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From: Pudge99
Date: 01-12-2006, 03:45 PM (1 of 10)
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Ok I think that is what it is called. OK so here is the deal I plan to make the mystery jacket in the Sewing Savvy magazine. The instructions are to cut your fabric scraps into one inch strips. Does it matter which way the grain goes? I couldn't find it anywhere in the instructions.
Gina
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From: dmoses
Date: 01-12-2006, 04:00 PM (2 of 10)
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Hi Gina, Is there an email address for the magazine? Maybe you can send your question off to them and they could get the answers for you. I know that the crosswise grain usually has a little give to it, but I don't know if that would affect your particular project. I have been looking high and low for my magazine...I must have put it away somewhere during the Christmas rush, and now can't find it. I am very curious about this mystery jacket. Good luck! 
Take care,
Donna |
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From: carman
Date: 01-12-2006, 04:48 PM (3 of 10)
| as long as its not on the bias it will not matter. i cut whatever saves me on fabric, unless its on a curve for binding then i bias cut and even then only partly, enough to give me stretch. |
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From: DorothyL
Date: 01-12-2006, 09:14 PM (4 of 10)
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I did that kind of strip piecing and made an effort to cut it all on the grain. It just made sense to me that they all be the same direction and with the grain is just natural to me. Maybe you don't have to do it that way but if you can -- well why wouldn't you, especially with such a large project. Dorothy |
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From: beachgirl
Date: 01-12-2006, 09:36 PM (5 of 10)
| I just looked it up, well partly. It states that if your useing fat quarters to cut the strips the length of the fat quarter. That would be on the bias. Fat quarters are 18X22 so the 22" long strips. I won't argue with that person that wrote it but I'd do mine on the straight of grain except aroung the arm holes. I could be wrong but makes more sense to me. E-mail or phone & ask them then let us know what was said. I'll read the whole deal later. |
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From: carman
Date: 01-12-2006, 10:09 PM (6 of 10)
| cutting a fat q on its length DOES NOT MEAN BIAS a fat quarter is a half meter/yard of fabric and then is cut in half, on the fold, making it approx 18 X 22 that would make it cut on the grain, but in quilting there is VERY little difference, except when it come to bias and then that is a very stretchy thing to deal with. |
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From: beachgirl
Date: 01-12-2006, 11:20 PM (7 of 10)
| Carman, take the lenghth ( 22") and pull it taunt. It stretches. That isn't the straight of grain. It might not be a true bias of course but is harder to sewfor straight strips on something like were talking about. It's a jacket & who would want that type of stretch from shoulders to the bottom edge? Not me. I really don't care how anyone else sewsbut not me. The selvage in on the short ends & I do know how fat quarters are cut. I've cut plenty of them as well as bought them. |
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From: dmoses
Date: 01-13-2006, 09:42 AM (8 of 10)
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Hi Gina, I found my magazine...  The writer says that if you use fat quarters, you should cut them into 1" x22" strips...that is the crosswise grain. If you are using scraps, I suggest that you try to cut them all in the same direction, either all crosswise or all lengthwise. From the strips, you will be creating a piece of fabric from which to cut your pattern pieces, and you wouldn't want any distortion due to variations in grainline. It is better to be safe than sorry...  Have fun with your mystery jacket!
Take care,
Donna |
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From: Pudge99
Date: 01-13-2006, 10:44 AM (9 of 10)
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So what I am getting from most of you is that crosswise or lengthwise it doesn't matter as long as they are all cut the same way? If I cut it crosswise it will stretch more but I will be backing it with a piece of muslin so it probably won't matter. Ah, now to go through the scraps and figure out which way is which. I think I am gonna pause on this for a moment and make some scrubs for my friend. Those at least I think I know what I am doing. Thanks everyone for your help! Gina
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From: LeapFrog Libby
Date: 01-14-2006, 03:10 PM (10 of 10)
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The crosswise grain is still considered straight .. The lengthwise grain has no stretch or very little.. Crosswise has a little more, but think about this.. When you lay out a jacket pattern, you lay it with the lengthwise grain going up and down.. This means that you have a little crosswise stretch in every jacket you make, right ??? It does NOT make it stretch like a bias cut does.. Cut some test strips and stretch and measure them.. Quilters traditionally cut strips on the cross grain all the time on all the programs I see on TV..
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