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Straightening Fabric Techniques

 

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    Fabric may need to be straighten for two reasons:

   When purchasing fabric it should have been cut on a weft thread. 

  Fabric needs to be straightened when sewing garments.  Your fabric might not be straight most likely because it was bad cutting by the clerk, or because it could have been "twisted" or "pulled" out of line on the bolt by the manufacturer.

   To straighten woven type of fabric, snip a little cut at the selvage edge and then rip or tear to the other end.  Pull thread until one long thread goes from one end of the salvage to the other.  Also for woven fabrics you could get a pin, find a thread near the cut end, and pull it until it is from one end of the salvage end to the other.

   To straighten corded type fabrics use a square or ruler and set at a right angle to the selvage edge. Mark with chalk.

    For jersey and knit fabric, follow one line of stitch across the wrong side (ugly side) and mark that line of stitching with pins.

    If you fabric is not straight because it was "pulled" out of line on the bolt by the manufacturer, pull the fabric diagonally (on the bias) so that the threads are drawn into a line and the edges of the straightened end lie evenly together.

  

 

 
 

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