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Okay, so all we need to do for this leg now is to do this little whip stitch around the
edge of it to hold it up or tax it up. So, I'm going to start right here at the seam.
I always like to start at seams it's like the strongest part and a whip stitch is basically
just go to one side to pick it up, run through just the side of it horizontally and there
we have it and it's basically the same thing as a blind stitch. But it's a whip stitch
style and we don't want to go through and grab the fabric on the other side but if you
do, it's okay because you have the same color thread as you do pants and it's not going
to show if you accidentally go through. But just pick up a little tiny piece a little
thread piece, my thread always does that, if yours does it, just pull it. It happens
all the time. Okay, I'm going to go pretty fast around here and you can practice this
stitch if you have to but it's pretty simple just grab one edge through the other one.
There we go. This is the same type of stitch that you'll would use on a pair of men's slacks.
It's call an invisible hem or a blind hem, okay. Here we go. We're almost halfway done
and when I come up on this one corner, I'm going to put several extra stitches right
there because that's a stress point and we don't want the thread breaking right there.
I'm just going to grab a whole bunch of if. Right here, it's many layers so I'm just going
to grab a big chunk of it. Go through a big chunk of that but It's kind of hard to push
through but if you have a thin thimble you can use that too to protect your finger nail.
Here we go and in this way, if your foot or your shoe gets caught on this hem, this area
will be real strong. It won't break off real easy. There you go. I think I put like three
extra stitches right there, okay. If you want, you can even put more than that. I'll rather
be safe than sorry in this kind of situation. So, you want to do it again, okay. So, I'm
almost to the end. Here we go and I'm going to finish it off just about the same way that
I did that thick side over here. I'm going to put several stitches there because it's
the beginning and the end and I don't want that to break. It's another stress point at
any seam. Here we go, okay I'm just going to kind of go back and forth. Okay, I think
I'm ready to tie it off. I'm just going to make simple little square knot and just go
down. I like to make maybe like three on there and then when I cut it, I'm going to leave
about a half an inch so It won't come untied and just take these little pins out and we're
almost done. I'll show you what it looks like. It looks good, okay. So, this is our original
hem back in the pants.