Fortify Your Pattern Pieces for Longevity!

The easiest way to do this is to lay the brand new pattern sheet wrong-side DOWN on the fusible side of the interfacing, but that’s not always possible is it? (In my case, it’s almost impossible since my pattern pieces are in the process of being developed!)

I recently did this with the pattern pieces for a design I’ve been fiddling around with for a while and obviously they were NOT pre-organized into a pattern sheet, so here’s how I did it at left.

Once again, lay the pieces wrong-side DOWN on the fusible side of interfacing, BUT… you have to be more careful how you fuse your pieces in place in this scenario because there’s likely to be some fusible areas of your interfacing left uncovered and you sure don’t want to gum up the surface of your iron, right?

Here’s all my pieces lined up on the fusible side of the interfacing on top of a towel (instead of my ironing board). All I need do now is carefully fuse the center area of each piece with my iron.

After doing that, I carefully flip this whole area face down onto the towel and give the whole unfusible side of the interfacing area a good, full pressing. (DO give your pattern pieces a quick check to make sure they’ve stayed in place and haven’t shifted out of place.)

And just so you know, the interfacing I use for this procedure is Bosal Fashion Fuse, which is a cotton woven interfacing. It’s by no means the only interfacing you could use.

I DO however recommend using a cotton woven interfacing as opposed to other “paper-type” interfacings because in so doing your pattern pieces will maintain flexibilty, fluidity and be MUCH more resistant to tearing, shredding and permanent creasing, especially after folding them up and storing them after each usage.)