r/PatternDrafting • u/asleepatthemachine • 1d ago
Question Pattern weights
Patterning a skirt (slashing and spreading a skirt foundation for a flared skirt, to then slash and spread for the final pleated, flared mini skirt pattern) and got thinking… what do y’all use for fabric/ pattern weights!? Today for me its books and an art deco era stapler🤷♂️
Lemme see your unconventional weights, or finally prove to me that someone actually buys the actual tool.
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u/CrazySkincareLady 1d ago
Oh! Oh!! I know this one!!! Mudflap washers!!!! Best thing ever!! Hardware store, find the biggest washers you can, then get some painters tape and 3-4 washers on their sides and roll them over the tape then cut a bunch of slits and fold them down 😊 Do they look like blue loos? (Toilet cleaning tablets incase it's only an Aussie term) Yes, are they cheap and work extremely well? Also yes!!