Blind hem on your sewing machine

Sewing a blind hem, it was always a thing for me, however unjustified that may seem :-).
I already did several projects by hand, but sometimes it just has to go a lot faster with a neat result.
So time to get out my sewing machine, together with the blind hem foot, and just get on with it.
And in doing so, I like to take you along on my journey of discovery and show you how easy it turned out.

Requirements

-sewing machine
-blind hem stitch foot
-your sewing project for doing a blind hem
-matching thread

I worked with my BERNINA 480 and Blindstitch Foot #5

Blindstitch Foot #5

For sewing invisible hems ✓ Barely visible stitching on the front ✓ For 5.5 mm and 9 mm machines ✓

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BERNINA 480

The B 480 is made for all sewers and hobby tailors who love beautiful design but also sophisticated automatic features. A brilliantly simple machine.

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My project and tips

I sewed summer pants from a beautiful linen/viscose fabric, one that actually calls for a blind hem.
A stitch you can hardly see on the outside of your hem and yet your hem is still neatly attached.

Step 1

First, I neatly finished the hem of my pants with the overlocker.
I use my beloved BERNINA L 890 for this 🙂

BERNINA L 890

The L 890 is perfectly suited for working with all types of fabrics, including knits as well as wovens. With One-Step BERNINA Air Threader ✓ Intuitive operation via touch screen ✓ Fast, precise & quiet ✓ Manufactured by BERNINA ✓ 100% designed and engineered in Switzerland ✓

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Step 2

Then I ironed my 4cm hem allowance into place.
My pant leg is inside out.

Step 3

Now we are going to fold our hem in place & pin it before we start hemming with the sewing machine.

To do this, we will fold our entire hem (we will keep the hemline pressed in) toward the inside of the pants.

A new fold forms that way and it should be 1cm from the locked edge of our pant hem.

Time to pin this new fold in place, all around, 1cm from the overlocked edge.
Since there is a lot of slack on the fabric, and it shifts easily, I use a lot of pins for this 😉

Detailed picture of the pinned hem:

Sewing machine time 🙂
Meanwhile, I installed blind hem foot #5 and selected stitch 9 to start blind hemming.

To start sewing the hem, I place the pinned fold against the guide plate of the presser foot and then sew the hem all around.

When I’ve gone all the way around, it looks like this:

Every so often the stitch has a little stitch sewn into the fold.
That way the hem is attached, but you can barely see it on the outside of the hem.

And this is what the hem edge looks like on the inside when the hem is ironed in place.

And on the outside the hem looks so neat, you (almost) don’t see that there are stitches in it, super happy with it.
The only little stitches you see are in the black part of the fabric, because I worked with a light thread ;-).