I bought a set of wide hem presser feet like this through Amazon. They came with no instructions. I found a video which was some help, but after trying it about twelve times, I was ready to give up. Then my husband found this tutorial. I watched it several times and then tried it again. This Tutorial answered several questions and showed me what I was doing wrong. I just finished hemming three sides of a piece of material and had no problems at all.
I can't thank you enough for this wonderful tutorial! I bought this set of three about a year and a half ago. Finally! Now I know how to use them correctly. Thank you so very much. I truly appreciate you sharing your expert advice.
What a great tutorial! I had no idea that this foot even existed, and it looks amazing! I am a lazy sewist and hate measuring and ironing hems before sewing them, so this looks fantastic!
Thank you so much Lisa. I am a completely lazy sewist too so this suits me perfectly! If you whip over them with a hair straightener after, you still get perfect pressed hems in a fraction of the time!
Ahhh, thanks for this video tutorial. I just tried using my set of wide rolled hem feet and it was challenging. I certainly only got one roll and they weren't even. Sometimes it stitched on and sometimes off. Tips I got: 1. Start stitching a little before you roll it in, do a double roll. 2. Feed in the double roll, slowly 3. Move your needle over. This will work well for couching wide ribbons and doing decorative stitching in the middle.
I had to watch 3 videos to finally find yours, you demonstrated the most important parts. the beginning and ends are the tricky parts. Now I get it. I Also needed to know about going over previous hems Thank you!
Thank you. This is really helpful. I bought a rolled hem foot and six pieces turned up. I thought the little pieces were to be connected to the big pieces, making in total 3 presser foots. Then I saw your video and you explained it was 6 different sizes!
You make it look so easy. No matter how many times I tried and how long I practiced, I hated every second of it. I was spending more time trying to make this work than just double-pressing the old fashion way. I really wanted this to work :(
It definitely takes a bit of practice, but as with all things sewing, what works well for one person isn't always the best way for another. There's so many different approaches that there's no right way of sewing things and that's half the fun I think x 😀
I know this is an old video but I wanted to thank you so much! I bought a set of 3 of these feet and didn't know how to use them. This will be a huge time saver! I just subscribed ☺️
Thanks for a great tutorial. Seeing the problems and having them solved is always of great benefit as we can be prepared, and solve our own issues. Jess
Oh me, oh my I'm so excited! I just tried this out on difficult stretch fabric, mettalics to boot. I used a stretch needle, a lightning stich, followed your tips and voila, just perfect! Thanks again.
Hi Faery..pl tell me what is a stretch needle and a lightning stitch? I am comparatively new to stitching and i really dont know what u mean by it.thank u🙏🇮🇳
@@shubhragoswami9785 There are specialty sewing needles for our sewing machine the one I referred to is manufactured to do better with fabrics that have stretch to it, such as knit fabrics, swim and exercise ware
oops. sorry I was not finished answering but hit send by mistake.. A Lightning Stitch is a very small zigzag that allows for some stretch without brraking right away like a regular stitch could. Hope that helps.
I really appreciate you showing me these tip especially at the end of the pants because I didn't know what to do and you were the only one showed me. Thanks again 😃
Thank you so much for this- as I was searching, I could only find videos of the thin rolled hem for sheer fabrics. This is just what I was wanting, and quickly found a set of feet in 6 widths online, which came today! Hope they work with my 1970’s Singer Fashion mate 360! It will be so nice to not have to premeasure, iron, and then feed myself! Your tips for starting, stopping, and going over seams, were very helpful, and as a Yank, I loved hearing your lovely accent, while learning😆. Thank you!
I purchased 3 of these months ago and hadn't a clue how to use them. Thankyou so much for your tutorial I definitely will try them out soon. Have subscribed to your channel and look forward to some more tutorials with more sewing tips.
You're very welcome. They can be such a time saver, especially if you frequently make things with long hems like skirts and dresses or if you batch make clothes. I tend to use this foot then quickly run over them with hair straighteners after and the hem looks professionally finished in no time!
Great video. I had been trying to practice using the narrow hem foot but I think my fabric may have been too heavy because I had issues getting the fabric to feed thru the little slot. After watching your video, I now know that I should have been using a wide hem foot for the weightier cotton fabric that I was trying to practice on. I'll keep the narrow hem foot for really lightweight or sheer fabrics.
I found it helpful, but will have to practice on an extra pc of fabric. I will probably be. Back to this instruction again. Will keep it on next to me when at the machine. Thanks.
