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Summary: When sewing the second Euro hem, back stitch over double seams to reinforce the hem. Sew a Euro hem with tips from a seamstress in this free sewing video.
Lenee Alexander has been sewing since she was nine years old. When her mother left the sewing machine on their kitchen table, and when her mother wasn't sewing, Alexander was. She...read more
"Okay, so what we're going to do now is go ahead and sew right along this side. And you'll notice I flipped these pants out again, and that's only so you can get a really good look at what I'm doing, you don't have to flip it out. I'm just going to get right to it, since you've already seen the first leg. I'm going to start at my seam like I always like to. You want back tacking. And don't run over your pinnings, because that'll break your needle, that's just really annoying to have to stop and do that. There we go, okay. And, I like to take out my pins as I go, just because they're, it's the way where they are. Okay. And here I am coming upon this big chunky part. I'm going to grab my hammer right here, I'm just going to go ahead and smash it down. And like I said, you don't have to do that, but I find that it helps a whole lot, because it's so thick sometimes, it's just ridiculous. Okay, here I come, up here, this is the real tricky part of sewing this, is that big thick area; move it back up. And I'm going to use my hand wheel over here, to turn the needle. And I like doing that because I know it catches the thread on the bottom of it, for sure. Okay, here we go. Now we're going to, we got to just run this one little side on the back part of the leg and we're done. Okay. Okay, here we are right here where we started. And remember to back tack right here when we're done, you don't want it coming apart. And I think I'm going to go back over to this area. And this might happen to you too, like if you just feel like you didn't get it very good, I'm going to go back over it, just because sewing is like that, sometimes you just got to redo something or just get something a little bit better. Okay. Okay now I feel way more confident that I have it good, so. Now if you have to do that, that's okay. Like I said, that's part of sewing. Sometimes you have to take it out and redo it. But not this time, so. Alright, so I'm going to show you how to press it. And then we're going to get to how you trim it off and tack it up if you have too much fabric."
eHow Article: Sewing 2nd Euro Hem