Kitsie

Some advice for "preserving" your mat... unless I am using the grid lines for measuring use a ruler for measuring and cut in any direction on the mat! This will avoid a lot of problems with ruts as will using a small mat piece (cut from an old big one) for trimming such things as HSTs.

Also if you are just cutting a straight line use the "back" edge of the ruler, it saves a lot of wear and tear, too.