In the preceding phone call I'd told her to not bother with the jeans but to take them straight to the tailor as I struggle to hem jeans with my machine. She told me of a girl at her work who cuts the jeans off and sews the hem back on. I hadn't heard of this and could not grasp the concept (maybe a little to do with the description??) but was very happy to research further.
Anyway we (ok she) googled 'how to hem jeans and keep hem' and found this pdf tutorial:
http://home.comcast.net/~kozykitty/blog/originalhem.pdf
and the result was fantastic! I wish I'd taken a picture. But here's one of the final result as displayed in the tutorial.
I mustn't be a very good teacher because I kept on offering to take over - easier than watching her struggle. But actually I was very impressed with her efforts and the results.
Now it's time for me to get onto all those hems I've never bothered with.
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