KNITorious Sew A Long Day 4

Day 4! Last day before big finished product reveal! Congrats on making it this far!

I realize I could have shortened this to probably one less day, but with learning some new things, I thought that a day longer couldn't hurt.

And so on this our final sewing day, I bring you the bottom hem. The pattern calls for a rolled hem. So if you're keen on that, then definitely go ahead and do that. I see the appeal but I wanted to show my favorite way to hem my knits, in case you haven't seen it before. My favorite: The Blind Hem!
I promise, if you don't already use this, you will! It's fab!

I'm going to talk through this, but there is also a good video for it HERE

Okay, so first we're going to take our hem and fold it back. I usually do maybe an inch to 1 1/2 inches. You're working with your fabric right side up and folding the hem so right sides are together

 Then take that piece that you folded and fold it back towards the edge. So now you're folding wrong sides together and the folded piece will be half what it was originally.

 You can now pic or clip it or be like me and just wing it the whole way around.

 I use my serger with the knife on and just serge the whole edge like this

 This is what the back of the hem looks like. You'll see that it tends to fold up towards the right side of the garment now. You can iron it to get it to lay flatter.

 Or instead of ironing you can sew it down! I hate ironing so I would rather do one extra step than iron anything. I suck at ironing. Not one of my skills.
So I get out my trusty twin stretch needle!

 and I move to my sewing machine.Twin needles need two threads so I hook one to where the bobbin winder is on my Brother.

 I also make sure my machine is set for two needles and I like to use a little bit longer stitch. The twin needle is a bit stretchy by nature, not SUPER stretchy, but until I can get a coverstitch machine, this will do!

 I hold the hem down, pushing the serged seam up in the back and I sew my twin stitch right on top of it

You will end up with a very professional looking hem! There are TONS of different ways to hem, so I look forward to seeing what you guys choose in your pics! Just post your hem pics today and tomorrow we'll post finished products! I'd love to see modeled pics tomorrow, I'll be trying to get my 3 year old to cooperate!

Thanks guys!