Cut and Sew Steps

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How to cut Fabric ?

You have your pattern. You have your beautiful fabric and you want to get on with sewing it. I know that cutting is something you want to get over fast. But there are more to cutting than using the scissors to cut the fabric. That is if you are really serious about sewing.

Sloppy cutting will result in sloppy garment. That is guaranteed. Get some basic knowledge of cutting and you are set to go. A professionally finished garment requires that you cut accurately and precisely.

What are the ESSENTIAL tools you need for cutting the fabric

A long pair of fabric scissors which is at least 8 inch long

There are two kinds of scissors -Bent handled scissors which has an angled handle that lets you cut comfortably. Then you have those scissors with a blunt point on the upper blade which prevents it from tearing the fabric.

Pinking scissors

This is the one you use when one is too lazy to finish the fabric edges properly. This scissors gives a nice zig zag edge to the fabric edges and this will stop all ravelling of the fabric threads.

There are some materials which you can cut with this scissors and use it as it is like a fleece and faux leather

Rotary Blade.

If you are not familiar with this blade, just imagine a very sharp pizza cutter. The blades are available in different sizes. Be extra careful with these blades. They could run away with your fingers if you are not careful. Also using this one with out a mat beneath the material you are cutting could ruin your cutting surface. A clean smooth edge is the advantage of using this cutter. Cutting through many layers of fabric with precision is a breeze with a rotary blade. This kind of cutting is impossible with scissors.

Ways of your fabric

Let us learn about how a fabric is constituted before learning how to cut it.

A fabric is made of warp threads and weft threads woven in a pattern. Warp threads are found along the length and the weft threads along the width.

All Fabric have grain lines which denote the length and width of a fabric.What we call the width of a fabric has the unfinished edge of a fabric. This edge frays and this is the edge which we cut.

The length of the fabric is the finished edge of the fabric. This edge on either side of the fabric is also called the selvedges or selvages.Selvages usually have small perforated holes along the length. For printed fabric selvages are mostly plain.