How to hem silky fabric

If you want to give your silk garments a clean, precise finish, you’ve got several options: Serging, Stitching and Pinking, Double Zigzag Seam or Hand...

My favourite way to finish sheers and lightweight, delicate fabrics including silks is to do a zigzag on the folded finished hemline.Subscribe for more sewin...

If you take a moment to peer closely at chiffon, you'll notice how tightly knotted and twisted the woven threads look. This tiny weave is multiplied with silk or synthetic material, which ultimately creates the sheer, light quality of this beautiful fabric. Chiffon gives a touch of elegance to ...

Have you ever struggled with hemming lightweight or sheer fabrics? Did you think that you had to use a special rolled hem foot?This may be the tutorial you'...

In this post I continue my series of articles about working with 100% silk fabric. Now I would like to talk about different types of stitches and seams appropriate for natural silk fabric.

So, silk charmeuse is evil to hem, it’s slippery, it doesn’t take a crease (unless you accidentally press a crease where you don’t want one, then it stays forever). My hem is also…

Learn how to sew a narrow hem (easy even on chiffon) using a ban roll tape. You will like this video sewing tutorial on how to sew a rolled hem on chiffon without a special rolled hem foot.

Here’s an easy way to get a narrow hem on slippery or sheer fabrics using Ban-Rol.