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If you wonder why Sat Chat is late, it’s cuz I’ve been hemming dresses all day…
…and seamstresses/tailors deserve every penny they make! Hi friends! I decided I would start the prom dress hemming today. I rarely sew garments and almost never work with silky material so I know this project was going to take longer than I expected. I only got one dress done. It as Maizy’s and it had a stiff plastic interfacing in the hem to keep the dress flared out so I didn’t want to remove it as it seemed important to the structure. I could not find a single tutorial on hemming a gown like that but I was hoping I could just roll it up and stitch it. I ended up using the invisible catch stich from this tutorial and it worked so well. I swear that gown is so full there must have been 20 feet of hemming by hand LOL! It took hours! I thought I’d mention it incase anyone else is hemming prom dresses this weekend and has encountered that weird interfacing. I hemmed the lining on my machine and it’s fine. Well, it’s nothing to write home about but you can’t really see it LOL! I will tackle Lila’s dress tomorrow. I need to take off 2″ and do a rolled hem so I need to take another class on YouTube University on how to use my rolled hem presser foot and practice on some scraps as I think it might be less forgiving than the the hems today. I am not a fan of satin, it is so slippery. If you have any tips please let me know in comments. 🙂
Some of the stuff I mentioned:
The free class I taught live on Wednesday for Michaels & Derwent is up now
Funny song parody: Menopause Rhapsody (hilarious and very clever!)
The nifty travel palette I mentioned with spam cans was made by Bill Kilpatrick
Oh! One more thing, A few of you asked when the Simply Cards and Papercraft magazine would be out in bookstores and a viewer spotted them at Barnes & Noble. It’s issue 216. I was at JoAnn Fabrics 2 weeks ago and they had 215 out so it might be there too by now. That’s all for today. Sewing is very tiring. Til next time happy crafting!
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