In this 4-week series, you will learn how to hem pants 3 different ways. Students will start by learning how to fit, measure and mark trousers before cutting and sewing. Lessons will include both clean finish and blind hemming for woven fabrics with a focus on hemming Jeans. Following demonstrations, students will be given fabric to practice the sewing techniques during the practice time allotted in class. Time permitting students may bring their own pants in to hem.

Students must have basic sewing machine operation skills or have taken our Machine basics class.

Curriculum
Students learn to measure, pin and cut properly, Utilize the Clean Finish hem on both Woven Trousers and Jeans and learn to create a "Blind" hem using both the machine and hand work. Each class will allow for demonstration and practice of the techniques.

Instructor Aguida Zanol is a Bay Area sustainable designer passionate about rethinking and redesigning excesses into resource materials. Her strengths are refashioning clothes, furniture, and object design. With 18-plus years of experience researching new possibilities with recyclable material, she has come to find many ways to re-design and re-think products. Originally from Brazil, Aguida moved to San Francisco in 2017 to experience a sustainable City and implement AZ Ecodesign Lab through Refashion Hubs after successful work and awards in Germany, Netherlands, Africa, and Brazil.

Aguida is also engaged in the cause for Plastics In The Oceans, and the " Sea Urchin Collection" to bring together sustainable designers for a reason, in progress. The concept involves man, nature, research, Science, technology, culture, creativity, economic aspects; Colors, shapes, printings, and much more. She is never at a loss for something new to design and learn.