Tutorial: Easy Baby Hem with Sew N'Tell!
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- I could twirl for DAYS in this floaty baby hem! It’s the finishing touch on this DIY baby pink 'n blue sundress. Easy to sew, makes a completely flat finish (no gathering needed!) and uses just a teeny bit of your hem allowance-- under an inch! Great for when you want a flat hem with maximum twirl potential.
Made with fabric from the Love Is Love Pride collection by @MxDomestic
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👗 DRESS FABRIC: amzn.to/38moq05
💥Kai scissors: amzn.to/3x6E8Yk
💥Hem marker (recommended): amzn.to/3djKNGz
💥Vertical Steam Iron (separating): amzn.to/3xde8u0
💥30 inch Crinoline (same style, but other colors): amzn.to/35XtPtw
💥Platform sandals: amzn.to/3gXfOSL
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I love love love these tutorials! I’ve been sewing since the beginning of the pandemic and it’s been so much fun watching and learning from you guys or ,the way we say it here in Texas, y’all. Every time you have a new tutorial, I’m ready to try it out. It’s usually on dresses or rompers that I’m sewing for my grand daughters. Thanks for all the fun classes you present.
Linda, I am SO HAPPY to hear that!!! I want everyone who picked up sewing or made a mask these past months to keep it going. I hope you start on some dresses for yourself soon💗
Hello fellow Texan 👋🏼😁
I think the word you were searching for is circumference. The baby hem sure is clean, way easier than the ironing way!
Was about to also say that
Yes. Yes u r so right about the rolled hem foot. It can be pretty tricky. I learned the baby hem when I started working at a fabric store about 10 yearsago. What a game changer 👏. 😮💙 it!!
AWESOME instruction. I have literally been sewing for *ahem* 50 years and never knew how to get baby hem perfection! Thank you. You have taught an old dog a new trick!
That’s awesome! Sewing never gets boring, there’s just always some new trick to learn💗
So a baby hem is going to be used for my circle skirt to new dress .. tonight...perfect thank you ... from the UK 🇬🇧...
You are great. I have been sewing on and off for years and I didn’t know what a Baby Hem was. I love your tutorials🙏🏻
Thankya Sharon! I’m so glad you’re liking the videos!
Thank you!! I knew wear to come back to when I had to sew a baby hem!
I love doing this type of hem. Sewing is very therapeutic and requires patience. Love the dress and looks beautiful on you. ❤️
Thanks Marion! Sewing has def made me a more patient person (except when it doesn’t 🙃)
Thank you for the PERFECT TIPS for beginner!
Hi there 🙋🏾♀️
This worked so much than pinning. It looked great too.
And that dress is Amazing!!
Thank you so much💃
Your hair gives me life…it’s gorgeous 😍
😁😁😁thank you!
Perfectionista 🎆✨🎀🎨👗
I'm digging the baby hem...thanks!
You’re a lifesaver! My vintage pattern wrap skirt has been hanging waiting to be hemmed. You’ve just taught me how to do it. Thank you!!
EXCELLENT! Hope you enjoy it!
What a great hem. Just used your technique on my challis dress. Thank you.
I love it! Great technique! Thank you.
Super cute dress and love the fabric. I find taking the time with those types of details in my sewing projects to be so meditative, and the result just so clean and crisp. Thanks as always!
Yes! And it’s so nice to take the time and enjoy it 💗
Great Job!!! Have a great day!!!
...did I see you almost losing the patience at some moments...?
Soo fun to watch.
And as a tailor myself I can say you are right: you CAN make a dress in one day...but it is not worth it.
Wonderful, to have a real pro here and not one of those "easypeasyquickkktutorials".
Thanks for everything. Got a new subscriber. Greetings from Germany.
Probably whenever I had to do math 😂
love the fabric and the underskirt.... you gots style !!
Thankya kindly!
Beautiful!
Marcy i love your tutorial. I have done the same hem but I left the last stitching out. Love the pink, patience and perfection.
Thanks Evelyn!
Always a joy to watch, thanks for sharing all your tips and entertaining us along the way.
You’re most welcome, Terry!
Ah, a pink patient perfectionista in a petticoat! Love it. Excellent tutorial, as always. Edit: Also posing prettily in public purview.