Brilliant! I’d bought a set of these and after the right pigs ear I made of using the half inch I’d given up on them 🙄 I now see where I was wrong - will try again tonight now, thanks! 😘
I found that most useful and helpful. I was having trouble with my one. You hit on all the important points. Thank you. Shall subscribe to see what more you get up to.
I too didn't know this foot existed but I would sooner use the iron and tape measure it's too fiddly for me and too much messing about but thank you so much for introducing us to a new foot
Absolutely, it's always great to know what's out there even if it's not something you'll use on your current projects. If I'm only doing something little I don't bother to use it but if I've got metres to hem it soon works out much quicker when you get the hang of it.
Just bought a set of six containing three narrow feet plus three wide. The narrow one I tried initially worked pretty well first time. The wide foot I tried next would not keep the fabric running true for more than a few inches. It would skew, bunch, untwist and go completely off the rails. After many attempts I was quite discouraged and disappointed, cursing the foot as another piece of disingenously produced Chinese tat that superficially resembles the real thing but isn't engineered to actually work properly. Then I watched this video, saw that the foot here looks identical to mine, yet meters of fabric romp effortlessly through the machine with good results. Hmmm... maybe I was too hasty blaming the Chinese on this occasion. I picked up some points of technique from the video and tried some lighter, more flexible fabric closer in quality to the one shown. This produced a vast improvement, not quite good enough to be confident using the foot on a project but sufficient for me to un-give-up and push ahead with this. Thanks very much for a helpful demonstration.
Hello from the Philippines 👋i tried mine, at first it was sewing fine.. But eventually, it's sewing outside the edge of the folded fabric. So technically it's not sewing properly anymore.. i do not know what happened.. At first it was sewing smoothly and properly aligned, then all of a sudden.. It sewing outside already. What shall I do? Thanks
Question: how do you know the hem will be even? It looks as though when you folded the fabric over, you folded more over in some places. Will the foot even that out?
I still struggle in inserting the fabric through the rolled hem part. I did everything like you did. I wish you had a different camera view. Thank You .
Thanks for the tutorial, unfortunately mine kept going wonky, I think it the way I’m folding it in the foot. I’ll figure it out. Thanks so much for sharing!
More trouble than it's worth, based on this demo. It would be faster to fold over twice, press well, pin or clip, and sew close to the edge. The French seams make using the rolled edge foot awkward and untenable.
Thank you for this useful tutorial--I bought the 3-pc wide-hem set and could NOT figure out how to get started. Now I know not only how to start but how to end. Since I won't use these feet particularly often, and my brain is like a sieve, is there by any chance a WRITTEN set of instructions for me to have on hand?
Hi! Thank you so much for your tutorial. I followed your instructions and it worked super well! But I’m having troubles now... I’m using a wide hemming foot, but for some reason it doesn’t stitch straight 😳 It’s curving towards the side that is heavier (right). Do you know what’s happening and how I can fix it? (When I use a “normal” foot it stitches straight). Thank you!
This looks like more work than quite a few do without an attachment. Also you double folded the hem before it went through the attachment the same as if you were not using an attachment. At the point when you removed the fabric from the attachment it looks like the hem may not have fed trough evenly.
Have you tried finger pressing the first bit of the hem to help it stay in place easier/adding a couple of stitches before putting it in? Maybe something like a toothpick would help you push the fabric in place if it's difficulty getting it in the guides that's more the problem.
+key55551 a 1/4 inch hemmer is usually a very narrow rolled hem foot. I'm not convinced that will give you enough space, so if I were you I'd experiment on some scraps.
Your beautiful hand (left) blocks all the most important parts and secrets of sewing.
I bought a set of wide hem presser feet like this through Amazon. They came with no instructions. I found a video which was some help, but after trying it about twelve times, I was ready to give up. Then my husband found this tutorial. I watched it several times and then tried it again. This Tutorial answered several questions and showed me what I was doing wrong. I just finished hemming three sides of a piece of material and had no problems at all.
Oh that's so wonderful! I'm so pleased it helped 💕
I brought my feet from Amazon with no instructions and I'm glad I came across this video as well.
I can't thank you enough for this wonderful tutorial!
I bought this set of three about a year and a half ago. Finally! Now I know how to use them correctly. Thank you so very much. I truly appreciate you sharing your expert advice.
Thank you for showing us how to negotiate trouble spots, much appreciated.
Thanks for showing the tricky bits - the seams, the end. Most tutorials only show getting it started.
I'm so pleased you found it helpful
Finally someone give a good tuto on this foot and how to work with it thank you
What a great tutorial! I had no idea that this foot even existed, and it looks amazing! I am a lazy sewist and hate measuring and ironing hems before sewing them, so this looks fantastic!
