Perfect Interfacing - How To Block Cut For Better Results
All kinds of things can go wrong when applying interfacing to fabric, be it distortion of the fabric, shrinkage, curling, misalignment of the fabric & interfacing, differences in the shape of the fabric piece and interfacing piece caused by natural variation in the cutting process or just accidentally ironing it to your ironing board cover - there’s a lot of room for error.
Many tutorials show the technique of cutting out a pattern piece in fabric, doing the same with interfacing, and then applying the cut interfacing to the cut fabric. Although you can do this and get good results, it can be tricky to get just right, especially for beginners.
However, there’s a very simple technique that can make things much more clean and reliable, with a pretty good chance of near perfect results.
Let’s take a look at block cutting.
For this example we’ll use a couple of Yoke pieces that require interfacing. All the images I’m using here come from the tutorial video of the Midhurst Skirt. We’ve also edited that down into a short video that just focused on the block cutting and interfacing, so you if you prefer video you can watch that via the link below, otherwise skip past and I’ll take you through this simple process in this blog post.
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