HOW TO Hem and Shorten a Dress in Six Steps | This Old Thing Workshop

Expert pattern cutter Michael Hunt from This Old Thing shows you how to shorten a dress or skirt in six simple steps.

[chictraveller]

Great and straightforward tutorial! I just did it on a black, jersey dress by hand since I don't have a sewing machine. Saved me at least $15 and taught me some skills. Thank you!

[Leonicles]

I'm a slightly chubby 4 ft 10. I never learned sewing and have felt too intimidated to hem myself. I either have an impossible task of buying something or I have to ge6 it tailored. I like to get my clothes 2nd hand and paying for a $10 and hemming it for twice as much is just dumb. Anyway, I gotta thank this channel and that man. I was able to hem my new dress myself! A whole world have just opened up for me! Thanks so much

[jessicayafanaro]

literally the easiest and most straight forward tutorial in the entire world, THANK YOU lol

[lillygrace]

about to do this all by hand... wish me luck

[Dontboxmein]

I just hemmed a summer dress that I purchased earlier today. This video helped me hem a dress for the very first time. I used the machine to do the basting stitch (set the stitch length to 5mm and didn't back stitch). Thank you so much!

[cikacikaboomboom]

It was impossible to see what he was doing.

[leftylibra]

I did my new skirt and it all worked out. Thank you!

[sofielinnea]

I'm worried the hem will be crooked

[MyGreenNest]

What kind of stitch did you put in to finish the hem? Was it a straight stitch, zig zag?

[debracarter]

This is easier said than done because every time I have tried to shorten a dress by measuring this way it has turned out crooked. The only way seems to be to wear the dress and have someone measure for you or use a dress makers dummy which I don’t have. How do you do this on your own?

[christyn.]

This was very good. To critique, I
only wish his fingers were not blocking the camera so I could see the finished product. I could not see the stitch size going through the machine. I would have liked to see it done in another color thread for contrast as well because I could not follow it.

[hadif.]

oh my god I'm screwed I can't do this

[AnnLafemme]

It really looks simple, thank you. :)

[SheTheDee]

This is all fine and dandy to zig zag stitch the edge of the material if you are as SKILLED as this gentleman on a sewing machine, but for novices who require something more basic, this is a LUDICROUS suggestion. Using a machine to just simply running stitch a folded over hem is hard enough, let alone securing the very edge of the fabric using a zig zag stitch!!

[nubiaaparicio]

BEAUTIFUL THANK YOU, ILL BE WATCHING YOUR CHANNEL

[RemyS-T]

So what stitch did you use at the end a straight or zig zag one?

[sareng]

at timeline 1:45, Mr. Hunt stated to tack in place? but where is the tack? or did her mean tape in place? How did he start to sew when he did not explain or show the basic step?

[tammyjohnson]

What do I do if the original hem was torn off (by a weed whacking device, shredding the hem) quite unevenly on a satin fabric floor length “robe” and I want to make an even hem on it but keep as much length as possible? Help????🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[mamabear]

If I was doing this with a ball gown so it touches the floor, could I sew it without cutting any off to make the bottoms of the dress a bit heavier? So it’s a large hem on the inside. Thanks

[zumerkadri]

Will zig zag work for stretching material