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TASK 3: Prepare Master Pattern & Cut the T-Shirt
1 Choose an appropriate material. Most t-shirts are made with knit fabric, but you may wish to choose a knit
fabric with a fairly low amount of stretch to make the sewing process easier.
2 Wash the fabric. Wash and dry the material as you usually would before you do anything else with it.
• By washing the fabric first, you can pre-shrink it and set to dry. As a result, the pattern pieces you cut
out and sew together should be more accurately sized.
3 Take the Paper Pattern for the T-Shirt.
4 Add seam allowances to each piece. Use a flexible ruler and pencil to carefully draw another outline around
the current perimeter of each piece. This secondary outline will be the seam allowance.
• You can choose a seam allowance amount you feel comfortable with, but as a general rule, using a 1/2
inch (1.25 cm) seam allowance should give you plenty of room to work with. (Fig 1)

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CITS : Apparel - Sewing Technology - Exercise 38 & 39