Thank you so much Lisa. I am a completely lazy sewist too so this suits me perfectly! If you whip over them with a hair straightener after, you still get perfect pressed hems in a fraction of the time!
Ahhh, thanks for this video tutorial. I just tried using my set of wide rolled hem feet and it was challenging. I certainly only got one roll and they weren't even. Sometimes it stitched on and sometimes off.
Tips I got:
1. Start stitching a little before you roll it in, do a double roll.
2. Feed in the double roll, slowly
3. Move your needle over. This will work well for couching wide ribbons and doing decorative stitching in the middle.
I had to watch 3 videos to finally find yours, you demonstrated the most important parts. the beginning and ends are the tricky parts. Now I get it. I Also needed to know about going over previous hems Thank you!
+HouseofDivinity Thank you so much. I'm so pleased you found it so helpful 💗
Thank you. This is really helpful. I bought a rolled hem foot and six pieces turned up. I thought the little pieces were to be connected to the big pieces, making in total 3 presser foots. Then I saw your video and you explained it was 6 different sizes!
You make it look so easy. No matter how many times I tried and how long I practiced, I hated every second of it. I was spending more time trying to make this work than just double-pressing the old fashion way. I really wanted this to work :(
It definitely takes a bit of practice, but as with all things sewing, what works well for one person isn't always the best way for another. There's so many different approaches that there's no right way of sewing things and that's half the fun I think x 😀
Georgia I agree with u I watch these videos get all excited to try and end up frustrated at how much time I wasted
Thank you for Sharing this video I just bought this Pressure foot and I didn't know how to use this broad ones So I found this Very Helpful. 👍👌👌👍
I'm glad you found it useful. Happy sewing 🪡
I know this is an old video but I wanted to thank you so much! I bought a set of 3 of these feet and didn't know how to use them. This will be a huge time saver! I just subscribed ☺️
Thanks for a great tutorial. Seeing the problems and having them solved is always of great benefit as we can be prepared, and solve our own issues. Jess
Thank you so much for your informative tutorial. The instructions were clearly explained and the hem came out perfectly.
Oh me, oh my I'm so excited! I just tried this out on difficult stretch fabric, mettalics to boot. I used a stretch needle, a lightning stich, followed your tips and voila, just perfect! Thanks again.
Wonderful! I'm so pleased it worked for you!
Hi Faery..pl tell me what is a stretch needle and a lightning stitch? I am comparatively new to stitching and i really dont know what u mean by it.thank u🙏🇮🇳
@@shubhragoswami9785 There are specialty sewing needles for our sewing machine the one I referred to is manufactured to do better with fabrics that have stretch to it, such as knit fabrics, swim and exercise ware
oops. sorry I was not finished answering but hit send by mistake.. A Lightning Stitch is a very small zigzag that allows for some stretch without brraking right away like a regular stitch could. Hope that helps.
@@faeryfox6253 thank u so much Faery for quick reply.i will hav to look up to the stretch needle on u tube.❤🇮🇳
Thank you so much! I just bought a set of these feet and I had no idea how to use them. Now I do!
So pleased you found it helpful
I love your tutorial voice and how clearly you enunciate. Great instructions! Thank you.
I really appreciate you showing me these tip especially at the end of the pants because I didn't know what to do and you were the only one showed me. Thanks again 😃
Thank you I have been threw a dozen videos and this is the first one that helped. I really appreciate it.
Very informative. I learned a lot from watching you make the rolled hem. Thanks for sharing.
You're very welcome, I'm glad it was helpful ☺️
Thank you for doing this tutorial it really saved me from so much frustration. Thanks again.
You're very welcome!
Thank you so much for this- as I was searching, I could only find videos of the thin rolled hem for sheer fabrics. This is just what I was wanting, and quickly found a set of feet in 6 widths online, which came today! Hope they work with my 1970’s Singer Fashion mate 360! It will be so nice to not have to premeasure, iron, and then feed myself! Your tips for starting, stopping, and going over seams, were very helpful, and as a Yank, I loved hearing your lovely accent, while learning😆. Thank you!
Thank you for this tip. I bought these feet and was getting so frustrated I was about to throw them away. Now I just want to hem hem hem!
Thank you so much! I was having hard time inserting fabric in the hem foot! Excellent tutorial😍
I ordered these feet. It is going to make my job easier
Thank you for a detailed demonstration. Really helpful.
Appreciate the excellent explanation and demonstration!
