This reminds me of the time when I was going on a weekend retreat (not the quilting kind :cry: but needed to finish the binding on a quilt - so I took my sewing machine, cutting mat, etc. A well meaning friend stuck the mat in her trunk with all our other stuff - thinking she'd known to put it on the bottom so it'd lay flat I did not check to see (FL sun/heat) - - - should've - had to go buy a new one when we got home - never told her I couldn't get it straightened out...