Make your own onestringbag

Step 2 Cutting the fabric

The first step and the final size of the bags depends on the width of the material you get. Unless the fabric is flawed in places, or cut a bit crooked by your retailer, the entire fabric will be used to minimise wastage. The fabric will be divided up by folding and cutting. So exact measurements are not all that important - it's about dividing up the fabric into equal pieces.

The example shown here is for a tulle netting 145 cm wide which is folded in half on the roll.
In the image it is shown folded in half already, with the selvage edges together at the top of the picture. (the selvage edge is the sealed edge of woven fabric that prevents it from unraveling.)
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Lay out the fabric on a large clean surface (make sure it is folded in half as shown in the picture). Trim off crooked edges to tidy up the fabric.
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The solid lines indicate a final cut edge, the dotted lines indicate a final fold. This shows where all the cuts will be made. You can use this as the pattern and start cutting or continue folding as shown below to help you make edges to cut.
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Cut along the lower folded edge.
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Fold the right edge of the fabric to the left.
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Weigh down the fabric and cut the right edge along the fold.
(Take a moment to weigh down the fabric to keep it from moving around and going out of line, you might use some weights like books to hold the folded edge flat.)
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Fold the fabric from the bottom edge to the top
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Weigh down the fabric and cut the bottom edge along the fold.
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You will then have 8 pieces of equally sized fabric cut out ready to sew.
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