How do you hem blue jeans without making them look hemmed?
I have done upholstery and sunbrella boat covers. I am not a tailor. The problems are the same though. You will need a sewing machine, heavy starch, an iron, a sewing awl, or an icepick can be substituted for the awl if you have hand sewing needles to go through the holes made by the ice pick. Straight pins or safety pins. If you carefully cut away the threads they used to sew the hem, you can see how the original job was done. Cut the jeans to a length at least an inch longer than you want them to turn out. Turn them inside out and fold a small strip of the bottom edge to what was the inner side, but is for now the outer side of the work since they have been turned inside out. Spray with the heavy starch and iron with a hot iron until it is stiff. Repeat the process by rolling another fold up and ironing. Do not think that you can get away without the starch and ironing because the seam will try to twist around when it is being sewn even if you leave pins in it while sewing. The idea
