How to Straighten Fabric for Quilting
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- Опубликовано: 15 авг 2017
- Learn how to straighten your fabric using your ruler so that you will get straight cuts. Before you can start cutting your fabric for your project, you need to straighten the end of the fabric so your cuts will be nice and straight. Kim explains how to square up your fabric in this video.
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Very helpful, thanks!
Thank you so much for this easy to follow instructions on how to square up fabric, I finally get it!
Wonderful!
Finally! A video that explains this perfectly! Thank you, thank you!!
This video was very helpful! Thank you 😊
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much this worked for me, my life just got way easier !
Thank you!! The two ruler thing! Yes, brilliant!
Thank you so much for this video. I just wish I'd seen it months ago. I can't count the amount of times I've tried to square my fabric up just watching it get smaller and smaller each time I trim bits off. I'm going to put this into practice right now. Thanks again. I've just subscribed so I'm looking forward to getting some more ideas like this in the future. Elaine x
You're very welcome, Elaine. I can imagine how frustrated you must've been! Thanks for watching.
It was explained perfectly, my fabric is straight for a change.
Glad to hear that you found the video helpful, Susan.
THANK YOU for this!
This is brilliant!!! Tnx u sooo much!!!!
Thank you Kim for another very informative tutorial.
You're welcome, Alice. :)
Great tips!
Thank you Kim 🧡
I do a similar thing with 3 yds of fabric when dressmaking. I stand on the landing and hang the whole 3 yds down over my stairwell, selvedge to selvedge and adjust up and down until I see the edges aligned at the bottom. Works every time.
This is so helpful. Thank you!
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Excellent! Thank you!
You are welcome!
Fantastic nice to verify the basics. Thanks Kim
Thanks, Rob, I do find that some people still need help with the basics, although we tend to forget this once we know them. A reminder is good sometimes too ;)
Oh wow. That's 4 layers!!!!
Thank you!
You're welcome!
thank you this was excellent oh if i had seen this before so much waste of fabric
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you! 8-)
You're welcome, Sherri.
Hi Kim, great info, thank you! I have a question about yardage. When you first start out, matching your selvages, what do you do if you have a 108" wide piece that is maybe 6 or 7 yards long (think quilt backing)? Or even just a piece that's 2-3 yards? I find laying them down on the floor (right after a good vacuuming) is helpful, but it's still pretty tedious getting it all matched up. Pre-washing seems to exacerbate the issue...
That's a good question, Karin! First, I haven't actually had that much fabric all in one piece, so this is just a suggestions, but it should work. Yes, probably the only place big enough to lay out this amount of fabric would be the floor. I would suggest only working with about a yard width of fabric along the selvages - about as much as you can hold with your two hands, as I do in the video. It can help to support the remaining amount of fabric, maybe on a chair, just so it doesn't drag down the fabric you're working with. I would get this smaller amount straightened up and then lay it down on the floor and pin the fabric along the selvage to hold it. You can then lay it down and move to the next part, working your way along a little bit at a time. Hopefully this will work for you. Let me know how it goes.
Chatterboxquilts that's pretty much what I do, but I get help from hubby and the dog. Thanks!!
I do that, shift around and around. So I iron. Still have problems
I knew there was a way to straighten fabric by shuffling along the selvedge ends, but almost all videos here wanted to rip the fabric and/or pluck out a thread from the grain. I’ve always hated the idea of ripping the fabric because I’m afraid of it tearing through the side threads unnecessarily, and I can never pull out more than an inch or two of thread on tightly woven fabric! Thank you for this tutorial. Does this work if the selvedge edges are also crooked, anyone know?
The selvages will be straight-ish. I usually match them up as best I can - in some places they will match perfectly and in others, they might be a bit off.
Can you show how to square the 108” backing.
You would use the same technique, but would need to fold the fabric over a few times before cutting it. Make sure to support the bulk of the fabric by using another table or a chair so it doesn't shift when cutting.
What happens when you have to fold over your fabric because it’s 100” long? Beginner here😊 and do you then cut th salvage edges?
If you have regular cotton fabric that is 42" wide and several yards/metres long, then you match up the selvage edges so that the fabric hangs straight down into the fold and then continue to do this for the length of the fabric - this applies no matter the length of your fabric. I sometimes use a chair or table to hold up the length I'm not working on if I am dealing with a lot of fabric so it doesn't pool on the floor and so the weight of the fabric doesn't pull/distort the area I'm working on on the table.
So what do you do if you don't have any selvage edges?
You'll need to have a straight edge on either side and then use the same method. Be sure that your edges are cut on grain so that everything will be nice and square when you trim it up.
I have a round table cloth, I want to make it square. Can you show me how to cut it into a square please?
I would suggest that you decide what size you want to make it, find the centre and measure out half that distance on all sides and draw a cutting line with an erasable pen or pencil.
Ok this was good....starting to see things (I know nothing, brand new) but then what do you do with the wonky selvage edge along the horizontal sides? Thank you
You will be cutting off the selvages before further cutting the fabric. You always remove the selvage edges for quilting.
@@Chatterboxquilts Thank you
I have a horrible time. It's the fold that ends up fatter than I need. I just used 5 inches trying to cut a straight line to cut quilt block
You could also do this with the fabric only folded once - so, 2 layers
That does nothing for straightening the grain which needs to be done before straightening the edges!
It's true that this doesn't straighten the grain of the fabric as you need to do for garment sewing but I've never had any issues with that for quilting.