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Lightening… I love that… my love of stripes and cheap fabric…

I will check out that link and also look at the idea of soaking and stretching to match it up a bit.

But so frustrating. Especially since I made a bunch of bland boring solid skirts to be a base for school clothes, and this was supposed to be the “fun” skirt!

Nicole, I will…[Read more]

Hi Nicole and Renee, Thank you both so much for your responses! So it looks like you fold it to the top of the waistband ( not over to the facing side) , edge stitch, and cut the remainder off on the underside of the loop ( just like the directions indicate but the pictures you sent clarify ).
Thanks so much, as always, for your help!

Hi Nicole and Renee, Thank you both so much for your responses! So it looks like you fold it to the top of the waistband ( not over to the facing side) , edge stitch, and cut the remainder off on the underside of the loop ( just like the directions indicate but the pictures you sent clarify ).
Thanks so much, as always, for your help!

Hi Nicole and Renee, Thank you both so much for your responses! So it looks like you fold it to the top of the waistband ( not over to the facing side) , edge stitch, and cut the remainder off on the underside of the loop ( just like the directions indicate but the pictures you sent clarify ).
Thanks so much, as always, for your help!

Hi Nicole and Renee, Thank you both so much for your responses! So it looks like you fold it to the top of the waistband ( not over to the facing side) , edge stitch, and cut the remainder off on the underside of the loop ( just like the directions indicate but the pictures you sent clarify ).
Thanks so much, as always, for your help!

You could try this method

Click to access 4_204_straightening_fabric_grain.pdf

I remember my mum trying to do something similar when I was a child.

My love of stripes and cheap fabric has led me to this problem a couple of times.
With the fabric wet you may be able to realign it so that the selvedges meet and the stripes are vertical, or maybe not.
I would cut so that the striped pattern is true and figure that a small degree off straight grain is workable.

…and the image..

This is one I recently made with the top of the loop folded over and sewn to the top of the waistband.

Good memory Sarvi.

Yes, that was me and it was so frustrating. I ended up cutting the body to grain and cutting the cuff to the pattern but then interfacing the whole cuff so it was a bit more stable.

A few more details 🙂 http://fiveandcounting-motherof5.blogspot.com.au/2014/09/art.html

Does this help Purl?

Please let me know if I can be of anymore help.

~Nicole~

Apologies for jumping in, but I did this myself somewhat recently and after agonizing over it quite a bit I realized I was making something very simple unnecessarily complicated. I took her school folders and set them on a piece of freezer paper and drew a rectangle with rounded corners around them, eyeballing a bit extra room. I made the…[Read more]

I haven’t encountered this myself, but I remember Nicole making something .. I think it was a shirt for Hugo? where it was printed off grain and it was super annoying. Can you tug/steam it into shape a bit? I’m not sure how much you could ameliorate it before the animals looked really skewed.

@mama_knowles – Sharon, did you ever do this? How did it work out? Advice if you did it?

@mama_knowles – Sharon, did you ever do this? How did it work out? Advice if you did it?

A cardigan or jacket pattern for girls that is good for casual wear and can look more dressy in fancier fabrics.