Cutting Fabric for Piping

Video Transcript

"So this is the fabric that I have chosen to make my piping out of. And I'm going to show you how to make a square piece of fabric out of this long piece of fabric. And that's going to be our basis for cutting the fabric into strips. And so the first thing we need you to do, is just fold the fabric in half, and most likely it?s a piece of yardage. A yardage is basically like 48 or 55 inches wide. If you open this up, it would be one of those. And however long you told them to cut it at the store. So this one looks like it?s about two thirds of a yard. It doesn't really matter. I'm making a small piece today, for an example so you can know how to do it. So the first thing you need to do is go to one part and cut the white piece off. Okay, so all the way up to the end. And what we're going to do right now, is we're just prepping the square that we're going to use for the piping. And that's what we need to make is a square. So now that we have this cut off, just hold this end and fold this one all the way over to make a square. There we go. It might be a little bit longer over here. I'm not really worried about that. I can look at my stripes and see that everything is a nice square. So, I'm going to go over here to where this corner meets the end, and just cut it all the way up to the top. And if you were going to make a lot of piping, you would make a larger square. You would have more fabric. For this video, we're just learning how to make it. So we're just going to have a small square to work with. I'm going to fold this up, and I'm just going to fold this away and put this away. Because we don't need that today. So, let?s look at this, and now we see that we have a square. And in the next part, the next clip, I'm going to show you how to start marking this and making your strips that you are going to need."