These are the top tips for cutting out your fabric that we share when you join a sewing workshop at Thread Den. Doing a great job of cutting out all your pattern pieces before you even start sewing will help the rest of your project go smoothly.
- Keep the shears and fabric as close to the tabletop as possible. Keep your fabric flat, do not lift it up or off the table to access it. You can scootch your shears along the tabletop (keeping the lower blade touching the tabletop).
- Keep your shears straight.
- Take long cuts.
- Peel the fabric of the cutout pattern pieces out of your way as you cut.
- Keep the pattern pieces on the left of your shears (if right-handed).
- Use lovely sharp fabric shears.
- When snipping in your notches, never cut them deeper than the seam allowance. 5mm or less is about right.
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