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Posted on: 5/13/07 2:11 AM ET
I've just finished my first gored dress with godets. I'm making progress and my godets look fine from the right side, but I find they leave a bit to be desired on the inside of the garment (okay, so I tend to be a bit of a perfectionist, but I'd like the inside of my garment to look as professional as the outside). I have several more garments godets on my agenda and I'd like to get the "right" technique down before I cut into any cherished fabrics, kwim?

Does anyone have tips for sewing godets?...in particular how to get the apex of the point to look/lay really nice on both the right and back side?

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Posted on: 5/13/07 2:21 AM ET
I usually sew the godet to one side and then sew the next panel to the panel/godet as one continuous seam. I don't remember the inside looking bad.
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Posted on: 5/13/07 8:48 AM ET
Congrats on the dress! Luckily, no one but you will be inspecting the inside, I'm sure. (Unless your children have started sewing as well? )

Check out these tips:
Sewing to a point, which I wrote when doing my wedding dress
godets and gussets, which Marji recently wrote.

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Posted on: 5/13/07 8:55 AM ET
I do what Sherril does, first attach one side of the godet to each panel then sew the resulting units together. You will need to mark the stitching lines carefully at the top point of the godet if the garment needs to fit just so. For fuller skirts I just wing it and sew by eye.
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Posted on: 5/13/07 9:02 AM ET
Precise marking, and then pressing well are also key to getting godets to look good.
As long as all your godets are contained along seamlines, what Sherrill and Liz do works really well.
If you are inserting godets where there is no seam check out the tip I wrote that Anne already linked to - and be sure to look at the pic as it makes clear the text instructions.
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Posted on: 5/13/07 9:07 AM ET
In reply to AnneM
Thanks Anne. I pretty much sewed mine in the way you (and Sherril) described, but I still found situating the fabric layers at the very tip of the godet when sewing the second side a little tricky. So my godets look just a bit sloppy in the back, especially after topstitching...they look fine on the outside of the garment. I'm thinking may I shoud review my notes on making a perfect point in a shoulder yoke...I was trying to call them from memory as I sewed, but I just have this nagging feeling that I'm missing/forgetting something (like I initially forgot to stop sewing before I reached the top on the first side so I didn't sew into the SA of the second side!)

Interestingly enough, I was studying a couple RTW garments I have that have godets sewn into them. On one garment, on the wrong side the tips of the godet SA are trimmed off, on the other they are intact. Also, on the trimmed garment they some how managed to serge the SA together up to the point of the godet and the SA above the point of the godet is pressed open (this is a gored dress with godets sewn between the goreds)...I'm still pondering how that dress was constructed.
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Posted on: 5/13/07 9:12 AM ET
Hhhmmm, so maybe then it's just an issue of practice for me?
  
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