HELP Please with cutting Satin
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I make pageant sashes and use poly satin. The most tedious part is cutting all the strips! each strip is 72 inches long (I shorten them when sewing them together for the different ages)
I just bought a 6x36 ruler which should be perfect and it is for cutting the individual strip but I need to save time. I thought about folding the satin in fourths but am so worried about the layers shifting.
Anyway have any suggestions? TIA
PS: I've been purchasing the "dull satin" which seems to ravel less and also the embroidery seems to stitch out better. But I am definitely open to suggestions for another type of fabric that looks like satin and I want to buy larger quantities. It seems Hancocks is always out of the fabric when I need it most!
I just bought a 6x36 ruler which should be perfect and it is for cutting the individual strip but I need to save time. I thought about folding the satin in fourths but am so worried about the layers shifting.
Anyway have any suggestions? TIA
PS: I've been purchasing the "dull satin" which seems to ravel less and also the embroidery seems to stitch out better. But I am definitely open to suggestions for another type of fabric that looks like satin and I want to buy larger quantities. It seems Hancocks is always out of the fabric when I need it most!
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Do they get stablized? What if you iron that knit tricot on the satin before cutting? It's doesn't add a lot of stiffness to the fabric and it would stop the fraying and some of the slipping. Where the tricot is folded together it wouldn't slip.
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