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[eggies_red_dres]

This is process shots of a first try at hemming chiffon using a prepared buckram as a stabilizer

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[eggies_red_dres]

I have quite the collection of Sheer Magic and similar handed fabrics. I love them, adore them, and think they would look amazing on lots of things, and then I sew them and it looks like a pile of worms all over the table.

I found this somewhere else out there in the intertubes, but had to try it. And that's on a curved hem! I was amazed and very pleased.

[ritsa_nicole]

Wow, great trick. Thank you!

[eggies_red_dres]

I used it with an antique singer only a bit newer than the one in your icon, so it works!

[kirathaune]

Awesome job!! I will definitely file that in my bag of tricks.

Thanks for sharing!

[eggies_red_dres]

It makes some ideas in my head possible. There is still other issues with handling, but I WON'T LET IT STOP ME! :D

[curiouschilde]

Thats really really awesome. I remember letting down a hem in a vintage 50's dress and there was a paper tape in the hem.. possibly for a similar reason. I was never really sure. Thank you for sharing this.. Awesome!!

[eggies_red_dres]

I forgot to mention, that when you remove the buckram, this is a reusable trick hem. Paper tape eh? Never ceases to surprise, there was talk of paper in bias around corset binding too.

[thenisaid]

For a washable chiffon, spray starch can also give you some control.

[thenisaid]

But forgot to say, this is a cool, clever trick. Woot!

Lordy, I just said, 'woot".

[eggies_red_dres]

It's hard not to be excited, right? ;-)