Why Do I Have to Buy New Rulers for Every Quilt?
#42
Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Pflugerville, TX
Posts: 230
I honestly don't think we really do need new rulers... It's as if we have a collective reputation for being bad in geometry and math, which I refuse to believe we are. We used to use templates and/or work out our own angles, and we can still do it. Different types of triangles are not rocket science!
I admire those who can do Algebra, etc.!
#43
Heavens sakes - we don't need rulers at all! Quilters used to just cut out pieces of fabric and make them fit. Or use templates made from used cereal boxes. I'm sure there was once a discussion of "why do we need this pizza cutter thing when we have scissors!"
Haha! But don't ask me - I'm a sucker for a new ruler or template! I love to have a variety of tools and if one of them helps inspire me to make something new, then I'm in!
Haha! But don't ask me - I'm a sucker for a new ruler or template! I love to have a variety of tools and if one of them helps inspire me to make something new, then I'm in!
#44
Super Member
Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 1,165
I bought a few - not for angles, etc. - but non-slip accuracy! I've always had to add the sandpaper and other dots.
The Truecut rulers DO keep the rotary cutter from waving all over, but I had to add dots to those. I think the table might be a tad high - but it's either back or the ruler, and I choose back.
So far, the Quilters Slide lock is the only thing that works.
The Truecut rulers DO keep the rotary cutter from waving all over, but I had to add dots to those. I think the table might be a tad high - but it's either back or the ruler, and I choose back.
So far, the Quilters Slide lock is the only thing that works.
#45
Super Member
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: New Orleans, La
Posts: 1,768
If you can afford it why not? As many have stated, we don't need all of this. I guess you can ask the same question as to "Do you really need a Stash?" It's a choice. I was told by one of my therapist that I had an Engineering brain, go figure, but I was raised where we didn't have access to stores, so we devised getting it fixed, or to work with what we had. I do the same in anything I do. I will look around and figure out what I have to make it work. To me the challenge of that accomplishment is far greater than the finished product.
#46
Personally, I but what I want when I want. Been sewing for over fifty years, and just brought the ruler to supposedly make triangle cutting easier. Made it harder. You are your own person. As long as there is no one holding a gun to your head, and telling you what to buy Go our own road. May you have good luck in your quilting.
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