hi I'm Jennifer Sutton with window valance patterns calm and I'm going to show you how to sew blind hem stitch when you don't want to see the stitching on the front of your fabric a blind hem stitch is the perfect alternative it's very easy I'm going to show you how to do it right now fold and press your hem and then take it to your sewing machine for a blind hem stitch you're going to need a blind hem foot so if you don't have one you're going to need one for your sewing machine each sewing machine brandon type has its own feet so you'll need to find yours this is a blind hem foot for my Bernina and it has a metal piece here in between the foot that's a guide for the folded edge of my hem and that's going to make more sense here just a moment so we'll put this on my machine I'm going to show you how to use this to create a blind hem stitch start out with your fabric laying right side down and the hem up pointing towards your sewing machine foot take your hem and you're going to fold it underneath towards the right side of the fabric like this and you want to leave about a quarter of an inch of the hem still being revealed here slide your hem underneath the blind hem foot so that this will do edge let's begin this middle piece right here set your machine to the blind hem stitch and then you can start stitching this hem in place what the blind hem stitch will do is sew a straight stitch along this folded edge here and then every 2 or 3 stitches do a zig-zag stitch and catch just the folded edge over here so you want your setting so that when the needle swings over it just catches its folded edge here and the straight stitching is along this folded edge here and this is what the blind hem stitch looks like and now when you unfold that hem you're going to see that this kind of stitching along the top folded edge of the hem but when you look on the front side of your drapery panel you're just going to see this ticking and that's it now I use thread that matched this green of this fabric you wouldn't even see this stitching here I purposely use the red threads that you could see it for example purposes on this video but normally you would use the same type of thread that matches best for your face fabric and you wouldn't even see this this tacking here let me show you the back part one more time and the front part just has this little tacking going all the way across and that's your blind hem stitch