And I could have been on parade, to boot!
Thanks Patricia, glad you liked it 💗
Patience is a virtue... which I lack. 😁
Cute dress. Thanks for the useful instructions. I do love that Rob got all Game of Thrones on you.
He’s been really enjoying that lately 🤣
I just watched your episode of Manifest!! My jaw dropped and I was like...."That's Marcy!!!"
Took a binge break to watch this video! 😁 Love that fabric!!
Ah you caught me! Thank you!
Super cute! Both of you. Oh yes. The dress, too.
😁he’s cuter than the dress, I must admit 💗
@@handmadeharriells So are you. :-)
I absolutely love this hem. Thank you. Marcy. My appliqué scissors were perfect for the trimming step. Keep them coming. 😘🧵🪡
My mother was a math teacher, she would be so proud of me right now. Radius is the length from the center point of a circle to the outer edge. Diameter is the twice the radius or the width of a circle at its widest point. Circumference was the word you were looking for, that's the distance around the 🔵.
Beautiful 👗
Well I’m definitely proud of you. My brain honestly froze right after *radius is the length* 😂 I had to read that excellent explanation 4 times though and it STILL hasn’t sunk in! I used to sit in the front row in math class in an effort to get closer to the information. Apparently proximity didn’t help.
What a fun dress!
Thank you ❤
!!! That iron/steamer combo is awesome.
love your video fun and informative
Ohh look at you!!! You look stunning. Thank you for sharing.
On my list, this baby thanks you for the inspiration.
Lovely! 🦋
Love it thanks for sharing this ❣️🧵🪡✂️💕❤️💗💓
I love that dress perfectionista
You rock it girl 💖☮️
Marci, I love this dress and your fabulous choice of fabric. But most of thanks so much for making my life easier with the baby hem lesson. 😎💕
It is soooooo satisfying when it’s done. I hope you love the outcome!
Super cute summer dress! Love it and you picked the best scenery for your background
Isn’t it great? It’s Lincoln Center. Right before Rob started, a VERY good, very large dog posed patiently right in the middle of the steps while his dog dad snapped a pic. So freaking cute.
Yay! Full skirts are back, along with those wonderful petticoats. They had a resurgance in the 50s when I was making some of those fun skirts... Yes, even the Poodle Skirt was a circle skirt, and needed the required petticoat. (Or several.) Wonderful video, and a smart way to finish the hem. Thanks for the demonstration, with important info on letting the bias settle. So fun to see the Harriells in New York.
I remember the day I realized a poodle skirt was a full circle skirt, blew my mind that it was such a simple shape!
@@handmadeharriells ... They were made of felt. I never had one, but I remember they were made of felt, light felt (so no hems, etc.) I made my own clothes, so I made some circle skirts, just not the Poodle Skirts. I have seen that you can buy the felt appliques, still today, but if anyone ever wanted to buy them, I'd do a lot of research to get some that look right.
Love the dress, you know exactly what to put on your body. So talented. Love you channel.
Thank you! I think sewing is really what helped me find what works on me. Sewists have alllll the control 💪🏽
Great dress and easy technique! Ya'll are so beautiful! Love your videos!
It’s beautiful ❤️
Love this. It's great having a few hours to myself once in a while so I can get some of my sewing done. The only problem is I usually have 3 projects going at a time.
TRUTH. I’m thinking of getting a rolling garment rack for my works in progress 🤣
Fa.bu.lous!! 💕💕💕 thxs for tips
I have to admit, I've never seen this technique before. Basically, the first stitch is a stay stitch, just on the hem! Makes a lot of sense on a bias cut seam. I need a tutorial on the rest of the dress!
True! I don’t know if it keeps the skirt holding its shape like it would a neckline, but it sounds totally reasonable.
Maybe I can whip up a dress tutorial…
Happy Pride, Dear Harriells'. Fingers crossed that the Ottawa Parade is a go this August.
I recently found an old Singer Hem Marker on the second-hand section of the online. Glad to see they're still making a version of them - so useful. And about the same price, thankfully.
Loving your Baby Hem Technique. It's quite elegant. And it keeps that skirt as long and floofy as humanly possible. Well done and thank you.
