The hem allowance is the strip of fabric folded to the inside along a lower edge. It is usually wider than a seam allowance because the fold needs room to lie flat.
Like the seam allowance, it decides which line the contour of your file is. In PatternScan Pro the allowance can be set per edge, so the bottom edge can carry a wider hem allowance than the side seams.
Digitize sewing patterns without tracing.
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Photograph your paper pattern and get an automatically scaled digital version with PatternScan Pro.
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