How to use a wide hem foot - quick sewing tips and tutorial from Linda Forager at sewing bee fabrics
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- čas přidán 23. 07. 2024
- Hemmer feet are used to quickly and easily make an accurate hem without having to do any measuring or pressing before sewing. Find out how you can attach the presser foot and sew your own easy hems with our tutorial. This guide also includes common troubleshooting problem solving tips.
You can find these feet along with many others over at www.sewingbeefabrics.co.uk/pro... - Jak na to + styl
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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.
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.
Thank you for showing us how to negotiate trouble spots, much appreciated.
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
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
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!
Thank you so much! I was having hard time inserting fabric in the hem foot! Excellent tutorial😍
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!
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 💗
Finally someone give a good tuto on this foot and how to work with it thank you
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 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 for this very helpful video. I had no idea such a presser foot existed. So, I ordered them!
I love your tutorial voice and how clearly you enunciate. Great instructions! Thank you.
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.
Tq for amazing & great tutorial..
from melaka. Malaysia
Thank you so much for your informative tutorial. The instructions were clearly explained and the hem came out perfectly.
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 learnt a new thing today! I am going to inquire about wide hem feet for my Juki F300.
Thank you I have been threw a dozen videos and this is the first one that helped. I really appreciate it.
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 ☺️
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.
Thank you. You explained very clearly. It helped me immensely.
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 a detailed demonstration. Really helpful.
Bless you!! I got these foots, but I had no idea how to use it. Thank you
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 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 🪡
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 💕
About to give this a try. Thanks for the video.
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!
Thank you for doing this tutorial it really saved me from so much frustration. Thanks again.
You're very welcome!
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.
Appreciate the excellent explanation and demonstration!
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 ☺️
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.
Thank you so much! It was a very helpful tutorial.
Brilliant! This is just the tutorial I needed. Thank you!!
I'm glad you found it helpful 🙂
Lovely demo, thank you.
So pleased you found it helpful
Amazing tutorial 👌👌 Thank you so much 💐🙏🏻
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!
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! 😘
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 🪡
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!
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, thank you.
very clear and helpful , thanks !
Thanks for showing the seam bump.
Really good technique , thanks.
SOOOO VERY helpfulll!!!! Just bough mine and was horrified with my results. Im ready to try again.
I ordered these feet. It is going to make my job easier
This is an amazing video !
Exact same foot, or a set of them, are in the puzzle boxes for 19th century treadle machines. So, apparently it works well.
Can’t wait to try mine
I usually skip over the seam and come back later and hit it. Great tips.
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!
Thank you for sharing
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.
Muchas gracias
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.
Very nice! 👍🏼
Thank you so very much
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!
Very helpful
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!
Excellent, thank you. Would the wide hem foot be suitable for hemming jersey tshirt sleeves and waistbands please? x
Is it ok to use this presser foor for the rail hem for denim trouser legs??? Thank you..
Thank you! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼❤️
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?
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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Thank you for this tutorial. I have been trying to use this foot on my machine but the top thread isn't picking up the bobbin thread when I use it. Do you have any idea what I may be doing wrong? Many thanks. Hila
The foot shouldn't make any difference to what the top thread and bobbin thread are doing as it is simply a guide for the fabric before it reaches the needle. I would say it is far more likely that the needle is bent or either top or bottom thread just needs rethreading. Or possibly the bobbin you have in is a plastic one that has started to slightly distort in shape. Feel free to email me if you haven't managed to fix it and I'll help you troubleshoot it.
Thank you. I have plastic bobbins so I will check that as well as rethreading again and starting afresh and will let you know how I get on..
Are you holding down both loose ends as you start? Some machines are awkward (mine for one) and if I don't hold both ends firmly for the first few stitches, the bottom one gets sucked back under and disconnects from the top thread, sounds like maybe that is what is happening to you?
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 ☹️
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.
Can you show a close up of what the stitches look like where the seams were? How did it look ?
Will this work with my Straight Stitch only machine?
Thanx 💖
what would this work on thick material, such a cheaters, or prequilted fabric? i am trying to find a way to finish raw edges on pre quilted fabric without buying a serger. HELP PLEASE!
+m dane the wider the hemmer foot, the more space there is for bulkier fabrics. Although I haven't used them with quilted fabrics myself, I would have thought that the 1" and maybe even the 3/4" sizes would accommodate it.
Will this work on a straight stitch machine where the needle is not adjustable left or right?
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
Can you hem jeans with these ?
Does this fold the fabric twice so the edge is hidden under
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
The link says it's no longer there, are these feet available anywhere? And are 9mm available??? Please.
From where I can order for brother machine?
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 😊
If want to buy 42 price foot presess in india Bangalore ? We're i can get this ?
hm ye gol ghere k liye use Karen to theek se gold ho jaayega
Nice video.... I want different feet but I live in Pakistan.... can u help me
fantastic video! thank you .. and may i just say I could listen to you speak for hours lol.
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.
Would have helped if you had used wider hem for tutorials. Would be easier to see.
that looks easier then the first.
Hi I love the video but your hand was in the way, could you change angle of camera!
I don't get it...Does it roll the hem 2 times or 1 time?
It folds the hem firstly to turn the raw edge upwards then again for a second turn to tuck the raw edge underneath so it's enclosed inside the stitching.
WHERE WOULD I PURCHASE ALL 3 PLEASE GOOD DEMO
The link for them is in the video description above. There's been quite the rush on them so we are temporarily out of stock on the largest size. Here's the link again for you - www.sewingbeefabrics.co.uk/product-category/sewing-accessories/sewing-machine-feet/
I am sorry I missed seeing the link. It would have been nice to receive them faster. my bad
Don't worry! At least you'll know where to go next time you want a new foot :D We have over 40 types and several coloured ones too. I'm sure they'll be a few shops wondering why there is a sudden rush on these feet lol
sandra dove I bought mine on Amazon for about $9 for all 3.
why don't you open and flatten the seam instead of stitching without the hem foot?
Because they were french seams, and therefore you can't open or flatten them, or they wouldn't be french seams...
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
I just cant get this right 😭