➡️ See below for the raw edge version
The hanbok blouse is almost finished! Now we're tackling the hems to finish the garment off neatly.
- Turn the blouse inside out < hanbok > on its reverse side
- Facing finish: Make a 1 cm fold towards the inside at the bottom of the sleeves and iron to mark the fold
⚠️ The sleeves of the < hanbok > blouse are dramatically long: they cover part of your hands and are also very flared. If you wish, you can very well shorten your sleeves a little to the desired length. Also, we advise you to always do a fitting before marking the folds of your hems, to make sure that the 2 sleeves are symmetrical (it may be that you did not sew / cut perfectly straight earlier and therefore there is a difference in length between the 2 sleeves).
- Fold back 1 cm inwards, iron and pin all the way, always taking care to respect the direction of the seam allowances (lying towards the back). By folding the bottom of our sleeves twice, we obtain what is called in sewing, a double hem.
- Sew the two double hems obtained 0.7 cm from the edge, still using a straight stitch, starting at the sleeve seam and going all the way around. Don't forget to start and finish with a backstitch.
- Iron everything to flatten the seams well.
➡️ For the raw edge version, you obviously don't need to hem it!
- Raw edge finishing: simply sew the bottom of your sleeves 1 cm from the edge, using a straight stitch, remembering to make a backstitch at the beginning and end. This will prevent the fabric from fraying beyond our stitching.
