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Roll and pleat tips
A trick for making consistent and
straight roll and pleat in an efficient
manner is to take a large panel and
stitch the pleats without cutting individual
sections. This prevents the pieces
from shifting as you sew. For example,
for 2-inch pleats using a ½-inch seam
allowance, stitch at 3-inch increments
to set the folds. For a five-pleat panel,
cut your piece 15 inches (5-by-3-inches)
wide. Once you stitch the fold lines,
hinge the material good to good on the
fold seams and stitch a ½-inch seam allowance.
This will create 2-inch pleats.
We prefer to remove the extra seam
allowance, trimming away roughly
¼ inch so the pleats lay flatter.
This system not only keeps pleats
very consistent, it is also fast. We
use ¼-inch sew foam. You may
need to experiment and adjust
sizes if you are using a different
thickness of sew foam, but the
process will remain the same.
Jeff Newkirk, MFC, is the owner of Precision
Custom Canvas Inc., located in St.
Catharines, Ont., Canada. He has been
a canvas and upholstery fabricator
since 1997 and started Precision Custom
Canvas in 2014. The company has
grown from a home-based business to a
2,500-square-foot shop and showroom in
2016, and to 5,000 square feet in 2022.
" Although we are a
digital company....
for a small set of
cushions, it is faster to
get out the pattern
plastic and take a
physical pattern.
Traditional skills are
always valuable! "
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