Free Patterns for Sewing Clothing and Accessories from SewCanShe

Learn how to hem pants, use your sewing machine feet, make bias binding, and more!

How to Hem Your Pants: The Best Step-by-Step Techniques
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How to Hem Your Pants: The Best Step-by-Step Techniques

People want to know how to hem pants. How do I know that? I’ll tell you in a minute. But first, let’s be clear – this post will show you how to hem pants the quick and easy way with any sewing machine. It’s not fancy. You can see the stitching (so not for $400 dress pants). It’s basically the same hemming that you’ll pay $10 for at an alteration shop. Are you ready to DIY hem your own pants (or your kid’s pants)? I know you are.

How to Sew the Cheater’s elastic waistband
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How to Sew the Cheater’s elastic waistband

So, you may or may not have seen my absurdly silly church talent show video where I demonstrate my talent of ‘speed sewing.’ In the video I make a pair of pajama pants for an unsuspecting volunteer in less than 4 minutes. Anyone who takes pride in their sewing will cringe at my blatant disregard for proper hemming, seam finishing, and elastic waistband techniques.

But hey, I made them in 3 minutes and 20 seconds!

Basic Leggings for Girls – Free Pattern and Tutorial!
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Basic Leggings for Girls – Free Pattern and Tutorial!

I had so much fun last week letting you guess which of the leggings above were sewn with the serger and coverstitch and which ones I made entirely on my home sewing machine. Well here’s the answer: the orange leggings on the left with blackberries are the ‘fancy’ ones that I sewed with my serger and new coverstitch machine. The aqua leggings look almost exactly the same and I used my sewing machine only. How did I do it? I’m going to show you!