Keep It Together
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I've been preparing some kits for an upcoming workshop, and in the process I did something new that made my life a bit easier. Naturally, I want to share that new idea with you all.
Setting the Stage
One of the kits I've been preparing has been a Cheshire Cat:
This layout is intended to prepare four Cheshire Cat kits at one time. I've indicated this for my own reference by changing the outline color for each group of pieces. All pieces with a yellow outline go into one kit. Same for green, red, and blue.
For this upcoming workshop, however, I need 16 of these kits. That means I need to prepare enough fabric to cut four layouts on the machine.
What's New
What I did differently when preparing the fabric is that I did not cut the fusible swatches apart after ironing to the fabric. Normally, I would iron the fusible swatches to my fabric and then cut them all apart. This time, I left them together, as you can see here:
This turned out to be a boon when treating the fabrics with my diluted mod podge because instead of having four small swatches to treat, I instead had one larger swatch. This simple change saved a ton of time.
After the fabric was dry, I was able to cut the swatches apart without an issue.
Any time I need to cut multiple copies in the future, this is my new go-to method.
