Re: bias cut skirt

Are you saying you cannot cut the fabric across the grain to give extra 
width, sometimes you have to slew it round if the stretch is down the
fabric 
as it seems to be many times now.  I have done this many times without 
problem
Liz
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> "Liz Hall" <lizhall@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>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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