Originally Posted by
Geri B
With long rulers...I was taught to hold your ruler on the fabric, with your fingers like spider legs and stop cutting when you just pass those legs, reposition your fingers down that ruler and then cut again. In reality it means you are putting full pressure exactly where you are cutting and there is no shifting...it has worked for me all these years... Can't be in a "hurry"
This is what I generally do as well. I also have little rubber dots on the 4 corners of my ruler to help keep it from slipping. Another thing that I have preached for a long time and actually remembered to practice this weekend - put painter's tape on my ruler for the size cut I need so I am more consistent with my cutting. Definitely helped. Now only if my original blocks had been better constructed...sigh.