I decided to make the front of my jacket with curved edges so I pulled some plates and bowls from my cupboards and decided that an 8 inch (lunch size) plate worked the best.
I chalked around the edge of the plate
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Stitched just to the inside of the line to hold the patches in place after I cut
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Put the plate back on the line and run the rotary cutter around it
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