You are doing CosSy (Costume Symposium) on The YT, Aug 19-22, yes.
- Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown
I hope you nabbed that hem marker! I had a new one and loved it, been looking for a more vintage feel.
I haven’t heard about CosSY!
@@handmadeharriells You need to do CoSy. Please do CoSy.
There are how-to videos, panels, deep research dives, discord server. The whole caboodle.
Vintage and historic and making fashion are the topics of the days.
Last years event went by the moniker CoCo Vid. There should be playlists around somewhere...
Definitely nabbed the seam marker and so glad I did. It had all the parts. And was a Heck of a better price than Le Etsy.
Plus there's that extra little jugge of having gotten it working again, by myself, ha-ha...
So, it seems (no pun intended) that a baby hem is another sort of french seam, where clipping and encasing edges makes the seam as neat as possible. Good to know, and definitely something to add to the sewing arsenal! Love the dress, and I get you about baby pink. I cannot stand baby pink! I grew up in a room of baby pink, while my little sister had green. Maybe that's why green 💚 is my favorite color? 😂 Good ol' sibling rivalry.
Haha, you always want what the sibling has! My bro had the biggest room, but somehow age has changed his memory to my room being the “best.” (i mean, it WAS, because I made it technicolor. Sorry bro)
I absolutely love your videos! I'm new to sewing and have been wanting to try my hand at making a circle skirt. Hems are daunting to me, but this method seems very doable (even for someone who lacks patience like me 😬). Thank you!!
Thankya Shelley! I’ve got a circle skirt tutorial coming up tomorrow that should help you in your quest 💗
Thank you Marcie!! Excellent tutorial!
All the way around= circumference. Love your videos!
😊 Thanks
That color does suit you and I love that red crinoline skirt under it. You really need to do a tutorial on that!! 🥰🥰
Ooooof sooo….I buy my crinolines! All that tulle would drive me batty. But, I could showcase my favorite RTW options 😉
I have used this method for probably hundreds of dresses - I used to work in alterations in a sweat shop. We were always rushed and mistakes happened. Nothing is worse than accidentally snicking the skirt material while trimming off the excess. If that happens, I usually get the seam ripper, take out the stitches for a couple of inches on either side of the snip, refold the hem just enough to clear the snip hole and restitch the first seam before continuing with the rest of the hem. Of course, it's easier not to catch the skirt material in the first place but not catastrophic!
Oh yikes. I get too crazy and lop the whole thing off when that happens 🤣 though, if it was my hundredth hem in a day, I might not go full lop!
Hella cute dress!! I *knew* that Rob would show up as soon as you said “perfection” !!😂🌈❤️
🤣🤣🤣he has radar for buzzwords like that
Love watching your video , they are relaxing and easy to follow . Do you have a video on making you own bodice also what advice would you give to someone like me who have very different body shape. I am a 14 uk top but and 18 UK waist. Finding it hard to make a bodice for a dress 💕💕💕
Thankya Nicy!!
When I find I’m between sizes on a pattern, I blend the sizes before cutting. I’ll start at say a 10 bodice, and extend the line for the size 10 out to the size 14 at the waist. If you’re making your own bodice, you might check out Winnifred Aldrich’s book on pattern making, you can create your own slipper and from there the world’s your oyster! But I’ll see what I can do on a video 💗
@@handmadeharriells Thank you so much for replying to me and your helpful advice 😊. Hope you're well and having a lovely day 💕
Another awesome tutorial! Marcy what sewing machine do have?
I have several! They’re about to make a little debutante’s entrance in an upcoming video 💗
Yes! Mr Domestic! What an innovative and creative person. It’s nice to see you share him with clothing sewists. Sewers- soowers. Nope. Sewists it is!
His collection is awesome! (and yeah…it’s downright painful to read “sewer” 🚽)
@@handmadeharriells I still use "Sewasaurus Rex" every now and then. ;-)
Love your crinoline. Did you make it?
I draw the line at sewing yards of tulle 😂 this one’s RTW, there’s a link in the box (of course, never say never)
I had NO idea about letting the skirt hang before hemming 😲🤯
Also, are we bringing back petticoats because I'm here for it.
