Skill Guide: Cutting Cloth with Confidence

• Before You Sew
  • Steps to Take Before Cutting
  • Two Approaches to Stabilizing
• Fulling Before Sewing
• Fun with Fusible Interfacing
  • What is Interfacing?
  • Decisions and Limitations
• Projects to Try
• Next Steps: Level Up Your Skills

Have you dreamed of sewing items with your handwoven fabric but then balked at the idea of cutting it apart? If so, you're not alone. Many weavers worry about how to stabilize their fabric once it's been cut. Fortunately, there are plenty of tips and tricks you can use to keep your fabric together.

Today’s Skill Guide will give you a solid foundation in cutting and stitching your handwoven fabric. As you read, you’ll learn about:

• Straight stitches
• Basting stitches
• Fulling fabric
• Fusible interfacing

Every item we’ve selected for this guide is part of your All Access program and will help you get the most out of your subscription. Check out the Little Looms Library and our video course website for more learning opportunities.

Happy Weaving,

Christina

Before You Sew

Adapted from Designing to Weave and Sew by Jean Scorgie

Cutting into handwoven fabric for the first time is often traumatic. Your mind fills with visions of raveling and disintegrating fabric following each cut of your scissors. You conjure up remedies such as gluing edges and stitching several times to keep the edges intact.