Exact same foot, or a set of them, are in the puzzle boxes for 19th century treadle machines. So, apparently it works well.
I purchased 3 of these months ago and hadn't a clue how to use them. Thankyou so much for your tutorial I definitely will try them out soon. Have subscribed to your channel and look forward to some more tutorials with more sewing tips.
I usually skip over the seam and come back later and hit it. Great tips.
Brilliant! This is just the tutorial I needed. Thank you!!
I'm glad you found it helpful 🙂
Bless you!! I got these foots, but I had no idea how to use it. Thank you
Tq for amazing & great tutorial..
from melaka. Malaysia
I see a new foot in my future. Thanks for the video!
You're very welcome. They can be such a time saver, especially if you frequently make things with long hems like skirts and dresses or if you batch make clothes. I tend to use this foot then quickly run over them with hair straighteners after and the hem looks professionally finished in no time!
Brilliantly demonstrated thank you now I can get mine out to use it I was nervous to use it in case I mess it up!
Thanks for that. I didn't know how to start it off with the foot. Now I do.😀
You're more than welcome. Happy sewing 🪡
Fab video! After loads of other videos yours helped me finally do it right! Thank you.
Great video. I had been trying to practice using the narrow hem foot but I think my fabric may have been too heavy because I had issues getting the fabric to feed thru the little slot. After watching your video, I now know that I should have been using a wide hem foot for the weightier cotton fabric that I was trying to practice on. I'll keep the narrow hem foot for really lightweight or sheer fabrics.
Great video, thank you.
Thank you. You explained very clearly. It helped me immensely.
SOOOO VERY helpfulll!!!! Just bough mine and was horrified with my results. Im ready to try again.
I found it helpful, but will have to practice on an extra pc of fabric. I will probably be. Back to this instruction again. Will keep it on next to me when at the machine. Thanks.
Great video, the only thing is that your hand was in the way of the foot when you were rolling in the fabric. Other than that really good.
Brilliant! I’d bought a set of these and after the right pigs ear I made of using the half inch I’d given up on them 🙄 I now see where I was wrong - will try again tonight now, thanks! 😘
I found that most useful and helpful. I was having trouble with my one. You hit on all the important points. Thank you. Shall subscribe to see what more you get up to.
I learnt a new thing today! I am going to inquire about wide hem feet for my Juki F300.
Lovely demo, thank you.
So pleased you found it helpful
Thank you for nice tutorial. Appreciate the closeups. Very helpful for me. Will have to try it.
Thank you so much. I'm so pleased you found it useful 💕
Really wish your hand wasn’t in the way when showing how to put the fabric into the foot...
Yea, I couldn't see it either
Thanks for showing the seam bump.
Can’t wait to try mine
I too didn't know this foot existed but I would sooner use the iron and tape measure it's too fiddly for me and too much messing about but thank you so much for introducing us to a new foot
Absolutely, it's always great to know what's out there even if it's not something you'll use on your current projects. If I'm only doing something little I don't bother to use it but if I've got metres to hem it soon works out much quicker when you get the hang of it.
Thank you for this tutorial. I recently got a set of presser feet. Now I will try these with more confidence.
Hope you had fun trying them all out!
Sewing Bee Fabrics I surly will.I will need to refer to your tutorial till I get a neat finish. Bye.
Thank you for this very helpful video. I had no idea such a presser foot existed. So, I ordered them!
Thank you so very much
thank you so much. My fiancé got be a couple of these little buggers, and I was absolutely lost on how to make them work.
+Deb Powell haha so pleased you've got them sussed now!!
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Amazing tutorial 👌👌 Thank you so much 💐🙏🏻
Thank you so much! It was a very helpful tutorial.
very clear and helpful , thanks !
About to give this a try. Thanks for the video.
This is an amazing video !
Just bought a set of six containing three narrow feet plus three wide.
The narrow one I tried initially worked pretty well first time.
The wide foot I tried next would not keep the fabric running true for more than a few inches. It would skew, bunch, untwist and go completely off the rails.
After many attempts I was quite discouraged and disappointed, cursing the foot as another piece of disingenously produced Chinese tat that superficially resembles the real thing but isn't engineered to actually work properly.
Then I watched this video, saw that the foot here looks identical to mine, yet meters of fabric romp effortlessly through the machine with good results.
Hmmm... maybe I was too hasty blaming the Chinese on this occasion.
I picked up some points of technique from the video and tried some lighter, more flexible fabric closer in quality to the one shown. This produced a vast improvement, not quite good enough to be confident using the foot on a project but sufficient for me to un-give-up and push ahead with this.
