How To Cut A Sewing Pattern

You are technically supposed to iron your pattern pieces but I dont. When cutting out paper patterns use a sharp pair of scissors.

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Find the long grain line on the pattern piecea long arrow and make sure that this is straight and on the grain of the fabric.

How to cut a sewing pattern. That way when you cut out your pieces they are taped together at all of the joining ends. I can show you how to make the folds in the pattern if you click on the highlighted link. And if any of your pieces are extra large put some tape throughout the middles of the pages to help stabilize the pattern piece.

Cut in even clean strokes. This is a universal pining and cutting method for all your patterns. That way you have the other sizes too.

Folding the fabric for cutting Generally the fabric is folded lengthwise matching the selvages. When pulling out the pattern pieces it can be very ove. I recommend that you do this more carefully than I did On the curve where its impossible to fold exactly along the black line for my size I snip into the pattern to the line in a few places using paper scissors of course--not the fabric ones I may be holding at the time.

This will straighten out your edges and help you find the grainline correctly. Sometimes you find that the pattern pieces are too wide to fit on the fabric which is folded lengthwise. How To Cut Out A Sewing Pattern.

After all even if we make a mistake we can easily get some more paper and start over. In order to sew more complicated projects its important to know how to cut out a commercial pattern. To transfer the pattern notches to your fabric mark the notches by cutting an extra section out of the fabric to avoid snipping into your seam allowance.