Just make sure to keep your needle away from the duct tape. Many years ago, DD bought some new jeans and, in a hurry to wear them, before her next trip home to let me take up the hem, she folded the legs up and used duct tape to secure the hems. Fast forward a couple of weeks and the air around this Mum's head was blue with very 'bad language' as I battled to sew the new hems through the duct tape residue. Nothing would get rid of that $(#&%#(* duct tape!!