Hold a pattern steady while tracing and cutting it by filling film containers with sand and using them as pattern weights.
It’s not a cheesy sewing joke-plastic 35mm film containers are truly worth their weight in sand! You’ll save yourself the trouble and aggravation of trying to hold a pattern steady while tracing and cutting it by filling the containers with sand and using them as pattern weights.
Submitted by: N. Shriber, Springfield, Virginia.
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