Cutting fabric accurately
05-17-2010, 07:29 AM
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When cutting fabric how do you line up your fabric edge with the lines??? Do you do it the same with every cut, like inside the line, outside the line or middle of the line??? I took a class on precision piecing and she said to always put the edge of the fabric right in the middle of the line... On the Omnigrid ruler there is a tiny space between the lines and she said to have the fabric edge just showing in that space... I have been doing this and it seems to be making my piecing much more accurate...
05-17-2010, 07:35 AM
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If that's what works for you then by all means do it. I just cut and try to figure it all out later. Not really, but I don't usually stress too much over it. Then again, I don't usually stress too much about anything. LOL
05-17-2010, 08:26 AM
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Have you tried using your ironing board? Just take the padding off or put a wide board on it then your cutting board. That way the sleeves and excess of the shirt will hang off and not be in your way or pushing the fabric you're trying to cut. Might work, sounds like it would but I haven't tried it either.
05-17-2010, 08:36 AM
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Originally Posted by sunshine0411
I am having the hardest time cutting these days. I am trying to use old shirts that my husband loved to make him a quilt. It is very hard to cut them correctly. Anyone have any suggestions?
It's not a video, but it might give you some ideas -
http://www.ehow.com/how_5252790_cut-...lt-fabric.html
05-17-2010, 08:42 AM
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Originally Posted by luvrazz
When cutting fabric how do you line up your fabric edge with the lines??? Do you do it the same with every cut, like inside the line, outside the line or middle of the line??? I took a class on precision piecing and she said to always put the edge of the fabric right in the middle of the line... On the Omnigrid ruler there is a tiny space between the lines and she said to have the fabric edge just showing in that space... I have been doing this and it seems to be making my piecing much more accurate...
Which also makes it more "interesting" if trying to work with several people -
I also noticed that after cutting - due to the space between the cutter and the edge of the ruler, that most of my pieces are "slightly" larger than whatever the template is.
My blocks are reasonably accurate using the my current methods. Some people are using devices (I think?) like accucut and the strip cutter template thingy (someone will know the name of it) and I'm wondering if those end up being more or less "exact" And, if so, do the seam allowances need to be more "scant"
(I worked with people that thought 0.005 inch deviation was sloppy) Don't even want to think about procedures that require accuracy to millionths or zillionths of an inch.
Good question - I've wondered that, too.
05-18-2010, 06:23 AM
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No matter how well I cut, it still has to go the machine, and that is my problem those darn 1/4" seams. Been quilting for years, I keep hoping I will make one perfectly, but it has not happened yet. I will keep trying though.
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