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I could probably make something like this from the box of scraps I keep in the cave. I have kluged similar, but this makes me deeply happy in a 'put your foot there - boom! process sewing measuring weird job site way.
https://www.wawak.com/cutting-measuring/marking-chalk-pens/marking-tools/plastic-pants-marker-15/#sku=ta1009
But let's look at the project that brought me to this page
Pal is a bridesmaid in September. Dress needs hemming. Needs to hang out to be hemmed.
Side note: this is a dress that will get worn twice at most. The poly satin isn't nasty, it's cut on grain, but this dress at this length and color isn't going to hang long enough to deform that hem. So letting it hang out is relative overkill. But the dress form can't be adjusted taller, so it needs to be made taller. And let the shirt drape.
Nothing else worked.
After letting it hang for a day, a thing started happening.
One side of the center back skirt seam started puckering (helpful finger pointing it out so you cannot unsee it)(she doesn't read this blog)(it's going to be fine). NO, I am not undoing it as I know I would be unleashing the hounds of off grain hell and you can't put that back. It's not heavy enough satin.
Took that right off the mannequin.
It was determined that the hem was consistent, so I went with the 'stitch the hem edge' plan. Marked the stitching line from the needle on the arm with blue tape and did my level best to be consistent.
I did double check to see if the curve was consistent with the floor, used the laser* picture framing level and it was a pleasing shape so I moved forward.
Folded almost a quarter inch from the stitching.
Sewed it and trimmed right up to it.
And folded it again on the stitching line.
And it's okay. I did have some tricky hand sewing work getting the lining to match up on the open seam at the side to the other side, and I left the hem open enough to fool around with it to make it hang straight. Putting a weight in it would be overkill.
