Exactly what I wanted to know explained perfectly in under 3 minutes! Too bad you didn't continue making videos, I hope you are safe and sound and doing great in life! Thank you so much for this amazing piece of information!❤
Thank U so much! New sewster here, and my teacher at college didn't explain this step very clearly, so thank u for the short and sweet "on grain" tutorial!
I saw this from a Fashion and Design book and it's illustration is exactly as what was shown on the video. The single thread is align from end-to-end of the selvage
This fabric is Amy Butler's Midwest Modern Honeycomb. I'm not sure if it's still being manufactured, though I know I've seen some yardage available on Etsy and eBay.
I bought three yards of fabric but don't know how to cut them down to the length I need to work with, I wanted to make a tank dress for my daughter and I only need 21 inches in width by 21 inches in length. I am knew to to this as you might notice by how I wrote my measurements out Lol!
I cut a piece from a larger cloth so i ripped all the sides of the rectangle to be sure they were straight but when I folded it It wouldn't fold straight. How can that be?
Hi! Appreciate your information so much. Can this tearing method be performed on rayon challis. I've got a piece of fabric with no salvage edges at all. Thanks, Patty
Yes! I like to prewash all my fabric and press it first. Pressing the fabric allows greater accuracy when you cut your pattern pieces. Otherwise a wrinkle in the fabric could cause your pattern piece to be misshapen, which would then affect the way the final garment fits.
This doesn't work if you are doing fashion sewing. You need to make markings on the wrong side of the fabric from the commercial pattern so that you don't ruin the public side with stray marks.
No, it is not bad advice, it is how we get fabric on the grain. It it just important to know what fabrics you can and cannot rip. This looks like a cotton / cotton blend fabric and is fine to rip at an inch to put it on the grain. I have been making a lot of summer dresses and skirts with cotton blend fabrics and do this with each piece of fabric before I lay out my pattern pieces and cut. It has never destroyed the weave of my fabric. My dresses and skirts do not shft around because they have been cut perfectly on the grain.
Thank you for explaining this. I’m a beginner sewer and most other channels don’t start with the basics.
Welcome, newbie!
You are a star for explaining that so eloquently and what a great tip for making end of fabric equal. Really appreciate it.
Exactly what I wanted to know explained perfectly in under 3 minutes! Too bad you didn't continue making videos, I hope you are safe and sound and doing great in life! Thank you so much for this amazing piece of information!❤
Thank U so much! New sewster here, and my teacher at college didn't explain this step very clearly, so thank u for the short and sweet "on grain" tutorial!
Thank you. I’m a beginner sewer and this has helped me understand how to set up fabric.
Om-gosh!! Thank you so very much for this tutorial. Your the only one I actually understood where ~ to cut the fabric!!!
right. .so helpful.
Yay! Glad it helped you.
This is what I learned ages ago or to pull a thread across but that was tedious! Good job!
Thank you so much! I've ruined lots of fabric so this is very helpful!
Thank you so much to show how to lay out your Fabrics to cut.
I saw this from a Fashion and Design book and it's illustration is exactly as what was shown on the video. The single thread is align from end-to-end of the selvage
Love the fabric you are using in this tutorial - care to share what it is and where I might get some?
This fabric is Amy Butler's Midwest Modern Honeycomb. I'm not sure if it's still being manufactured, though I know I've seen some yardage available on Etsy and eBay.
Found this very helpful. I’m a beginner
thanks! great tip
would appreciate you showing a pattern piece laid out on the straight grain and then on the cross grain and then on the bias.
Will the rip method work for Silk as well?
What happens if it’s not ‘rippable’ fabric? You can on do this with cotton!
Thanks so much
I bought three yards of fabric but don't know how to cut them down to the length I need to work with, I wanted to make a tank dress for my daughter and I only need 21 inches in width by 21 inches in length. I am knew to to this as you might notice by how I wrote my measurements out Lol!
I cut a piece from a larger cloth so i ripped all the sides of the rectangle to be sure they were straight but when I folded it It wouldn't fold straight. How can that be?
you only rip one side not all sides...plus make sure you are going selvage to selvage when you fold.
This is good info. Thankyou.
Hi! Appreciate your information so much. Can this tearing method be performed on rayon challis. I've got a piece of fabric with no salvage edges at all. Thanks, Patty
That's a good question. I think it should work on challis, since it's a lightweight woven fabric.
Thank you
Thank you so much.
Thankyou! 🌿💖🌿
This fabric has 1 side selvage marked. How should the fabric fold? Thank you.
You would line up the printed selvedge with the other selvedge in the same way I did in the video.
Do you press all fabrics you buy for sewing?
Yes! I like to prewash all my fabric and press it first. Pressing the fabric allows greater accuracy when you cut your pattern pieces. Otherwise a wrinkle in the fabric could cause your pattern piece to be misshapen, which would then affect the way the final garment fits.
thank you! very helpful
awesome. thanks for the video !
super helpful!
Wow! Thank you so much! 😎
Awesome! Thanks!
My problem is I need a huge table lol.
so helpful. .😉
What about knit fabric
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I new to this
Why u make markings on the front side? its totally wrong.
GO GATORS 🐊!
This doesn't work if you are doing fashion sewing. You need to make markings on the wrong side of the fabric from the commercial pattern so that you don't ruin the public side with stray marks.
Yes! Thank you for pointing this out.
Madam very fst u r telling
NEVER EVER rip fabric. Thos totally destroys the structure and integrity of the weave of the fabric. This us very bad advice.
No, it is not bad advice, it is how we get fabric on the grain.
It it just important to know what fabrics you can and cannot rip.
This looks like a cotton / cotton blend fabric and is fine to rip at an inch to put it on the grain.
I have been making a lot of summer dresses and skirts with cotton blend fabrics and do this with each piece of fabric before I lay out my pattern pieces and cut.
It has never destroyed the weave of my fabric.
My dresses and skirts do not shft around because they have been cut perfectly on the grain.
so helpful. .😉
so helpful. .😉