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How to Measure Your Diamonds for Fabric on a Deep Buttoned Headboard

You'll learn a couple of techniques on how to measure the size of your diamonds for your fabric and the allowances you need to make for the fabric

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Lesson Description

In this video you'll learn a couple of techniques on how to measure the size of your diamonds for your fabric and the allowances you need to make for the fabric to drop into the holes and we'll show you our preferred technique.

You'll learn the importance of gridding your sizes on to the back of the fabric to follow when you are upholstering a deep buttoned headboard like this one.

We have broken the video down so you can easily find the section you want, here are the time stamps:

00:57 - Measuring how much fabric you'll need
02:31 - Adding dacron
04:42 - How to measure the diamond sizes for the fabric and allowances to make
11:35 - Gridding the diamond sizes on to the fabric

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