It makes a diffrnece as it needs to be 25" long and it looks like a big dresden plate ruler. Maybe if your Joanns doesn't have one in, you might be able to ask them to order it for you. Our Joanns doesn't have them. Had to order online and I got mine from the same site as you did. Huggies, Fay..........your fisrt cut will be 21 1/2"