Originally Posted by
Onebyone
Maybe not weird but different. I bought a four foot and six foot straight edge 2 in wide rules from Lowe's. They are metal and will lay flat on the quilt top. I can mark down both sides and have my starting lines exactly right and straight.
I have the same metal rulers from Lowe's and use them all the time for quilting. I especially love them for measuring vertically and horizontally across my quilt tops in order to figure out what size the borders should be. Just lay the ruler across the quilt, align the end up with the edge of the quilt and it says in place. On a large quilt you can even put them end to end in order to get the correct measurement. Just need to add the 72" and whatever is on the smaller ruler together.