with super simple things! whats up!?!?
ugh
hems & casings hems & casings
folding under, folding under...sewing sewing, & get almost to the starting point & see that I have a weird crinkle, or wrinkle going on...I can't explain it..but it's like the fabric folded over *again*!!
I am pressing it down before I pin...
should I be sewing 1/4 from the end first THEN turn it in again & sew down?
I think I am having a bad sewing day/days lateley

What kind of garment are you working on? On the hem for example, if the bottom is larger in diameter (say on a circle skirt, where the widest part is the very bottom), when you turn it up you can get puckers. If you have a serger, you can serge the bottom edge with the differential feed turned to slightly gather, and make them both the same size eliminating puckers. If you don't have a serger, you can run a basting stitch, then pull it slightly and that should help.

What Jayme said; also, if you are folding under a long length, and you tend to pull the turned part taut to sew it down, you can end up stretching it and stretching it, just a smidge, but after awhile, you will have the grain out of whack, and there is a fold. To fix it, just keep an eye on how you are folding up, and make sure you are folding straight over, grain on grain, and you shouldn't have a problem.


HTH!

Murali

Working w/Woven no serger (yet lol)
I think maybe I *am* pulling it ! Plus the wide bottom I never realized that! *duh*
I am having a problem too on the casing of peasant tops/dresses..maybe because it's curved...I can usually hide it because once the elasic is in its all ruffled/gathered looking anyway..but I know it's there & I want to do it right! LOL & it's a hit or miss..sometimes I get it perfect..sometimes not & I have no clue what I am doing different! LOL

I would like to know how to avoid the pucker in peasant top casings, too.