Kalbeliya Costume, Part III, Cutouts Tutorial
Cutouts are ready!
Here is a tutorial on how to attach a circular trim with cutouts onto a circular skirt. All of the thumbnails are clickable, and if you click on the bigger picture it will open up the original file, big enough to see the details.
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- Use short rectangular pieces of fabric 2cm wider than the desired width for allowances
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- Pin the rectangles to each other making sure to leave allowances on both sides
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- This is how the right side looks like after you are done
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- Stitch the rectangles together
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- Trim the excess fabric
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- Fold and iron the allowances and pin to the fabric along the outer arch ( the longer one). Do not pin first to the shorter arch, the trim will most probably sag.
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- Stitch to the fabric. I wanted to add some silver trim as well, so I just stitched them together.
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- Trace your pattern on the trim, mine is just a simple diamond shape. Pinch the fabric in the middle of the diamond and make a small cutout.
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- Don’t be tempted to make the cutout bigger yet, it will cause the fabric to sag and skew
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- Stitch along the other arch
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- Now is the time to trim the excess fabric and make the cutouts larger. I also made four cuts towards the diamonds’ vertices to fold the allowances in. Lastly iron it out.
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- Stitch the cutouts to the fabric
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- Ta-da!!!
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- Cutouts are ready!
12 Jul 2009 Sophie