Re: bias cut skirt

"Liz Hall" <lizhall@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> of  wrote:
>Basically I made my own pattern from my basic skirt pattern opening out 
>folded piece into a front and back and marked a bias.  When I come to cut

>the fabric it has to be opened out and sometimes slewed around to get the

>fullness in even worse if it has a pattern or nap. 
What do you mean by slewed around?  A pattern has to be cut with the
fabric
selvedges in the right orientation.  If you rotate a pattern piece to fit
the fabric you have then you aren't cutting on the bias and the skirt will
not hang properly.  A bias skirt inevitably means buying a larger piece of
fabric than a non-bias one and having a lot of unused fabric because of
the
cutting orientation.
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