This is the BEST way I've seen to start a rolled hem (and I've watched lots of videos)! Especially given how short this is, it feels like this video should be much more popular. Thank you so much for this tip!
I have a love hate relationship with this foot. All video examples I have seen are with stable well behaved fabrics. I really need techniques that help with slinky slippery fabric. I guess spray starch is the solution but sometimes I’m reluctant to use it on certain fabrics. I’m currently sewing one up with the ban roll method that The Sewcial Studio recorded on her channel. It appears to be working but I will give your tips a try next time I bring out the rolled hem presser foot. Thank you! ❤
I've been sewing some Barbie clothes and once again tried to use this foot. It can be challenging, to say the least, and I wish the sewing machine companies would offer some of the apparently more reliable options available for commercial machines. That being said, I found something that helped me (with my seriously imperfect vision): if you're having trouble getting the fabric into the foot correctly, simply take the foot off, put the fabric in correctly and get it folded around, then hold the fabric with your finger while replacing the foot. It's fiddly, but everything about this foot is fiddly and so much depends on the fabric you're trying to hem. I'm doing better making a narrow zig-zag (I can't press that narrow of a turn-over, and the straight-sewing method wasn't working as well on thin satin) over the edge and then holding my finger under the fabric feeding into encourage that edge to turn under just a little (1/8") but some fabrics have given much better results than others.
I've never been able to make mine work. I have been trying to make square or rectangle furoshikis for gift wraps (basically scarves, but cotton) but a) cant make the narrow hem foot work very well, and b) don't know what to do at the ends / corners if I DO make it work. I will try again - I was possibly trying to run the machine too fast. Thank you for this!
I’ve seen other tutorials about the narrow hem and this tutorial was way better. Thanks
This is the BEST way I've seen to start a rolled hem (and I've watched lots of videos)! Especially given how short this is, it feels like this video should be much more popular. Thank you so much for this tip!
it's so hard to get right but so satisfying when you do
I have a love hate relationship with this foot. All video examples I have seen are with stable well behaved fabrics. I really need techniques that help with slinky slippery fabric. I guess spray starch is the solution but sometimes I’m reluctant to use it on certain fabrics. I’m currently sewing one up with the ban roll method that The Sewcial Studio recorded on her channel. It appears to be working but I will give your tips a try next time I bring out the rolled hem presser foot. Thank you! ❤
I've been sewing some Barbie clothes and once again tried to use this foot. It can be challenging, to say the least, and I wish the sewing machine companies would offer some of the apparently more reliable options available for commercial machines. That being said, I found something that helped me (with my seriously imperfect vision): if you're having trouble getting the fabric into the foot correctly, simply take the foot off, put the fabric in correctly and get it folded around, then hold the fabric with your finger while replacing the foot. It's fiddly, but everything about this foot is fiddly and so much depends on the fabric you're trying to hem. I'm doing better making a narrow zig-zag (I can't press that narrow of a turn-over, and the straight-sewing method wasn't working as well on thin satin) over the edge and then holding my finger under the fabric feeding into encourage that edge to turn under just a little (1/8") but some fabrics have given much better results than others.
I've never been able to make mine work. I have been trying to make square or rectangle furoshikis for gift wraps (basically scarves, but cotton) but a) cant make the narrow hem foot work very well, and b) don't know what to do at the ends / corners if I DO make it work. I will try again - I was possibly trying to run the machine too fast. Thank you for this!
Holy cow the extra visuals on this were so worth it. Best breakdown I've seen so far.
Thank you for the clear explanation but, I do have a small request, how do you do a corner on a narrow hem? Thanks in advance.
Great tutorial! Thanks for sharing Tova.
I've never been able to do it
Thank you very much! Love it
What should the tension be? I've followed these instructions but the back/understich keeps loosening madly!
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I can't even stitch a straight seam 😭