Re: bias cut skirt

"Liz Hall" <lizhall@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> of  wrote:
>"Steph Peters" <incm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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>> "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.
>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
I am saying that you have to be consistent.  A straight skirt has to be
cut
so that the vertical fall of the skirt is on the straight grain.  A bias
skirt has to be cut so that the vertical fall of the skirt is on the bias,
i.e. diagonal to the grain.  If you cut different pieces of the skirt at
different orientations on the fabric they won't hang properly when sewn
together.  You will probably get away with some other orientation provided
all the pieces are consistent.
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