Are you a "timid" sewist? This episode will start you down the path of comfortably sewing with your handwoven cloth! Share your journey here, with the rest of us ;-)
Season 9 Episode 5 - Pouches & Bag
Season 9 - So Many More Places To Go!
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Sonja Broekhuizen
Cheryl Schwarz
Yes, Yes, YES
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Cheryl Schwarz
I’m so glad to have this episode!!! I’m always looking for more uses of woven fabric. The tea towel drawers of my friends and family are overflowing. While I haven’t finished all the videos for this episode, I have a question about the approach described in cutting the pieces for the bag. Are there any advantages or disadvantages to cutting a piece of interfacing to the woven fabric and then cutting the woven fabric around the edge of the attached interfacing? I’m thinking that affixing the interfacing before cutting the handwoven fabric may help ‘hold back the flames’ of unraveling and ensure more stable fabric cutting. Am I missing something? What are the downsides to this approach?
Thank you for introducing this great topic for woven fabric!!!
I am so happy to hear you are enjoying this episode! Are you asking if there are advantages to cutting a piece of interfacing the same size as your piece of handwoven fabric and affixing it before any cutting occurs? If you are nervous about “the flames” then yes, this could help! I do know some bag makers do this as they feel it speeds up their process. I don’t do this because I’m typically using a combination of fabrics and that system doesn’t seem to make sense in that case. But for handwoven leftovers, it can make sense! If you give this a try, please let us know how it worked for you!
Diane E
I forgot to address the downsides. It will use a smidge more interfacing. That’s about it. If you have extra interfaced fabric when you’re done you can always make another pouch! Or piece it with more fabric to make another….!
Diane E
Cheryl Schwarz
Diane E
A great episode...thanks so much Terry.
A suggestion for another way to form the box bottom corners that I've used for many years is to sew the pieces together as a rectangle (ie. don't cut out those box corners before sewing.
Fold the layers with the center bottom and side seams together to form a triangle. Decide how wide you want the bottom to be and sew across the triangle. Trim and press as desired. You can use the first triangle as the template for the remaining triangles.
Hope this makes sense.
Terry Mattison
marygehling
Yes, that does make sense and is yet another way to do box corners. Thank you for mentioning it. As with many sewing tasks, there are always several ways to do things!
Cheryl Schwarz