Turn your old boring jeans into new distressed jeans just by one simple technique.

How to shorten jeans with scissors. A tailor or seamstress can shorten them, either by cutting off. Take off the jeans and use sharp scissors to cut a small slice horizontally at this point. If cutting along a chalk line, use fabric scissors and carefully cut along it.

You can just fold your pants or jeans according to. Grab a pair of scissors and trim off any excess material from the bottom of your jeans. Diy shorts from jeans no sew.

It’s best not to use jeans with light. With a pencil, draw a line on the bottom pair, tracing the edge of. When you don’t have a sewing machine, hemming tape can be used to shorten your jeans.

If you have a sewing machine, you can shorten your jeans by taking them apart at the seams and then resewing them. First pin the hem in place from the right side of the jeans. When the first leg had been cut to the proper length, i laid it on top of the other leg, drew a pencil line where the shorter leg ended and cut again.

Insert the original bottom pieces we set aside in step #4 into each pant leg. Topstitch thread is too heavy. Use method #2 to cut the excess from the bottom of the jeans.

Do not try to cut. Cut the second pant leg. Put the new jeans that you want to cut underneath the old ones, matching up the waist, crotch, and side seams.