Between 15-20 years ago, I remember seeing a program on TV on a local PBS station that talked about the hand-rolled hem. She told us to remember the #11 and to stitch to show like a #11 it in such a way that when you pulled the thread, that stitch would then "automatically" tuck in the material and, in effect, roll the hem itself. I tried it at the time and I remember it worked perfectly. I wrote down how to do it back then but I didn't really not comprehensive enough since I've never been able to do this again.
I've searched off and on throughout the years on the net but I've never found anything quite like this stitch except for one small reference in a book called The Art of Manipulating Fabric (p. 46:
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Take a 1/4" (6mm) stitch in the hem allowance just below the turn.
Moving straight down, pick up one or two threads of the fabric just below the hemline.
Moving straight up, take another 1/4" (6mm) stitch in the hem allowance below the turn.
Contine for 1" (2.5cm).
Stopping after a stitch below the turn, (c) pull the thread taut to roll the hem, and resume stitching."
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unfortunately, the instructions aren't enough here either and the line drawing are really very inadequate. I'm missing something in the steps because when I pull the thread, I just don't get the nice, smooth rolled hem like I remember doing and the stitches don't end up so neatly "invisible".
I know it'll be easy once I know the exact procedure but none of the real, so-called rolled hems I've found on google results are done by hand nor do they "roll themselves" like the "11-stitch" the program showed me all those years ago.
Does anyone know where there are good diagrams or a video showing how to do this? I've given up on this 4th or 5th search session in last
8-9 years .Thanks.