Originally Posted by blackberryhill1
I am mostly a lurker but now I need some advice. I recently purchased an evening pants outfit to wear to a wedding next weekend. The pants are 4 inches too long. Although I am an expereinced sewer, I have never sewn on georgette so am very apprehensive about cutting and hemming the pants. Are there tricks I should know about georgette? I think it might ravel - if so what to do etc. Should I hand stich the hem or can I machine stitch it? etc.
Thank you for any advice you can give me.
You can hem gorgette on the machine- if you have a hemmer foot, it will do it all in one step. If you don't, I would turn under a 1/8" to 1/4" on the machine, then do a very small hem by hand. If you have time, it will be very pretty like that. If you are running out of time, you can probably do it by machine, as long as you have matching thread. You could do a running stitch or a very small zigzag along the edge before you turn it under.