So I've finally decided I need to do something about my appalling hems. I'm talking about getting them level, not actually sewing them. Especially on dresses with large volumes of skirt (I'm rather fond of large volumes of skirt) that are floor length or longer. For instance, houppelandes or cotehardies with 6m or more hems.
My dress dummy has a hem marker thingy, but it is not wide enough for such skirts. Mostly I try to find the shortest seam and trim round in line with that, which doesn't always work very well. Last time, with a kirtle with a 7m hem I tried hanging it up on a coathanger in a doorway, but the skirt basically just fell into a set of narrow folds, which still made it very difficult to judge what was level with what. There are probably some really simple solutions that I haven't thought of, but do the list persons have any tips about getting long hems level? Claire/Angharad _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
