I was so so excited to try this tutorial on using a blind hem foot on the serger that I attempted it on a weeknight!

The fabric is a GOTS 100% certified organic cotton from fabric.com. Since I prewash all my fabric the moment it arrives, I’m able to pull it out to sew when I get the time.

I used the same pattern that I drafted for the pink crab pants, cutting the legs a tiny bit shorter than pant length. Zip, one seam done. And oh my god, it was the wrong side of the fabric already. I decided to keep going since this was going to be an evening of learning. In no time flat, I had the rest of the shorts done.

• 18″ elastic
• Zigzagged waistband on size 1.5 stitch length

Then I read the manual for my Brother 1034D overlocker (serger) to figure out the single needle, three thread set up. This serger is so fast to thread! I love it. The tutorial had recommended tension settings for the same machine. But, my sample seams would not flip easily. I ended up with the following tension settings:

• Left needle: 0
• Upper looper: 7
• Lower looper: 2

And voila! Shorties!

The leg hems should lay flatter after a wash. Or an iron, but I hate ironing. The most time consuming part of this project was folding and pinning the leg cuffs so that I could blind hem them. I refused to pull out the iron. And since I already sewed the legs, they had to be sewn in circles. There was a funny mishap where I nearly sewed a pin into the leg hem and had to do a bit of pushing a pin around mid-serge to retrieve it. I’m just glad I realized before I closed the cuff.

Anyway, now I know how to use a blind hem foot! And, I have a pair of adorable, perfect fit, wrong side of the fabric shorts! With how fast toddlers grow and how many times we change clothes for mud, paint, and food, they’ll only last a month anyway.