Be Jealous Womens Curved Hem Turn Up Sleeve Jersey T-Shirt

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In conclusion, if you make mistakes sewing a curved hem you may end up chopping off inches of your skirt or dress. Take comfort in knowing that you’re not the first this has happened to, and you certainly won’t be the last. I tried to cover everything you need to know about sewing curved hems. Armed with all this guidance you can approach sewing curved hem with confidence and wear your newly finished garment with pride.

In this tutorial, we will be focusing on the folded hem, which can either be machine or hand-sewn. Hand sewing looks neater, as you can work every stitch carefully, but it is also more time-consuming. If you do have the time, you can try hemming by hand and making an invisible hem. This is useful when you don’t want any seams showing on the right side of your garment. When a straight hem just won’t do, a curved hem can turn a plain skirt or a dress into a work of art! Learning how to make a curved hem comes in very handy, especially when making dresses or circle skirts. Here is an easy method that will give you a smooth, neat finish on any round hem. Curved Hem Did you ever happen to wash a beautiful glass vase, only to drop it after and watch helplessly how it shatters ( clean, nevertheless ! ) into a million pieces? Frustrating, right? The same is true when hemming a dress for which you have probably worked many hours. Since the hem is one of the last items to be sewn, rushing the job to get it done may result in costly mistakes that are difficult to fix. For the regular sewing machine hem, you still need a bit of patience while folding and ironing, but the satisfaction will be worth it! Other sewing tips you will love: I like to make a picot edging with a curved hem and it is very easy to do with a regular sewing machine. I use settings you see in the image below. I use Eloflex thread because the hem is stretchy. I discovered it quite recently and I am still amused by how beautiful and at the same time simple it is. It gives very nice hem finish for lightweight silk fabric and cotton knits.Remember, that often we don’t want any stitches showing through to the right side of the garment. And also make sure no folds or ridges from gathering the fabric are visible from the right side of the garment.

First – stitch the bias strip (which is not folded yet) to the curved hem (about 5 mm seam allowance) trying to sew very precisely. Turn the bias strip over the edge of the hem, fold it and sew by hand or by your sewing machine.

The problem with this type of curved hem is that the hem size at the edge is larger (or we can say also longer, wider) than the size of the hem on the fold (an actual hemline). And because of this, we will have to deal somehow with this fabric surplus – we will have to make it smaller for the hem to look nice. Save I like to use bias strips (or just elastic strips) with any lightweight and medium-weight fabric, especially with silk organza fabric. You can make bias strips yourself, or use already made ones bought from a store. Bias tapes are cut on the bias so they are a little stretchy which is good for sewing curved hems.