Fabric Shifting Dailey Quick Tip #4
Help! My pattern piece doesn’t fit in my projection!
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Lately, I’ve seen this question come up a lot in the Projectors for sewing group. What do you do when your pattern piece is bigger than your projection? Some pattern pieces are just huge-the Gala gown from Patterns4Pirates skirt pieces come to mind. Sometimes, it’s more that your cutting mat or your projection is too small. And I decided to make a video answer. It’s this month’s Dailey Quick Tip!
Today, I’m using the Pattern Niche Knoxville Top, Twist version. In my size, even the shirt version is both too wide and too long to fit on my mat in a traditional way. So, I rotated the pattern to fit the width of shirt across the length of my mat and showed you how I marked my pattern and my fabric to move both together and cut the rest of the pattern. I use Frixion Fineliner markers to mark my fabric. (I know, there’s great debate about Frixion pens in the sewing/quilting world but I’ve been happy with them for years. That said, do your research about them and maybe do some tests yourself before you use them on your expensive fabric.) I mark my pattern in Adobe using a line like I show in this video if you aren’t sure how to use the line tool.
And, really, that’s the whole thing. You mark your fabric and your pattern and shift them both to line them back up and finish cutting. Super easy!
Another quick tip to sneak in: When I show the lengthen/shorten line, you can totally use that and shifting the fabric to add or take away length from a pattern without using digital alterations!
