Tuesday, February 28, 2012

How To Sew A Baby Hem On Delicate Fabrics

I needed this technique for my latest dress refashion:

Thrifted dress ($2) - I removed the extremely pouffy sleeves, cut off about 6 inches of length, and then used the baby hem technique to sew both the arm holes and the new hem.

Here's how I do a baby hem:


front side

2 comments:

Lady Demelza said...

Aha! This strikes me as a very useful technique. I'm sure I'll have use for it sometime - those fine fabrics are so slippery! Thanks for this - I have stashed it safely in my mental 'bag of tricks.'

Jenni said...

Your hem looks great! Thanks for teaching the technique!
Jenni EOD