Originally Posted by spiffy
I was just watching Eleanor Burns Quilt in a Day program. She was putting together her American Barns quilt with a checkerboard border. She was using a wonderful strip quilting tool that I love. I've spent a lot of time online looking for it, but can't find it anywhere.
It was a large sheet with slots 2 1/2 inches apart. You could cut accurate 2 1/2 in strips in just seconds with this ruler, template, cutting tool or whatever it's called. It looked like the measurements were 24x24.
I found something similar on the Quilt in Day website:
http://www.quiltinaday.com/shoponlin...lay.asp?i=1884
but I know what Eleanor used was larger because she folded her fabric in half and was able to cut the entire length of fabric and it was also square.
While I was looking I also found this great resource:
http://www.softexpressions.com/softw...ndexRulers.php
I hope someone knows where to find this because it would certainly save a lot of time while ensuring accuracy. Thanks for any help you can give me.
Don't know where to find it, but let me warn you---------with all the slots in the ruler-------------make darned sure you mark the slots you are going to use.
I have a 24" ruler with slots. If I'm not real careful,I'll put my blade in the wrong one then cut a piece of material that's less than I need, or more. If you are tignt on your fabric allowance, you can't be wasting a whole strip that isn't teh correct width. Painters tape or something easily removed works well.