and cut along one of the long seams. Place the jeans on the cutting board and cut them.

Cuff your denim at the mark you made. Put cardboard inside in the spots you want to create holes, sandpaper them and then cut with a. They often come in other lengths.

The remaining leg pieces will be like long tubes with seams on two sides. Mark this spot with a tiny dot. Grab a white chalk and just mark the straight lines on your jeans for the shorts.