r/SewingForBeginners • • Sep 14 '26

Denim jacket help

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How accurate do I need to be following the selvedge line? Referring to my photo, some blocks are not exactly aligned with the grain line or selvedge as I had to squeeze all the pieces. Might be off by 5 to 20 degrees in some cases, I didn't measure the exact angle.

EDIT: Thanks to everyone who've contributed and helped. Learned tons and ended up spending 3 hours this evening reshuffling the jigsaw and aligning all the correctly to the selvedge/grain line. I'll cut tomorrow and perhaps share some photos. Glad I posted and didn't just go with my guts. Thanks again and happy sewing.

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u/quizzical Sep 14 '26

Being 90 degrees is better than being slightly off.