Subject: [h-cost] measuring question for pleats Dear list
Is there a simple way of measuring/marking fabric that is 94cm wide and need to have a piece of fabric 194cm wide pleated onto it, where the pleats are inverted and all need to be the same size? Bye for now, Aylwen _______________________________________________ Yes. Don't worry about measurements. Pin the ends of the two bands together, about where the seam allowance will end up.. Find the middles of both pieces of fabric, and pin them together. Find the middles of what's left and pin them together. Repeat until your pins are about as far apart on the shorter piece of fabric as you want your pleats to be. Since you're doing inverted pleats, find middles and pin one more time. The last bit is harder to explain than it would be to demonstrate: manipulate the fabric into the inverted pleats you want. Okay, the shorter piece I'm going to call the band, and the looped longer piece is the bubbles. Smooth the first two bubbles together, up tight against the second pin. (The first pin is about where your seam allowance will be. The second pin separates the two bubbles) Flatten your inverted pleat and pin to the band. Continue with the rest of the pleats. Emma _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
