Our foremothers practiced the art of piecing to get the biggest bang for their buck. During the Great Depression, my grandmother was able to make a particular blouse design with one yard of 36-inch-wide fabric. She loved being able to ball up the leftover scraps in the palm of her hand. This could only be achieved by careful piecing: sewing together the large scraps left between some cut pattern pieces to create enough whole fabric to cut the remaining pieces.
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