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.
I used to do wedding garments. I found the best way is to stitch a1/4" seam with a little longer stitch. Then press the first 1/4" up at the thread line. Next, press that 1/4" up again and hand stitch catching the threads from your seam.
I have done machine hemming when there is lots of material or very little time but expeience has shown me that hand hemming is much prettier and you don't have that much to hem.