How to cut perfect strips of fabric for your quilts with the Stripology Squared ruler
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ส.ค. 2024
- In this video, I'll show you how to save time when cutting WOF (width of fabric) strips for your quilts! I'll answer your questions about how, when, and why to use starch, and recommend the fastest ruler for cutting strips!
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Gudrun's ruler is indispensible. I have the stripology xl. I consider myself a rabid evangelical regarding spreading the word on this extraordinary tool. If you value accuracy and your time this ruler pays for itself. I also employ the STS (starch the _ _ _t) method. I make my own starch and put in spray bottle with a high quality nozzle.. I'm too cheap to spring for other products. Dry erase markers are great to mark rulers. Also the post it flags work well and much easier than washi tape. Plus I seem to have accumulated a lifetime supply. Reusable and repositionable . Thanks for your video.
Yes yes YES! Clearly we are kindred sewists!
@@GeekyBobbin Hah! You are a better sewist than I am...but I'll put my geek up against any!
Mam this scale buying any link mam please
BTW, to add to my comment, I've seen at least five different ways to use the ruler, including using the diagonal lines PLUS the parallel ones!
I'm having trouble inserting my rotary cutter in the slots; I'm using the right kind, either 45 or 60. Also, why can't you line up the fold with a ruler line, and then cut your strips after you've cut at the zero line to straighten the side? Wouldn't the right triangle you've created govern every cut after that? Straightening the fabric underneath the ruler to get perfect parallel lines seems unnecessary and awkward. It's also easy to measure one of the dotted or solid think white or black lines, but when the line switches out of the square-up section of the ruler, I don't know how to line up. One part of the line is thick, and the other is thin.
I get you on the thick thin line thing..yeah... Getting cutter into slot it is best to angle it- but yes it is easy to feel you cut the ruler on entry. Either way its a brilliant piece of kit though
Thanks for this video. I've been struggling with folding the fabric perfectly straight to eliminate the "elbows" in strips, so this is very helpful. I'm wondering if tearing the fabric to find the straight of grain would also help to square it up. Thanks again!
That's certainly another option, but not always practical, as it does mean a bit more waste.
Thanks for the video, its kind of hard to hear you unless I turn up the volume. When I do that and the music plays, it's very loud. Just thought I would mention that 🙂.
Thanks for the feedback! I'm still figuring out how to get audio levels just right.
@@GeekyBobbin well better you than me, I would be completely lost Haha 🙂. You go girl!.
I really liked you suggestions on cutting but I don't like the music. it's too loud.
Lesson learned!
I realise I've been lazy. I know this but don't do it. good reminder