Thanks very much for a helpful demonstration.
I'm glad to hear your hemming foot escaped life at the bottom of the sewing drawer and the tutorial was helpful ☺️
Would have helped if you had used wider hem for tutorials. Would be easier to see.
Thank you for sharing
Hello from the Philippines 👋i tried mine, at first it was sewing fine.. But eventually, it's sewing outside the edge of the folded fabric. So technically it's not sewing properly anymore.. i do not know what happened.. At first it was sewing smoothly and properly aligned, then all of a sudden.. It sewing outside already. What shall I do? Thanks
Really good technique , thanks.
Question: how do you know the hem will be even? It looks as though when you folded the fabric over, you folded more over in some places. Will the foot even that out?
Muchas gracias
I still struggle in inserting the fabric through the rolled hem part. I did everything like you did. I wish you had a different camera view. Thank You .
Me too ☹️
Hi I love the video but your hand was in the way, could you change angle of camera!
that looks easier then the first.
Very nice! 👍🏼
please your hand is in the way
Thanks for the tutorial, unfortunately mine kept going wonky, I think it the way I’m folding it in the foot. I’ll figure it out. Thanks so much for sharing!
Do you know your beautiful hand and fingers block all the important key points?
That was v suttle and true
More trouble than it's worth, based on this demo. It would be faster to fold over twice, press well, pin or clip, and sew close to the edge. The French seams make using the rolled edge foot awkward and untenable.
Thank you for this useful tutorial--I bought the 3-pc wide-hem set and could NOT figure out how to get started. Now I know not only how to start but how to end. Since I won't use these feet particularly often, and my brain is like a sieve, is there by any chance a WRITTEN set of instructions for me to have on hand?
I'm glad it was of use to you 😊
Very helpful
Thank you! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼❤️
I need to get one of these. I much prefer doing a double rolled hem. I think it just says looks better than a single rolled, Overlocker hem.
+David Hutchison it looks so much neater that way doesn't it!
Will this work on a straight stitch machine where the needle is not adjustable left or right?
Even though this was quite informative, I didn’t learn anything new. I gave a like because of the ladybug fabric.
Can his be used on double knit fabrics if you don’t have a overlock sewing machine?
I think double knit fabric is too thick for this rolled foot. That fabric doesn't fray. You don't have to overclock it
Excellent, thank you. Would the wide hem foot be suitable for hemming jersey tshirt sleeves and waistbands please? x
Can you show a close up of what the stitches look like where the seams were? How did it look ?
Does this fold the fabric twice so the edge is hidden under
Thank you for your demo, now I know that this foot doesn’t serve my needs.
Hi! Thank you so much for your tutorial. I followed your instructions and it worked super well! But I’m having troubles now... I’m using a wide hemming foot, but for some reason it doesn’t stitch straight 😳 It’s curving towards the side that is heavier (right). Do you know what’s happening and how I can fix it? (When I use a “normal” foot it stitches straight). Thank you!
I wish i’d seen your tutorial before i gave up on my wide hem foot and tossed the annoying little bugger out! Oh well 🤷🏼♀️
This looks like more work than quite a few do without an attachment. Also you double folded the hem before it went through the attachment the same as if you were not using an attachment. At the point when you removed the fabric from the attachment it looks like the hem may not have fed trough evenly.
Will this work with my Straight Stitch only machine?
Thanx 💖
fantastic video! thank you .. and may i just say I could listen to you speak for hours lol.
Just came across your video, very helpful but your hands were in the way when showing and explaining a problem.
Yea, I agree. Couldn't see how she rolled the fabric into the foot ☹️
I'm extremely impatient with myself. I've tried everything and nothing is working
I have bought this but can't put the fabrics into this hem presser foot. I understood to need practice😩
Have you tried finger pressing the first bit of the hem to help it stay in place easier/adding a couple of stitches before putting it in? Maybe something like a toothpick would help you push the fabric in place if it's difficulty getting it in the guides that's more the problem.
I find steam ironing the first few inches in a double fold helps a lot, and I use an old blunt needle to push through
The link says it's no longer there, are these feet available anywhere? And are 9mm available??? Please.
Can you use this foot to make a pocket for elastic?
+key55551 yes absolutely. I would go for 6/8" or 1" sizes depending on the width of your elastic.
Thank you I will be using 1/4in
+key55551 a 1/4 inch hemmer is usually a very narrow rolled hem foot. I'm not convinced that will give you enough space, so if I were you I'd experiment on some scraps.
What would make my finished hem *not* lay flat?... Anybody?