Sewing Glossary: Three Useful Hem Techniques
Premium Cameron Pattern decorated with Hemstitch Embroidery
Continuing on from How To Sew Your Most Essential Four Pockets and How To Sew Your Most Essential Four Collars article, here are three most useful hem tutorials you might appreciate in one place.
Simply click on the links below to either go straight to the hem tutorial or try out any of our free patterns below to practice these skills.
Let us know in the comments below if this is useful to you and we can make similar collections of tutorials on sleeves, pleats, neck lines etc.
Basic Drawn Thread Work Hand Embroidery
Hemstitch (Basic Drawn Thread Work Hand Embroidery)
Click HERE for Hemstitch tutorial.
Here is Nayila Wright’s Review of our Premium Cameron Pattern using hemstitch to decorate the dress.
Premium Cameron Pattern decorated with Hemstitch
How to Sew a Baby Hem
HERE is a handy how to tutorial on how to sew a baby hem, a technique primarily used whilst handling light weight fabric.
Baby hem in action
How to Hem A Curved Edge
Click HERE for how to hem a curved edge tutorial.
If you would like to try our free multi-sized printable Anca High Low Hem Pattern here is the step by step tutorial on how to make it.
Curved Hem on Anca Free Pattern
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4 Comments
Janet Baker
For most of the tutorials I’ve tried to use on this site, I end up googling the topic on Youtube instead, because It is difficult to see what is being demonstrated here due to the absence of contrasting thread (to show a stitching line or other stitching technique) and/or the absence of contrasting right and wrong side, both standards for experienced Youtube tutorials.
Lorraine Theroux
Very helpful – and some of the techniques are not standard ones!
Patty Nouraie
I just now read through the tutorials. Please keep doing this. They are so helpful! And, of course, I love sewing with all your fabrics. ?
Metra Christofferson
Please do continue the series! They are helpful always, and a great reference.