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Okay, now we are ready to make our angled piece. You are definitely going to want to
put an angled piece in your skirt if you want to have any kind of twirl to it. And what
I do is I take one of the strips that I made, this is about half a yard, or excuse me, this
is a yard cut in half, the lengthwise because you always want to keep the stretchy part
to the smaller pieces. So the stretchy part should be the shorter part. Because the more
you have to stretch on, or the more you have to sew on the stretchy part, the more likely
you're going to have errors. What you do is you lay it out flat, and this is just something
I found through trial and error that works great. Whoops. Get your, so this side you
want to leave it so it's overhanging on both sides, right here, and that is so you have
a little bit of material at the top to put it in. So you don't want to fold it exactly
in half. And then you're just going to go ahead and cut it all the way down. Now this
is one time you cannot rip it because we're not going, we're going at an angle on the
material. So this is one time I'm forced to use the scissors. But since I love making
skirts enough, I don't mind. Keep your hand on there to hold it so it doesn't pull out
funny. If you have any little minor errors you can always adjust when you're going down
the sides, and when you're done. This only works also with material that is the same
on both sides. If you do this with a patterned material you will need to do it twice because
otherwise you will have two pieces that face this way, and what you need is a piece that
will face each way, both ways. Like that. So when you're done it should look something
like this, one straight edge and one angle.