My Easter and How to Hem Your Trousers

      Hi guys, I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday and a great weekend if you don't celebrate Easter. We were fortunate enough to get a long almost 4 day weekend, so we went to visit family. Earlier last week, my husband left me the car so I ventured over to the mall for some time with the little one. They have a great little play area for small children. I also got to stop in to H&M because I needed a new pair of black pants. Luckily I found a fantastic high waist pair that has a decorative gold zipper around the waist. It serves no purpose, just for looks. My GOD they fit great in all the right places but were super long, like most pants on me. I knew I would have to hem them, and I decided to document this. :) I have all this useful knowledge from going to school for fashion, so I decided I would share how to very easily and quickly hem a pair of trousers.

 These are the pants, you can find here for $24.95

I don't recommend this method for jeans because the type of hem this is, it looks best on dress pants or trousers/slacks of this type. It's called an invisible stitch. The reason why is because it's not visible from the right side.

 

So first you need to take out the old stitch that holds up the raw seam, it should look like this afterwards:

 

 

I put them on and figure out how much needs to be taken off and then pin them at that length.

Once you take them off, press the crease with an iron. Take them off again and cut the raw seam about one inch away from the crease all around.

 

 

Keep it pinned and thread a needle with matching thread to the color of the pant. The trick of the invisible stitch is to just grab one or two threads of the pant with the needle so it doesn't show through on the other side.

What you do first is put the needle through the turned up part, this doesn't have to be neat because it won't show.

After this part, you loop up and grab just one or two threads from the top:

After this step, take the needle and poke through just the turned up part again. Like this again:

and then back up:

 

The inside of the finished product looks like this:

 

And the outside of the finished product:

 

 

Not too hard, right?

 

 

I wore these pants dressed up and down this weekend with white ankle strap heels and coral colored espadrilles.

 

 

 

So, I also thought I would talk a little bit about our holiday weekend. In the Polish tradition we color and decorate our eggs and bring them to church to be blessed by the priest, so we did that on Saturday. Afterwards, we had dinner at my parents house complete with and Easter egg hunt for the kiddos. Saturday night, we went out with some friends for one of their birthdays. That brought me back to my childhood! We went crazy in an arcade and played glow in the dark mini golf, with plans to play laser tag, but it got too late :) Sunday, we went to church with my parents and then had dinner with my husbands side of the family. Monday we spent with his mothers side. All in all, it was a really fun family filled weekend.