They are the original social distancing. I have 3 😬
I got stupidly distracted by your Uncle Joe's Mint Balls tin! That's from my neck of the woods 😄
Hahaha! Rob brought those for me and there was no way I was throwing that tin away 😁
@@handmadeharriells He visited Northern England? Yay! Next time let me know you're here. I'll make scones and put the kettle on 💖
Hello just saw you on Manifest S2:E6 Very good Ms. Marcy
Ah thankya Tawanna!
I love your channel! When you are sewing around the hem of a circle skirt, you would be sewing around the circumference of the circle. 😉
CIRCUMFERENCE. YES. And so many syllables. I love a super syllabled word 🤓
Is that the pink interfacing underneath??
Good catch, but it’s a different pink! That’s a very thin cotton fleece boned lining. I thought the fleece would hold up to boning but still be breathable!
The word you wanted was ~circumference~, if you are talking about going around the edge of a circle. Radius means going from the center of the circle out, like the spokes of a wagon or bike wheel, or the RAYS of the sun. Diameter means a line cutting the circle in half in equal hemispheres.
Ah thankya ☀️☀️☀️that’s what helps me with math! I remember horizontal by saying HORIZON 🌅 to myself. I have to say it almost every time 🤣
I think she was right not to like the tshirt with the word on it. I an indigenous and I honestly do not like the word. I do love this dress and the baby hem it's so beautiful. I did not know you had to let the dress hang thank you/ Mussi Cho ( dakelh)
Actually, I love the shirt, the word “savage” is what sold me (as in fierce and fabulous). It was the color that put me off! He knew if he gave me a shirt with one of my favorite words on it, he’d get me into pastel pink 💗
How? HOW do you eyeball a hem? The last circle hem I eyeballed ended up with more waves than a surfing contest and was too short in sections! Gaaaaah! Love the tut. I have a specialty for and am too chicken to use it, so imma do you instead! 😁
😁😁I should do a short on how I eyeball the hem! I get it eye level and keep the scissor blades as level as possible. It’s my favorite thing to do in the morning with a cup of ☕️ (or six)
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The one dislike was "diameter"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣it’s my old math teacher come to disapprove
I was counting, so I did know it was 3 passes around with the stitching.
😁I always get chided for my 3 passes when there’s hem feet to be had. I like the long route!
@@handmadeharriells then by all means you should do 3 times around. I have my grandmother's Singer electric machine and she has lots of feet. I'm going to see if the baby hem is one of them. It's the only electronic machine she had. After it was given to me, my Mom found the sales ticket for when my Grandad bought it for her for Christmas! It is 8 years older than I am!
Love the game of thrones shame!
He does too apparently 🤣😂🤣😂
How. Cute. Is. THAT DRESSSSS
I love it! I don't love that I have apparently been doing baby hems wrong all this time (someone forgot the trimming bit!)
Hahahaah! I mean, there are so many ways to accomplish anything in sewing. But that trimming step does make for a lighter floatier finish 💗
I baste measurements with my machine whenever I can. Mostly because I am horrible about eyeballing anything and measuring and ironing is almost as much fun as scrubbing the bathtub. I’d much rather sit with my coffee and take out the basting! Hint: use your ugliest contrasting thread!
Oh yes always contrasting thread! I’m always trying to get people to change their thread color for basting and gathering….it takes like 30 seconds.
yay - go metric !
I’m trying 😅!
Calling rolled hem feet finicky is being generous... Even with three passes this way is faster than battling with those feet!
I have yet to win a battle with one 😅
Uhh, looks at full circle skirt and um well, yeah, now I know why! I guess ten years later is enough hanging time for me to take the old hem off and re-do it? Nice tutorial, slow as it may be to sew that long hem, unpicking the sewing from the baby hemming foot gone wrong is more tedious and takes just as long with a lot more bad words interspersed.
🤣sometimes good things take time!
Yeah, so far the baby hem foot has not proved worth the aggravation for me. It gets R rated reeeeaaal quick
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I don’t know if you’re laughing with or at, but either way thanks for sending me to google to find out what WW means. WWWWWWW
Oh no not the shame shame shame shame 😬
TWICE. I sense a third time coming 🤣
SHAME 😂
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