I don't know about you, but cutting fabric is one of my least favorite parts about sewing. I love having a design idea in my head and I LOVE sewing it together, but the cutting......not so much.
I was reading my most recent issue of "Sew News" magazine and they had a great idea that I thought I would share with all of you. Typically when you are working with a pattern, you will pin it to your fabric and then cut it out. Well, their tip was to use washers (like the kind your find in the hardware store) to weight-down the pattern pieces. Genius, I say!! Why didn't I think of this?! This helps to stabilize the pattern pieces so that they don't move during cutting.
So now I simply weight down my patterns onto my fabric and use my rotary cutter to cut them out. And if you don't use a rotary cutter to cut your patterns, you must! As painful as I find cutting patterns to be, it makes it go 10x's faster.
The next time you are sewing from a pattern or even if you are trying to simply trace something, grab some washers.........it is a seriously good thing!!
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