Sewing a tiered hem onto a top: It's so easy to look cool!

Sew a ruffled hem onto a top: With a shirt with a ruffled hem, you can easily create a cool layered look! All you need are jersey scraps in your favorite color!

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Sew a ruffled hem onto a top

Jersey and sweatshirt fabric scraps? Here you go! With this cool sewing trick, you can casually lengthen your shirts and give them a great layered look! If you can also work with your favorite jersey scraps at the same time: Ideal! By the way, this tutorial is also great for my favorite material: French Terry. Find out everything you need to know about sewing with French Terry in my blog post! Great hem option: Here I'm wearing the oversized shirt Selma made from a beautiful French Terry.^* The pleasant fabric is available in one of my favorite color combinations in Aubergine with Cranes^*. Fun fact: The cross motif of the shirt is repeated in the ruffled hem, emphasizing the layered look.

What you need for sewing

• Ruler^*
• Sewing thread^*
• Jersey needle^*
• Twin needle 4 mm^*
• Sewing machine or overlocker
• Pins^*
• alternative: Fabric clips^*
• Fabric scissors^*

Instructions: Sew a ruffled hem

Prepare the top as usual, but do not hem it yet. Determine the width of the shirt on the unhemmed shirt. For the fabric strip, choose, for example, a contrasting fabric of the same fabric type/quality that you also used to sew the shirt. The front and back pieces are often different widths. Take the width and add 2x the width of your overlocker seam. Example: For my oversized shirt in size 42, that's 72.4 cm at the front and 78.9 cm at the back. Cut two fabric strips:

For the front piece, take a strip 10 cm high in the calculated width.

For the back piece, your fabric strip is 12 cm high.

Fold the fabric strips lengthwise and close the short sides with the overlocker or the overlock stitch on your sewing machine. This is what it should look like now: Turn and iron the two hem strips. Fold the short sides together to mark the center of the strips. Pin the center of the strips to the center of the front and back pieces. At the side seam, the hem strips should meet end-to-end. Sew the hem strips all around onto the shirt with an overlocker or sewing machine (stretch stitch).Iron the seam allowance up and topstitch it with a twin needle. If you haven't sewn with the twin needle yet, be sure to also read my tips on sewing with the twin needle! By the way, you can easily spruce up all yourfavorite shirts with this method! Would you like to create such a cool shirt with a ruffled hem now? Then grab SELMA and get started! Of course, you can also use the technique great for jersey fabrics. Happy simple sewing, your Sabine