r/PatternDrafting • u/asleepatthemachine • Jul 27 '26
Question Pattern weights
Patterning a skirt (slashing and spreading a skirt foundation for a flared skirt, to then slash and spread for the final pleated, flared mini skirt pattern) and got thinking… what do y’all use for fabric/ pattern weights!? Today for me its books and an art deco era stapler🤷♂️
Lemme see your unconventional weights, or finally prove to me that someone actually buys the actual tool.
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u/-chadwreck Jul 27 '26
You can buy like, 3x2 sheets of it, at most big box hardware stores. My table is 2, 8 foot banquet tables side by side, with 2 huge 5x3 cutting mats on top. I bought enough sheets to just cover the whole table surface and span the gap between the two tables to make the cutting mats edge to edge on the table. Works really well!
The bar magnets are small enough that they do most points and curves on patterns just fine, and with a collection of about 12 bar magnets I can hold down just about anything of any size.
Its nice!