Cutting Silk Jersey

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Wed, 03/21/2012 - 11:17
crista
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I recently cut out a pattern using a silk jersey fabric and found that the delicate and very stretchy nature of the fabric meant that even though I carefully layed out the pattern on top of the fabric and pinned very carefully. When it came to unpinning the pattern the size of the piece cut was at least an inch and a half smaller all round. I made several attempts, all came out the same and I wasted a lot of very expensive fabric. eek!

My cutting table has quite a high sheen to it and I was wondering if the table itself didnt help.

Any advice on how to do this best would be much appreciated.

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Mon, 03/26/2012 - 17:41
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Nehzat
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RE: Cutting Silk Jersey

Dear Crista

Most likely when you layed your fabric on the table, it was stretched and when you layed the pattern on top and cut the fabric, the cut pieces became smaller than the pattern pieces. When you place fabric on the table, make sure it's it not stretched. Maybe getting help from someone when laying the fabric will make it easier.

 

Most of the time stretchy materials need to be cut smaller because they stretch to fit. You can do a fitting first to see how it fits, it may still be ok.

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Nehzat

 

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