315.

It's where we live, ya'll.

But we have folks complain when they're trying to find our place the first time that they can't see our house number.  We're not all about turning on outside lights much, especially in the summer (read: BUGS.).

Oops.

Well, my husband had another brilliant idea to remedy that:

Mo betta, yes?

Home EC Class: Project 10

Hemming Jeans

Lessons learned:
   determining correct length
   working with heavy materials
   determining your machine's limits

I am so impressed with how my jeans came out!  And how EASY this tutorial was to follow.  "Too long" jeans is something I frequently have a problem with but I'm always hesitant to try hemming them -- I don't want them to LOOK hemmed.  I want them to look like I bought them that way.

I was so excited when I saw that this was one of the tutorials in my Home EC class because it specifically said they were going to teach us how to hem jeans in a way that you would keep the original (factory) hem.  Yay!

I found these jeans at a consignment store for $10 so I figured there really wasn't too much of a risk if I totally screwed them up.  But I didn't!  And I didn't really have that much trouble with my machine through some of the really thick parts of the jeans.  I did have to hand-wheel around the side seams on both legs, but to be informative, these jeans ARE a little lighter-weight than normal denim.  That was probably a smart move on my part, starting with something like that for my first attempt at hemming jeans.

So excited to be able to take these jeans out of my "to-be-hemmed" pile and add them to my wardrobe!  Thank you to my husband for snapping my photos for me!