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Hi, I'm Melina Piroso and welcome to Expert Village. In this series we're going to talk
about turning regular boring old jeans into funky bell bottoms. In this step we're going
to talk about the hem on the bottom of our bells. After we have the triangle sewn on
we're going to first iron this flat. The reason why you want to go ahead and iron this flat
because if not when you are sewing the hem you are doing something like this. It's going
to be very very bulky you are going to have this kind of clump here at the bottom. You
don't want that what you want to do is open like this and that way you have a little bit
more of a smaller clump. It's a clump but it's going to be a little bit smaller and
it's going to look a little bit better. So we're going to go ahead and grab our iron
and we're going to iron open the seam preparing to sew the hem. We're going to open it up
like this and we're going to iron right down the middle so it's flattened out. We're going
to take our scissors and we're going to maybe trim some of this access off. Now we can go
ahead and maybe iron it once more to get it flat.