> That being said, my hand sewn gores suck (ok, *I* think they suck). I > prefer the pointy gores because it's my personal opinion (based on ZERO > objective or statistical evidence) that they were more common. And I'll > keep doing them that way until I get them right :) My major problem is > getting some sort of seam allowance on the body piece, but not the gore. > What this means is that I either wind up with a stress gap at the point, or > compression wrinkles (both of which I expect are prefectly period, but are > ideally wrong).
One way I'd try, which may or may not have been used, would be to press the seam allowance under for the godet and ladder stitch the point in first. That way you don't run out of seam allowance for the body part, and if the point was pressed afer clipping the godet seam allowance on the inside you could get a neat sharp point. The only thing is the eam allowance for body and godet would be in the same direction: pointing inwards. No idea if there is any evidence of this. I know I've used ladder stitch several times for my historical garb. michaela de bruce http://costumes.glittersweet.com -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.18/86 - Release Date: 31/08/2005 _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
