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Nice idea - I never thought of that.
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I never thought of that. Your a prayer answered. I make a lot of applique and while I'm working on them they tend to unravel around the block edges. Thank You FayZ
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:o good idea
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I think I will try that. It sure looks neat.
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Good idea. I have serged some of my grandkids quilts.
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I was going to say that I have used the pinking blades for years with no problem, but all my cutters are the Olfa ergo so that may be why I have not had an issue.
I too have used the blade to cut the edges before I wash, but I have not tried to cut the blocks. Thanks for the heads up. |
What a great tip! thanks! I have to get mine out.
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Originally Posted by QuiltnLady1
(Post 4617094)
I was going to say that I have used the pinking blades for years with no problem, but all my cutters are the Olfa ergo so that may be why I have not had an issue.
I too have used the blade to cut the edges before I wash, but I have not tried to cut the blocks. Thanks for the heads up. Glad you guys found this useful. I'm using a regular Olfa cutter, and the pinking blade fit it no problem. -Kate |
Thank you for sharing. I would gladly give up all the strings and threads all over everywhere. I will have to try it.
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Originally Posted by Canada Kate
(Post 4600159)
Yes, I used a ruler to cut my fabric. The pinking blade is a zig-zag, so part of the rotary (the "zig" part) butts up against the ruler when cutting, and part of it (the "zag" part) is a few millimetres away from the side of the ruler. The "zig" part hits the ruler in the same place that a conventional rotary cutter abutts the ruler.
When I was sewing the 1/4" seams, I used the outermost part of the cut fabric to align my seam to. There are parts of the fabric that are, indeed, a bit smaller than the edge, and that part is closest to the machine needle. The outermost part of the fabric edge is still closest to the right hand side of the machine, in the same manner as a conventionally cut, straight-line fabric would be. I aligned my 1/4" seam using the outermost edge. By doing so, my 6" blocks turned out to be perfectly 6.5" before I sewed all the blocks together. I use Triangulations to made half-square triangles - see a demo of this at http://www.connectingthreads.com/tut...ideo__D30.html - and when I cut them apart I used pinking shears just to see if it would be any different than using my pinking blade on the rotary cutter - it's not. This is why I'm now sold on cutting everything using a pinking blade. |
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