Pretty it up with lettuce edging

How cute does lettuce edging look on the hem or sleeve cuff of a little girls top! It's easy to do with your overlocker and a bit of woolly nylon. Every overlocker is different but these are the steps that I take with my Janome

Step 1. Remove left needle

Step 2. Disengage cutting knife and change setting to R for rolled hem.

Step 3. Make sure you have a woolly nylon thread in your upper looper and regular poly thread in the right needle and lower looper.

Step 4. Change your upper looper thread tension to it's loosest setting, mine is 0.

Step 5. Change your stitch width to R for rolled hem...sometimes I shift it to past the rolled hem to 1 if I want a really close stitched rolled hem, it will depend on your fabric. It's always a good idea to do a few samples and see how you like it before you do the final hem on your garment.

Step 6. Change your differential feed to the woven setting, mine is 0.7 to 1.5 and this will help stretch out the knitted fabric.

Step 7. Begin edging your hem remembering to stretch the fabric as you go. Double knit fabrics give the best rolled hem as it doesn't curl back up on itself like a single knit. I make sure I'm giving the thread enough fabric to roll over as well, a good couple of millimetres, this gives you a plumper rolled edge that sits better.

Step 8. If you are doing around the entire hem of a t-shirt for example, when you get close to where you started, stop and trim off the hanging thread from where you began and then run the rolled hem straight over the join to make sure it won't come undone.

Step 9. Trim your threads and finish it off......I always give it a generous tail and then very carefully with my handy dandy unpicker untangle the tail threads. You'll notice that the upper and lower looper threads will be longer that the needle threads. Gently pull these to tighten and then tie these two threads together in a double knot. Then thread them into a needle and sew them back through the hem.

All done!! A lovely neat rolled hem :-)