Question about using glass as cutting board?
#32
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Chula Vista CA
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When I first started a friend gave me a piece of plexiglass to use with my rotary cutter - it did dull the blades and I was concerned about tiny slivers of glass, so found a kit that included a new rotary cutter and a mat. They go on sale from time to time. At the time it was a store called, Fedco, they had all sorts of quilting supplies.
#34
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Maryland
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The fact is, quilting is not an inexpensive hobby. Yes, you can keep certain costs (fabric, patterns, thread, etc.) under control, but the basic tools are necessary. If she can't afford to purchase a mat, then she needs to wait until she can. Rotary cutters and self healing mats are relatively new tools for quilting. If she really wants to get started without those, then I would suggest she use good old fashioned scissors to cut her pieces.
#35
Glass is great if you need a palette for acrylics or if you're cutting out a paper pattern with an exacto knife but a rotary cutter is just too dangerous to take a chance of having it slip and give her a very serious injury. Just think of how many people cut themselves using a rotary mat and imagine how much worse it could have been if the cutter had been sliding on glass. I wouldn't even take a guess how fast it would dull the blade.
#36
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Posts: 421
Why would you do that? You have to put pressure on the cutting mat to cut the fabric, when you put pressure on the glass, what will happen? The glass will break and their will be slivers everywhere. So dangerous. Don't use glass for a cutting mat!!!! If your granddaughter can't afford a cutting mat, why don't you buy her one as a early Christmas gift or a birthday gift? I'm sure she will appreciate it. There are places where we quilters can cut corners, but using a sheet of glass as a cutting surface is NOT one of them.
#38
Pat
#39
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Central Florida
Posts: 242
This sounds like the perfect situation for a 50% off coupon, maybe for one of the smaller mats to start with. I used scissors and templates before I bought my first mat. Granted that was eons ago but I would be worried about safety with the glass.
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