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For a blind hem go ahead and pick the fabric you’re using. I’m going to use a woven
heavy and technique number five. That’s going to take us to stitch number 20 in row
one and have us put on foot letter D for the blind hem foot. Next it’s how you fold the
fabric. Start off by pressing in your final hem of your pants, your skirt, your curtains.
All right. Then, what you’re going to do is fold this, we’ll say, back. Expose about
a half inch over on this side and kind of just finger press this little fold down. We’re
actually going to stitch. We’re going to place the foot on the … you might say the
right side. This toe is bigger. That’s going to land on the single layer of fabric. This
smaller toe on the left side is actually higher. It’s going to support the three layers of
fabric on the left. I’m going to lower my presser foot down and then up just a little
bit, so just push the down arrow two times. Now it’s pivoting. I can kind of move the
fabric as I need. I’m going to run this fold right down where the two toes come together.
Now, I’ll show you once we get this done what you’re actually looking for when it
stitches here. I’m just going to keep that fold … sometimes I even kind of exaggerate
and catch that little bit of fold there. Right, and we’ll cut our thread. OK, so what we
want is the stitches to bite into this little bit of fold, the fold back part. What we have
here, this is how you know it is done right. When you have about the same amount of stitching
showing on the front side. If you have some larger and smaller ones, well that means you
just need to practice in your guiding and how you go about it.
The beauty of the sewing advisor is as you work for different weights of fabric the bite
changes. It’ll either get bigger or smaller based on how far that needle’s got to come
in. It actually kind of knows that it needs to change based on the thickness of fabric.
Definitely use the sewing advisor. Tell it that you’re doing a blind hem. Do a couple
practices. I think you’ll be surprised. You’ll never do a hand blind hem again.