taking up a biased cut dress

tingly | 12:08 Sun 27th Jan 2008 | Home & Garden

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hello, is it possible to take up a dress cut on the bias, or will it then fall wrongly?

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Robinia

If you try to turn up a deep hem then yes, it will fall badly.
I wouldn't like to go deeper than about 1 cm.
you need to cut off the excess leaving about one & half centimetres below your req'd hem length to turn up - half a cm turned & ironed first & then a further cm turned to enclose the raw edge (unless of course you have an overlocking machine in which case you can make a smaller hem)
hope that makes sense!

tingly

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thankyou so much. about 4 inches need to come off it, and as i am less than basic, think i better return it to the shop. thanks again for your advice, it'll save me 50 pounds

cheers
tingly

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