How to Turn Jeans into Cuffed Capris

Well, I still cannot get pictures off my camera card...

The computer guy will be here later.

So today,

I'm going to show you a little sewing tutorial...

compliments of Instagram

(applause, please). ;)

I had some jeans in my closet that were too long,

so I decided to turn them into a pair of capri length jeans...

it stays hot here well up into the middle of October & cuffed capris look really cute with ballet flats.

I found this awesome tutorial last spring over on Make It & Love It. I used what I learned from Ashley & figured out how to turn my too long jeans into a pair of cuffed capris.

Thankfully my jeans were STRAIGHT LEG jeans.

That made my project much easier!

I probably would not have used these if they were flare leg jeans.

The first thing that I did was try them on & fold them up (WAY up), so that the hem of the jeans was were I wanted them to be when they were finished.

Then I measured.

I wanted about a 4 inch cuff, so I measured down 5 inches & another half inch just below. You can see were I marked them on the jeans next to the seam.

The lower dot is where I am going to cut them off. The 5" marked dot is where I'm going to fold them back up.

Do get scared...it's simple to do.

Let's keep going.

I made sure they were even,

then ~~I took a deep breath &~~ used my rotary cutter on them.

Now, I'm ready to sew.

(excuse the Tang hand there...you know you're supposed to wash your hands really good one hour after a spray tan, right??...I forgot this time, whoops)