Get your fabric on grain and prepare for cutting and sewing

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Should you wash your fabric before sewing? Learn 3 reasons you should! What is fabric grain? Learn all about lengthwise grain vs crosswise grain, plus how to find the grainline on your fabric. Learn everything you need to know to prepare fabric before sewing. • 7 Must Have Sewing Tools: Confused about the tools you need to get started? This helpful PDF guide from Sew Sew Lounge details the basic tools you need to start sewing now. Buy the essentials and stop wasting money on tools you won't use right away. • Click here to sign-up for your free guide: • https://sewsewlounge.com/7-sewing-tools • Hi, I'm Toni! Welcome to Sew Sew Lounge! I teach sewists basic sewing techniques to build skills and grow. Learn to sew one pattern at a time. • I started sewing in college when I majored in Textile Apparel Design. There were years of sewing disasters and embarrassing low grades. Learning to sew was a long process of trial and error...LOTS of errors...and seam ripping! But after all that I can now sit down and sew commercial patterns and ones I’ve designed myself. • At Sew Sew Lounge, you'll find step-by-step beginner sewing techniques, tips, and all the info you need to start sewing and lay the groundwork to sew whatever you want! • Timestamps • 0:00 Intro • 0:07 Welcome to Sew Sew Lounge • 0:16 Why you should wash, dry, and iron your fabric • 0:30 What is sizing? • 1:18 Get your fabric on grain • 1:26 How fabric is made • 2:10 Why you need to know about fabric grain • 2:38 What happens to a garment when the fabric isn't on grain • 3:36 How to get fabric on grain • 3:58 Close-up cutting across selvage • 4:45 Tear across the width of fabric • 5:38 Fabric tears along the true grain line • 6:38 Iron the top edge of fabric • 7:48 Fold fabric in half across width to match selvage • 8:16 Pin selvage together while keeping top edge lined up • 9:36 Continue to pin down the length of fabric • 10:58 Iron fabric, pushing towards fold • 12:26 Close-up bottom edge of fabric • 13:10 Cutting the yardage you need of a project • 14:46 Buy a regular yardstick and mark 1/4, 1/3, 1/2 etc. to measure fabric • 16:16 Cut across selvage to tear fabric to 1 1/4 yard • 17:30 Conclusion

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