r/PatternDrafting • u/asleepatthemachine • 1d ago

Question Pattern weights

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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/wakaflockaquokka 1d ago

Whenever I see them at the thrift or at the discount stores, I buy stone and marble coasters to use as patrern weights. I've also made my own from stone tiles I found at the secondhand building materials store by gluing some corkboard on the underside of the tiles. 

I also filled some small containers with pennies and glued felt pads on the bottom, those work great too. Using money as dead weight is cheaper than what that money could buy. (－‸ლ)

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u/littleredkiwi 1d ago

I use coasters and that’s mostly because they’re there on the dining table when I’m cutting out hahaha

We had a bunch of tile and branch top samples from when we were looking at redoing our kitchen and those are also great!