Cutting improved - new flat surface
I seem to remember a thread a while back about cutting mats and getting them clean, and blades wearing out, and now I can't find it, but, it did make me think that sometimes even with a fresh blade I was having trouble cutting on the table in my sewing room and the dining room table gave better results. Well, I remembered I had a great big piece of a side of an IKEA cabinet left over from the kitchen remodel. So I had Mr. Stitchnripper lug it up to the sewing room and I put it on top of the table I normally use (one of those white ones from Costco or Sam's) and put my cutting mat on top of that. Wow, what a difference. It doesn't "give" at all, very stable surface and I was able to square up my quilt in no time flat, with an old blade and one slice through!! So my takeaway message is that sometimes the middle of our tables give a little when we are cutting and the blade doesn't make the best of contact so we have to go over it multiple times. I'm pleased right now!!