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Five women are gathered in a room with wooden flooring, working with fabric and sewing materials. One woman sits on a wooden stool at an ironing board, pressing a piece of green fabric with an iron. Four other women sit on the floor around her, sorting through and handling various pieces of colorful fabric laid out between them. A large basket filled with fabric sits nearby, and shelves holding bags and other items line one wall. A sewing machine is visible on a table to the right, and a whiteboard is mounted on the wall in the background.
  • 4 took part
  • 1 facilitator

Wednesday 9 September 2026

Stitching unit update: fabric cutting and template size correction

Facilitated by Shabana K H

What the work needed: people, time, money, space and materials.
What went in
Cardboard templates, fabric, an iron and a table, cutting tools and measuring tools.

What was done with those inputs, step by step.

Today we finished cutting all the remaining fabric from yesterday. We ironed the templates first, then used them to cut the fabric.

We measured a few cut pieces at random to check accuracy. We found a size difference. The cardboard templates were thick, so the marked size on the fabric was about 5 centimetres instead of 4.5 centimetres.

To correct the size, we reduced the template size to 4.1 centimetres. This gave us fabric pieces of 4.5 centimetres.

We then corrected all remaining pieces we had cut at 5 centimetres down to 4.5 centimetres.

Finally, we mixed and matched the cut pieces to check the colours and designs worked together, and that the cutting patterns worked as intended.

What the activity directly produced: sessions held, people reached, things made.
  • Fabric pieces cut to 4.5 centimetres. Templates reduced to 4.1 centimetres.
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