When a dividing line needs to be straight and ripping the material is not a valid option, cutting a little snip right into the fabric-fold might allow the picking up of a single thread and pulling it all the way out, carefully gathering and easing the woven textile as you go, to end up leaving a clear mark to cut on.
As the Mystery Project‘s border-work is composed out of very long yet narrow pieces of fabric, it would have been a terrible waste to harvest these along the length of the materials when breaking them up into multiple shorter parts could span the width of the roll, saving as much on resources as possible.
Where for this project’s velvet outer-face such orientational choice demands the combination of pieces to be turned into a small work of art, the enclosed padding is much more easily begotten by aligning tapes and merging them with small strips of lining, neatly cross-stitched through front and back.
Having stitched the jagged-line ruffle-sequence into the silk and lining (basted spread-open right sides together), turning them inside-out makes their pleats fall consummately into each-other.
Before doing so, there is still the necessary notching of the seam followed by iron-pressing the slanting edges inwards, in order to obtain discerningly cuspy points.
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