Getting Ready to Sew Name: Directions: As you read Part 3 Lesson 8-11 (pages 486-497) in the RED Clothing textbook, answer the following questions. Later you can use this study guide to review for the mid-term. 1. Why are pattern pieces usually larger than the body measurements of the size they fit? 2. How can it be useful to make a chart comparing your measurements with those listed on the pattern envelope? 3. When measuring pattern pieces, what areas should not be included in your measurement? 4. How can even a minor error in measuring case problems when adjusting a pattern? 5. Summarize the main steps to lengthening a pattern piece at an adjustment line. 6. What is the largest amount that a garment can be adjusted at the side seams? What must be done for larger adjustments? 7. How do you decrease pattern width at a waistline? At the hip line?
Getting Ready to Sew page 2 Directions: Multi-sized patterns for shorts are shown below with three sizes 1, 2, and 3. Suppose you are following size 2. On pattern A, mark in colored pencil where you might draw a new cutting line to get more room in the waist and less in the hips. On pattern B, mark cutting lines for a smaller waist and larger hips. Then answer the questions that follow. 8. How much wearing ease would you expect that the designer built into this garment at the waistline? At the hips? 9. If you wanted the waist to be 1 inch (2.5 cm) larger, how much would you increase each side seam? Why? 10. If you wanted longer shorts, describe how you would lengthen the lower edge of the pattern. 11. For properly fitting clothes, what advantages do you have when sewing garments rather than buying them ready-made?
Getting Ready to Sew page 3 Directions As you continue to read the lesson, answer the following questions. 12. How can you straighten uneven ends of a woven fabric if you can t see the crosswise yarns? 13. How can you straighten the ends of knitted fabrics? 14. Why is it a good idea to preshrink fabric? 15. What is the main difference between the lengthwise grain and crosswise grain? 16. How would you cut fabric to give a garment the most stretch? 17. How can you see whether a piece of fabric is straight? 18. Why is it important to know whether a center folder can be pressed out of a piece of fabric?
Getting Ready to Sew page 4 Directions: There are typically four steps involved in preparing fabric for a sewing project. Answer the questions at each step. STEP 1 Straighten fabric ends. 19. Why is this step necessary? 20. Which method is best for 100% cotton? Why? STEP 2 Preshrink fabric. 21. Which method would you choose for 100% cotton? Why? 22. What risks do you take if you omit this step? STEP 3 Straighten fabric gain. 23. How can you check whether fabric needs to be straightened? Whether your fabric is off-grain? 24. Why might you be unable to straighten the grain? STEP 4 Press fabric. 25. Why is this step necessary? 26. What should you do if you are unable to press out the center line?
Getting Ready to Sew page 5 Directions: As you continue to read the lesson, answer the following questions. 27. What precautions should you take when working with a fabric with a similar right and wrong side? Why? 28. Why is the right side of the fabric usually folded inward for layout and cutting? 29. What additional step do napped fabrics need when folded crosswise? Why? 30. Why wouldn t a sofa be a good surface for a pattern layout and cutting? 31. Which pattern pieces should be pinned on your fabric first? Which should be pinned after those? 32. What should you do to cut two pieces of fabric from one pattern piece on a single fabric layer? 33. What points should you check after laying out pattern pieces? 34. Explain how to lay out pattern pieces for a fabric that has uneven vertical stripes.
Getting Ready to Sew page 6 Directions: Jenna is preparing to make a jumper. Follow the progress of her project and fill in the blanks with missing information. 35. Jenna identifies the right side of her knit fabric by stretching its cross-wise cut edge. She knows it s the right side of the fabric because the edge? to that side. 36. She marks the right side of the fabric with?. 37. She locates the correct cutting layout for her fabric width on the pattern guide sheet and? it. 38. Jenna chooses the? -nap layout because her fabric has tulips with stems that shouldn t be upside down. 39. Jenna folds the fabric? side out so she can easily match the floral pattern. 40. After checking for straight grain, she pins the layers of fabric together at the?. 41. She works at a(n)?. 42. She starts by pinning the? pattern piece on the fold. 43. The cutting layout for her jumper shows one pattern piece that is? so she places it printed side down. 44. As she positions pattern pieces, she places pins at? to the pattern edge. 45. In the corners, Jenna places pins?. 46. She tries to? the floral pattern in the fabric by lining up notches on the jumper front with the corresponding notches for the back of the garment. 47. Jenna pins the jumper back pattern piece to the fabric and measures from the? on the pattern piece to the edge of the fabric. She notes that the measurement at one end is ¼-inch (6 mm) more than at the other end. 48. Jenna shifts the pattern piece until the grain line is perfectly straight and then she? it again. 49. Before? the pattern pieces, she pauses to count them.
Getting Ready to Sew page 7 Directions: As you continue to read the lesson, answer the following questions. 50. What is directional cutting? 51. Why do you need to mark fabric pieces after cutting them? 52 Why don t you need to mark seam allowances on fabric? 53. Briefly explain how to mark fabric using a marking pen. 54. How do you choose a color of tracing paper that leaves permanent marks? 55. How are a tracing wheel and tracing paper used to mark symbols? 56. Summarize the procedure for using tailor s chalk.
Getting Ready to Sew page 8 Creative Solutions 57. A friend in your clothing class discovers she doesn t have quite enough fabric to lay out her pattern. She is discouraged as she shows you her partially laid out pattern and asks whether you have any ideas about what she might do. Think Creatively. What suggestions can you give your friend that might help?