Marking & Cutting Fabric for A Coin Purse

Video Transcript

"So if you remember what I told you we need to cut a piece of fabric that is 12 inches to 7 1/2 inches. The first thing I do is kind of look the way that the fabric was laying and these look like little tiny roses or bubbles. I'm not quiet sure what they are but they are really cute but I like this fabric. But I think that I want the coin purse to be this way so if you look at it I want it to be laying like this. As oppose to laying like this so I'm going to cut 12 inches this way and 7 1/2 this way. Let me get started measuring that. I have a little bit of edge right here but I'm not worry about that I'm just going to put it right here where the fabric starts and it is 7 1/2 and we would measure 12 inch up. Just about right here and I'm just going to cut it out. There we go and if you need to, you can do a lot more exact measuring than what I do. I have been doing it for a long time so I feel confident with just cutting where I know I have to cut. This is the purse that we are going to be working with. This is the way that the zipper is going to fit in just like this. So after we do let's start cutting the lining out now. "