The Making of a Greenland Gown: Page 3

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Setting the Center Gores

I got a little ahead of myself and sewed up the center seam on the back gore before I took any pictures of it.

Here I am laying the gore on top of the folded fabric to mark the length of the slit.

I laid the fabric right side up. The gore is turned right side down and laid out with the LEFT edge of the gore aligned with the RIGHT edge of the slit. I stiched the straight seam almost to the top.

First of all, I apologize for the poor quality of this image. For some reason I screwed up when editing the photos and I made it too small. When I increase the size to make it easily visible it gets quite grainy.

Hopefully you can still see what I did. I folded the stitched part of the gown over so that the gore is facing right side down, on top of the left side of the panel. This time the RIGHT edge of the gore is aligned with the LEFT edge of the slit. Again, I stitched the straight seam almost to the top.

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Here is the best way I've figured out to pin the point. The entire panel is laid out flat, right side down. I have to stand the seam up in a sort of a ridge. I find it helpful to pin both sides of the point and sew all the way around.

And here is what it looked like after I stitched around. I usually wind up sewing this part several times, ripping out a few stitches, and resewing small segments.

This is the gore point on the front panel. I believe that the center seam in the back gore make it more difficult to set the point well. Or it could just be that the second one went better.