At 11:02 01/02/2008, you wrote:
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
Have you tried finishing the hem then levelling the skirt from the top/waist?
When I levelled the 8 yard hem of my houppelande, which is slightly
longer than floor at the front, and trained at the back, I didn't
worry about it being level, except at the seams, as no-one is going
to go round that with a tape measure to check it.
Suzi
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