Master The Art Of Blind Hemming Suit Pants! (Ep. 2)

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Күн бұрын

The mysteriously invisible hem? Stitching on the inside and not a stitch showing on the outside, but how?! Come behind the seams with us as we show you how to perform a blind hem on a pair of suit pants!
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00:00 Introduction
00:41 Mark and Measure the New Hem
02:03 Cut the New hem
03:51 Finish Raw Edge with Serging
05:56 Blind Hemming the New Hem
09:12 Final Reveal

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@NitaGaskin-ge5zc 11 ай бұрын

I recently purchased a blind hemmer and this has helped me tremendously. Thankyou so much.❤

@jayclaw Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this tutorial, this is exactly the skill I wanted to learn!

@subiazia5377 Жыл бұрын

Nice.Thank you.

@gumidtg 4 ай бұрын

When starting to surge/overlock a "closed circle" like this, I prefer to lift the foot, releasing the thread tension, pull a bit of thread out at the needle. Then I pull the "thread-tail" off the fork. This enables me to place the fabric under the foot and needle exactly where I want to start. No loops hanging on the edge of the fabric. To stop I go an inch past the beginning, lifting the foot and turn the fabric 80-90º to surge off the fabric. You seem to have an awesome machine for blind hemming? Blind-hem only? It is absolutely possible to use my serger to do this, but I prefer using my sewing machine. (I'm just an happy amateur!)

@helenburrell6207 Жыл бұрын

What kind of pressure foot is on the machine for the hem

@saraaronzon4562 9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@saraaronzon4562 7 ай бұрын

I just bought my blind hemmer! Can’t wait to learn more! Thank you again for your support.

@CritterGal68 10 ай бұрын

Oh geez. That's an awesome machine for blind stitching. I only have a Bernina reg sewing machine. Blind stitch never comes out great. I often find myself just wanting to hand stitch a blind stitch. Also, I don't have a serger, so finishing a raw hem is less beautiful w/ a zig zag :( If anyone has any suggestions or tips for finishing a raw edge or hemming pants w/ just a reg machine, please share!

@sewshowwithshae 10 ай бұрын

One of the things you can do specifically for suit pant bottoms is press a half an inch fold so that you are pressing the raw edge down and then fold your hem allowance up again so that you’ll just be stitching a clean folded edge on the inside of the pant. And if you don’t like the function you have on your machine, the blind can always be done gently by hand with a very similar look.

@CritterGal68 10 ай бұрын

@@sewshowwithshae Thanks for the reply! So, I pink'd the pant bottoms (less fray), did the 1/2" turn & stitched w/zigzag. The problem there is that my 1/2" wasn't a perfect 1/2", so when I turned up the final 1.5" & pressed, I realized that the hem didn't meet the pant leg evenly all the way around. This, in turn, would mean doing a machined blind stitch would be a problem as I would not be able to keep a consistent turn-back on the fabric entering thru the BH sewing foot (where the needle will grab just a tiny bit of the pant leg fabric). Thus, the needle would grab the pant leg at random places all the way around & make the hem look puckered. If you've done a traditional sewing machine BH stitch, you *know* what I mean. I ripped out the BH stitch several times before throwing in the towel & simply doing a hand stitch of the BH. SO much easier & quicker. Came out looking nice. I give up with the BH stitch on my machine. No matter how much pinning or whatever, I always have gaps (which I don't realize until I'm almost done), and then the hem looks puckered. BLEH. Thanks for the reply!

@shirleyggne984 2 жыл бұрын

How do you address the extra fabric when you sew the hem two inches up and the pant is wider there?

@sewshowwithshae 2 жыл бұрын

Usually just a gentle taper in either direction, a bit in and then a bit out depending on the different in circumference. Most pants allow a 1/2 on bot inseam and outseam so you have a bit of play for this procedure.

@shirleyggne984 2 жыл бұрын

@@sewshowwithshae Thank you so much!

@kevinorr6880 6 ай бұрын

I would love to see you do a military ‘break’ in the front and a 3/4” longer in the heel. How would you measure and Mark this? Thank you for the tutorial.

@sewshowwithshae 6 ай бұрын

I find the three-quarter inch length to be a little awkwardly long so I’ll usually only do half an inch difference, and I mark it as a straight slant with a plastic ruler from front to back and then round over the creases.

@kevinorr6880 6 ай бұрын

Thank yo. I have it pinned at 1/2” now as well. Seems to be easier to hem by hand rather than a blind hem stitch in my machine. @@sewshowwithshae

@stephenmbithi116 Жыл бұрын

My machine is not able to pick the thread from bottom, and also it is hard when I try to run the wheel, what might be the problem?

@sewshowwithshae Жыл бұрын

This sounds like a timing issue, if the wheel is fighting you and not getting a good grip on the bobbin thread you are due for servicing to get the top and bottom parts running together!

@Kelly-vc4rs Жыл бұрын

How do we do this using a normal sewing machine?

@sewshowwithshae Жыл бұрын

Hi Kelly...well....let's just say there is not a 'direct translation', the blind hemmer is a totally seperate machine with a bent single needle and no bobbin, its really quite different from the regular machine. I will admit, there is a 'blind hemming foot' attachment for regular machines (but secretly I don't care for it as a general personal preference) and it is not similar to this function.

@AdilAdil-fu8dd 10 ай бұрын

wenn du der Hose koblen die gute seite nach oben

@ogechichukwu4207 7 ай бұрын

Thanks dear, is the 2" hem the same for female workwear pants or is it 1" for female pants

@sewshowwithshae 7 ай бұрын

Totally a matter of opinion, we stick to 2” just for consistency but functionally you could leave however much you like!

@ogechichukwu4207 7 ай бұрын

@@sewshowwithshae Thanks dear

@wildrice8199 Жыл бұрын

I'm so confused by the intro. Where is the second example in this video? That's what I came here looking for, but looks like it was first example only. Second one should just have been left out of the intro then.

@sewshowwithshae Жыл бұрын

They are the same procedure, the 2 example pants are just showing the various ways the pants may come to you from the store; either already hemmed or loose. Both are them hemmed the same way the only difference being that you will have to cut the stitching if the pant is already hemmed and you are now wanting to make it shorter.