Cutting question please
#53
![Default](/images/icons/icon1.gif)
I have done both but I haven't seen where you actually use the selvage in projects. Good idea, I'll have to look that up. My family had always saved it in the long strips to tie up tomato plants and flowers and things like that, since it doesn't stretch. Just another recycle tip.
#55
![Default](/images/icons/icon1.gif)
I wash my fabrics with the salvages still on. I press before cutting my fabrics and I cut the salvages off before cutting the fabric into the required shapes for my pattern. By cutting the salvages off before cutting you won't make any errors in measuring you pieces of fabrics.
#59
Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
Posts: 251
![Default](/images/icons/icon1.gif)
Funny you should ask. Tonight using black fabric I noticed that I forgot to cut off the selvage and incorporated it into the square I was using... Will now have to recut. I try to not cut the selvage off until I need to do so but think in the future I will ALWAYS cut it off on pieces where it isn't very, very clear.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
nevrn
Main
3
02-05-2011 09:42 AM