Hey everyone, sorry I didn’t get this up yesterday… this week is my super bowl of sewing for the volleyball team. I promised one of my Craftsy students that I would show how to fix a pant leg that was cut too short. This tutorial will show you how to create a cuffed hem to hide the fact that you mistakenly cut your pants too short to hem. This is a topic that is included in my Craftsy Class – Sewing Mistakes: What can go Wrong and How to Make it Right. (A great class for beginner sewers… It’s very basic 
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Depending on how short your cut the pant leg, there are also other options. If you cut it long enough to wear, but you don’t have enough to turn the hem up, an other option would be to create a facing. Start by trimming the pant leg to the length you need, plus a seam allowance. Then you would cut out a strip of fabric (or use the very bottom of the pant pattern to make a facing pattern piece) and sew that to the raw edge of the pant leg. Turn the facing to the inside to create the hem allowance.
If you making jeans you can sew the extra back on and then re-cut the leg at the desired length. The seam will mostly disappear into the weave of the denim. This is the method used to shorten ready to wear jeans when you want to keep the original topstitching. Here’s a link to a great tutorial from Man Sewing that shows you how to do that… Plus he’s very entertaining
If anybody has another solution to fixing a pant leg that’s been cut too short, please share it with us And, if you have questions, please let me know!