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Harold Imports Intruder Mesh Cutting Glove, Small $8.99 Whether chopping vegetables in the kitchen, cutting sharp materials in the workshop, or dressing game in the field, the Cut Resistant Glove by Intruder is designed to reduce your risk of injury. Its highly-advanced construction combines a cut-resistant stainless steel core wrapped in a hi-tech interwoven polyester and vinyl material. Protection that is comfortable to wear yet resistant to stains a… |
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Quilt fabric by South Sea Imports. Cookie Cutter Christmas, 43235-173 Quilt fabric by South Sea Imports. Cookie Cutter Christmas, 43235-173 Christmas stripe quilt fabric… |
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OLFA 9654 RTY-2/DX 45mm Ergonomic Rotary Cutter $12.45 The 45mm Quick-Change Rotary Cutter a rolling razor blade used to cut materials into shapes, strips and pieces for craft projects. The Quick-Change Rotary Cutter has an easy blade change with just a single click. No more assembly with a washer and a nut. Just slide the locking mechanism and the blade immediately releases. The innovative spilt blade cover allows for switching hands effortlessly wit… |
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OLFA 9653 RTY-3/G 60mm Straight Handle Rotary Cutter $2.92 Olfa Standard Rotary Cutter-60mm. OLFA-A 60mm rotary cutter that is great for heavy fabrics. OLFA’s largest rotary cutter can easily and accurately cut up to 6 layers of fabric. Especially useful for heavy fabrics. Uses replacement blades sold separately. Caution: Blade extremely sharp! Use blade cover when not in use. Color: yellow…. |
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IIT 1-3/4 Inch Carpet Knife & 2 Piece Carpet Blades $8.49 This 1-3/4″ (45mm) Carpet and Quilting blade quickly and easily cuts materials into shapes, stripes and pieces with quilting, carpet, carpet pads, tarps, and canvas. So efficiently does it slice that it can cut through five layers of fabric. The blade is extended and retracted with a trigger, ensuring that it won’t accidentally cut anyone. Also included in this package is a refill pack with (2) ad… |
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June Tailor 20-Inch-by-23-Inch Shape Cut Pro Ruler $47.13 Shape Cut Pro Ruler. This ruler is perfect for use with your rotary cutter and mat (sold separately). This ruler features a large size grid to accommodate the full width of fabric. 2-1/2″ slot increments to cut strips for Jelly Rolls. Cut 5″ strips, rotate and sub-cut for perfect 5″ charm squares. Layer and cut multiple fabrics for a quick cut for class projects and kits. Ruler measures 20×23″ and… |
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Quilt Fabric Cutter Questions
SEWERS-QUILTERS–HELP!!!!!I I am going to start quilting and someone told me to invest in a rotary cutter…..
a lady at Joann Fabrics suggested rotary scissors to me. Regular scissors were hard to use after awhile so I purchased spring handled scissors. They were easier but it is still hard to get as straight as I want to be. The rotary scissors are a little expensive considering you need a surface board, measuring board, cutter and blades.
Any suggestions???? Does anyone have one??? What kind and do you like it??? I really don’t want to spend too much.
Thanks for your replies.
I have scissors and I have rotary cutters (plural). Each has its purposes.
Will you be piecing by hand or by sewing machine? In either case, the actual stitching line is *far* more important than the cut edge of the fabric. It’s now routine for machine-stitchers to go-on-automatic and stitch a set width from the cut edge. This makes precision of cutting critical for them.
If you’re doing this for relaxation, rather than as production sewing, hand-piecing may be preferred, in which case the marking of stitching lines becomes critical, let the margins fall as they may, as long as there’s enough for sturdiness.
If you want portability for cutting, scissors are still the primary choice. With rotary cutters, there’s also a necessity of clearing a largish flat work area.
If this is for relaxation, don’t cut everything all at once. Make a list of what needs to be cut and check items off as they’re completed. Then you can continue from where you’d left off later, without taxing your wrists on a cutting binge. The older rotary cutters have been known to promote carpel tunnel syndrome when over-used.
I have several mats and three rotary cutters. One is just used for paper. The one that gets used most often for fabric is the smallest one and is packed in a zippered bag with a 4″x6″ mat and a 4″ clear ruler/square.
I also have a 3′x6′ mat under the tablecloth on the dining room table. It’s been years since I’ve used it as a cutting mat, but it’s out of the way where it is and that’s something.
If you can afford it, I recommend getting a ruler/square as large as your usual largest block (including seam allowances. For most people, this would be 12.5″ square. Get a cutting mat larger than that and one rotary cutter. Even if you did everything else with scissors, it’d still be a good investment just for doing a final trim to get blocks to precise size before joining for a top or whatever. The rotary cutter is a blessing for trimming blocks “to size”.
Beginner Quilting – Learn the Art of Bargello Quilt
If you like something of a visual treat then Bargello quilts are such ones. Once to start admiring the craft that goes into making of a Bargello quilt you will always remember to admire this quilt type.
It’s simple to make and also like a treasure. Beginners could be in for a surprise when they find that it’s simple to make and the results shall make to feel proud too. Even the basic knowledge of operating a rotary cutter lining up with a ruler and general knowledge of using a sewing machine, one-forth seam stitch specifically.
This art of Bargello making is easy and you should try it some time soon. Here’s what you need to do-
list of items you need :
* A Standard sewing machine
* Stitching needles – general size 12
* Iron
* A Rotary cutter
* Spray starch
* Needles
* Pins- beaded head
* Cutting Mat
* The material for fabrics could be in 7 different shades (plain as well as printed)
* Quilt batting
* Material for binding borders.
* Rotary ruler
Material for binding borders
instruction to make :
1. A single color would not be bad at all as multiple colors can have that overdone effect. Cotton as fabric shall be the best bet. Cloth used for binding purpose should be of contrasting color, as it will lighten up the border looks. Prewash the cloth, dry it up and iron it with starch.
2. Keep all things like pattern and design simple so as to avoid difficulties later on in creating it. A wave pattern shall be easy. Here is what you will have to do for a wave pattern. Also aid from quilting software can be handy.
3. The strips have to cut three and half inches in length of the fabric, from cut the strips 3.5 inches wide of the fabric. Fabric with fold is to be faced towards you and then to be cut 2.5 inches strips of every fabric . Cut the fabric one at a time if you are a beginner.
4. Thereafter sew the fabric strips to join them, use a ¼” seam gap and 15 stitches every inch. That will give you a three inch wide space at the end of the strip. Lay some weight over the fabric, which will settle the seam in order, and thereafter the fabric will remain steady.
5. Now lets cut the strips as well. Place the fabric on some sort mat where it can be cut. Take a gauge of three inches and trim the strip with such measure as to get strips in color blocks. You will find hard to join al the strips so it should be easier to take a proper measure and then cut them precisely as required.
6. Take the strips and put them on a board in a manner where the material of the 2nd strip is one square beneath the first one. Do this for 5 times again and again till the sixth time, then put the 6th strip parallel, seventh one above the sixth square. Now put more strips counting till number ten in ascending order.
The row are staked like this starting from 1 to 5 in decreasing order, 5 and 6 parallel & 7 to 10 in increasing order. When stacked together it gives you a wave. Repeat this process as many times as you like to.
7. then stich the strips in order. that makes your piecing. then apply batting and thereafter the fabric back pack . qulilting over the quilt is to be done , around each squareso that the lyers are in place after every layer is proper. Then cut theimproper borders and apply the binding cleanly around the fabric.
Thats it! you are done.
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, written by experienced crafter, Jennifer Walter.
