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Skirts and Grainlines

But what if you don’t have quite enough fabric? What if you changed the grainline slightly, would it make much difference? Here we test what would happen to the fall of a skirt if the grainline is changed. Using the same simple four-gore, flared skirt pattern three skirts made – each cut on a different grainline. See the difference for yourself.

Skirt No 1 – The centre of the gore is cut on the

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