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Jenerates Seam Circles

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Buy the Seam Circles from Jenerates. Use these unique interlocking circles to add or subtract seam and hem allowances on your sewing patterns. The kit contains circles from 0.5 cm to 3 cm (or 1/4" to 1") and there are two centre hole options for each: small for a pencil, and large for a fabric pen.

They are very easy to use. Just keep the edge of the circle on the pattern line. It doesn't matter how you keep it on the line - roll it along a ruler, push it with your other hand, guide it with your finger - whatever works is the right way! The trick is to focus on the edge of the circle and not on your pencil. If you need more than the largest circle, draw one line then use that as your guide to add another.

Seam circles are great for:

  • patterns that don't have seam allowances (Fibre Mood magazine, Burda magazine, etc.)
  • drafting facings
  • removing seam allowances for hacking
  • adding seams to self-drafted patterns
  • marking your sewing or topstitching line for precision sewing
  • drafting echo quilting lines
  • marking pad stitching lines
  • drawing rounded corners
  • and more!

Made in Scotland from 4 mm thick cherry wood veneer. Packaged in a hand-stamped aluminium tin (110 mm x 70 mm x 15 mm).

Choose between metric and imperial measurements.

Metric kit contains:

  • an interlocking set of circles: 1 cm, 2 cm, 3 cm
  • 1 x additional 1 cm circle
  • 2 x 1.5 cm circles
  • 2 x 0.5 cm circles

Imperial kit contains:

  • an interlocking set of circles: 3/8", 5/8", 1"
  • 1 x additional 3/8" circle
  • 2 x 1/2" circles
  • 2 x 1/4" circles
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J Scott
Successfully used for the first time recently!

I had a set of these as part of a Christmas present but most of the patterns I use include seam allowances already. When I bought a Petits D'Om pattern from The Fold Line I had to add my own - it was a bothersome process but these seam circles definitely made it easier.

Running them along a straight edge was of course very easy, while running them against a curved edge was trickier - Jen does give suggestions on how to do this and I got the hang of it in the end. (You use the short end of a ruler or similar and you make some marks every so often, rather than trying to rule a continuous line.)

I did find I needed to use quite a thick ruler or straight edge to run the circles against; if you have a very slim line ruler that is not have a big form factor in depth, then the circles can easily start to 'climb' the ruler instead of running smoothly against the edge of the ruler.