People often ask me how to alter the Briar pattern to look more like a regular tee – well guess what. IT IS SO EASY!
I’ve made myself two straight hem Briar crop tops this summer, but the exact same pattern alteration is required for a standard length tshirt.
Here’s what you do
For the crop top version redraw the hemline as shown. You can now either leave the edges raw (as i did) or you can turn under 1/2″ and topstitch using either a zig zag stitch on your sewing machine or a serger/overlocker
For the tshirt version redraw the hemline as shown. You can now either leave the edges raw (as i did for my crop tops) or you can turn under 1/2″ and topstitch using either a zig zag stitch on your sewing machine or a serger/overlocker
That’s literally it! How easy is that?!
[SHOP// Megan Nielsen Briar sewing pattern]
Why have you chosen to redraw the hem lower than the CF is already? I have the briar pattern and was thinking of hacking it into a straight hem, but I was just going to use the CF length as the new length all around?
You could definitely give it a straight hem at the CF instead! I just showed it this way as an example of how you could do it – mainly just based off the crop tops i made which i made a little longer than normal just for something different. You can definitely hem straight across at whichever point you’d like! Meg XO
Thanks!