Pinking rotary blade?
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#15
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Ohio
Posts: 952
Olfa makes one and I love it. I wash my material before I quilt it (I know let's just not get into that discussion here) and I use the rotary pinking blade to shave off the cut ends of the fabric. It does a wonderful job and doesn't fray when washing and going through the dryer. I found when I first started and washed then it is easy for me to know which fabric has been washed by the rotary cuts on the ends. I do iron the fabric when it comes out of the dryer and sometimes it is hard to tell which is new and which is washed but with the zigzag ends, easy to tell.
#16
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Northern Michigan
Posts: 12,861
i use my pinking blade every now & then- i've never damaged my cutting mat with it..it is pretty sharp- you do not have to push down hard to use it. It comes in handy when i have a fabric that the edges want to fray.
#18
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Southfield, Michigan
Posts: 286
Olfa makes one and I love it. I wash my material before I quilt it (I know let's just not get into that discussion here) and I use the rotary pinking blade to shave off the cut ends of the fabric. It does a wonderful job and doesn't fray when washing and going through the dryer. I found when I first started and washed then it is easy for me to know which fabric has been washed by the rotary cuts on the ends. I do iron the fabric when it comes out of the dryer and sometimes it is hard to tell which is new and which is washed but with the zigzag ends, easy to tell.
#19
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Saratoga, Arkansas
Posts: 1,909
Canada Kate, I had wondered about this, but i just couldn't imagine how to measure the 1/4" seam. It still seems to me the inside of > next to the ruler would be the place to measure from since that is where the straight cut would have been. But I am definitely going to experiment with this. Thanks for the info and demo.
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