True Confessions

I love Pintrest.  I do.  I LOVE it. 

I love the looking... the pinning... 

the "Oh my goodness!  I am TOTALLY doing that!" feeling you get with every pin..... 

I have several boards with stuff pinned all over, but that's all I have done.  Yep I am a pinner.  Not a doer.......  until today.

You see, I have these jeans.  I found them on clearance (SCORE!) but they are a little long.  Ok.  They are "Long" jeans - and I wear "Average"  BUT they were on clearance (SCORE!)  I wore these jeans to run to the grocery store and I had just slipped on my flip-flops.  Big mistake.... or LONG mistake....hahaha  Anyway, I cursed the day I ever bought long jeans.  (Then I remembered how cheap they were on clearance - SCORE!)

So, the other day I am looking on Pintrest and I found this post. 

"Oh my goodness!  I am TOTALLY doing that!!"

I love Pintrest.  Love.

Now - as long as this is true confessions, here's another.  I don't sew.  My mother made my wedding dress....she is amazing.  She can sew anything.  Apparently being a seamstress is NOT hereditary.  Nope.  So, sewing for me is terrifying.
Now, I do own a sewing machine, it was a Christmas present from my husband.  (Subtle, don't you think?)  99.9% of the time it's in a box in my closet, but I brought it out for this one....

Here's my process:

Mmmmmkay.  They are a little long.

......but they were on clearance.  SCORE!!

The pink pin is marking where the length SHOULD be.

You measure to the original seam.  I need to take off  3 1/4 inches.  Wow.  They ARE long.

I turned up the jeans and measured HALF of 3 1/4 inches.  Which is an inch and a half, plus an eighth.

That's how I measured all the way around.  I even said it out loud.  "An inch and a half...plus an eighth."

 

Sew right next to the original hem.

Cut off the excess and iron.

The lady in the original post did a top stitch... I didn't.

They were on clearance - and they are the right length!  SCORE!! 

My sewing machine freaked out at the end.  Big mess of thread......tangled and ugly.  

I let out a Darth Vader "NOOOOOOOOO!"  And then decided to be done.  I will do a top stitch at some point to keep them from curling up, but for now I am happy to have totally done something I saw on Pintrest.  I can't wait for the next project.  I better get on Pintrest RIGHT NOW!!  I love Pintrest.  Love.