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Sewing Quick Tip:

If you don’t have quite enough fabric for your pattern layout, here are two things you can try:

1. Spread your fabric out in a single layer instead of doubling it. This will give you more flexibility in
arranging your pattern pieces and you may be able to squeeze them all in. Just remember to cut
opposites of the pattern pieces you’ll need two of. You may even want to create two of each paper
pattern piece to make this task easier.

2. Try placing some of your pattern pieces on the “cross-grain” of your fabric (perpendicular to your
fabric’s selvedges). Just keep in mind that fabric cut on the cross-grain may hang differently than fabric
cut “with the grain."

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Sewing Quick Tip:

To camouflage a
mismatched plaid
in a garment
you've sewn, try
covering the seam
with a band of
contrasting fabric,
ribbon, or bias
tape. This will
make the
mismatch much
less noticeable and
add a nice design
element to your
garment.
Sewing Quick Tip:

To strengthen
ribbing that has
stretched out of
shape, treat it like
a casing and insert
a piece of wide
elastic through it.
Cut a vertical slit
through the wrong
side of the ribbing
and insert the
elastic through the
ribbing then
slipstitch the
ribbing closed.
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