{"id":2014,"date":"2025-09-28T23:50:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=2014"},"modified":"2025-10-11T11:17:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T17:17:31","slug":"blind-hem-and-bernini-b-350","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=2014","title":{"rendered":"Blind Hem and Bernini B 350"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up a new suit to match my sister-in-law&#8217;s color swatch and the pants came as 38-inch lengths. Those would probably be too short Big W, but they are too long for me. And for suit pants, a blind hem is needed.<\/p>\n<p>Going in, I was somewhat unaware that a regular sewing machine would struggle with this task, but there are ways to overcome it. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?app=desktop&#038;v=zzfYibWhfS0\">This video<\/a> is by far the best of ones that I watched and on my first try applying my new skills it worked for my pants:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2018\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?attachment_id=2018\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2018\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2018\" src=\"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20251002_081750_72A7D0-1-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"Pants with blind hem, playing 6th fiddle.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2018\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20251002_081750_72A7D0-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20251002_081750_72A7D0-1-144x144.jpeg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2018\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Happy day with Tina, Wes, Talia, Jamala, and Voke!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@AspiringGent\">Aspiring Gent<\/a> for making this easier. And for whatever reason, it hurt my brain trying to think about what I was doing and how it would work, but trust the process that Aspiring Gent lays out &#8211; it works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up a new suit to match my sister-in-law&#8217;s color swatch and the pants came as 38-inch lengths. Those would probably be too short Big W, but they are too long for me. And for suit pants, a blind &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=2014\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2014"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2020,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions\/2020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}